Unit 3: Creation

Topic and Purpose

Now is the time to develop a lesson for a blog and a rubric that goes along with it of your own. You have the terminology down, multiple sites you can choose from, and examples of effective activities and lessons with blogs to inspire your ideas!

Learning Objectives

• Learners will develop an educational blog of their own
• Learners will develop an educational rubric for their created blog

Lesson 1: Blog

Learning Objective

• Learners will develop an educational blog of their own

Review

Review all of the past articles, websites, and videos in each of the past lessons. Some are posted here:

Do

Create a lesson for a blog as a teacher that could be used in your current class or a future class. Upload a link to your blog lesson to My Blog for the rest of the class to view and see.

Reflect

Peer review a fellow classmates' blog lesson. Give them suggestions on what works well, questions you may have that need clarification, and any suggestions for change.

Lesson 2: Rubric

Learning Objectives

• Learners will develop an educational rubric for their created blog

Read & View

Rubrics are a tool that identifies needed and required criteria for an assignment, task, or project. Rubrics should set up the learning outcomes so it can easily be determined how grades are given. According to Wolfand Stevens, rubrics are "a scoring tool used to evaluate a performance in a given outcome area based on a list of criteria describing the characteristics of products or performances at varying levels of accomplishment." Please read the rest of the article, The Role of Rubrics in Advancing and Assessing Student Learning, to gain a better understanding of the importance of rubrics.

Click on this link to view article The Role of Rubrics in Advancing and Assessing Student Learning

Read and view the following materials about rubrics. Some are articles about developing effective rubrics, while some are Power Points, and others are examples.

1. Click on this link to view the Rubric Template

2. Click on this link to view the Discussion Rubric Example

3. Click on this link to view the Rubrics PowerPoint

4. Click on this link to view Multiple Sites

Do

Now that you have become more familiar with rubrics, your task is to create a rubric that goes along with your blog lesson or assignment. It could have to do with the posts, the commenting, or any other aspect your wish to include in your lesson! What the rubric is specidically for is up to you, just make sure it is clearly stated in the heading.

Upload your rubric as a comment in My EduBlog.

Reflect

To wrap up this mini-course, I would like you to reflect what you have learned and done as a whole. Use the following question prompts to guide your discussion post in the DISCUSSION Forum:

• What have you learned about the use of technology in the classroom?
• How has your view of blogging changed since taking this course?
• What are some benefits of blogging for students in the classroom?
• What are some concerns of blogging for students in the classroom?
• Do you think you will or will not use the lesson and rubric you developed? Why or why not?
• What about this course did you like the most?
• What about this course did you like the least?
• Would you reccommend this course to a friend?

Naviagation

Move back to: Unit 2: Use of Blogging

Return to:Introduction to Blogging

Refereces

An Online Journal Devoted To Teaching Excellence. "The Role of Rubrics in Advancing and Assessing Student Learning." The Role of Rubrics in Advancing and Assessing Student Learning 7.1 (n.d.): n. pag. The Journal of Effective Teaching. 2007. Web. 8 Dec. 2014.

"Art Rubric for Verbalization on Art." Art Rubric for Verbalization on Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.

Reineke, Martha. "Introduction to Rubrics." CHFA SOA Committee. 2007. PowerPoint Web.

"Rubric Template." Rubric Template. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Dec. 2014.

Template. "Creating Rubrics." UNI.edu (n.d.): n. pag. Web.