Evaluating Student Blogs
Blogging in the classroom represents a new and interesting set of exciting opportunities along with frightening concerns. The ability for students to write their thoughts online for the world to see can be a frightening proposition. Many new Web 2.0 tools have mitigated that concern by offering the ability for teachers to control publishing and also to control who sees the content. Even with those concerns addressed, there is also the concern with grading all of that material.
Fortunately there are a number of resources to help teachers grade all of that content. Karen Franker (2015), from the University of Wisconsin, really helps to cut through all of the clutter. She utilizes a rubric that rates students on a scale of Unsatisfactory, Limited, Proficient and exemplary (Franker, 2015). Her rubric offers teachers the to opportunity to break down rubrics into areas such as content and creativity, voice, text layout, citations and so on. As a social studies teacher I found this beneficial because she includes proper citation and even sequencing of events into her blog rubric. Along with Karen Franker’s blog I discovered another rubric post by Lori Schachle. Lori's assessment blog emphasized the need to create a simple blogging rubric (Schachle, 2013). Although her blog and rubric is simplistic, it does address the core of the blog.
After reviewing the different forms of blog evaluations I would utilize the follow rubric.
Blogging in the classroom represents a new and interesting set of exciting opportunities along with frightening concerns. The ability for students to write their thoughts online for the world to see can be a frightening proposition. Many new Web 2.0 tools have mitigated that concern by offering the ability for teachers to control publishing and also to control who sees the content. Even with those concerns addressed, there is also the concern with grading all of that material.
Fortunately there are a number of resources to help teachers grade all of that content. Karen Franker (2015), from the University of Wisconsin, really helps to cut through all of the clutter. She utilizes a rubric that rates students on a scale of Unsatisfactory, Limited, Proficient and exemplary (Franker, 2015). Her rubric offers teachers the to opportunity to break down rubrics into areas such as content and creativity, voice, text layout, citations and so on. As a social studies teacher I found this beneficial because she includes proper citation and even sequencing of events into her blog rubric. Along with Karen Franker’s blog I discovered another rubric post by Lori Schachle. Lori's assessment blog emphasized the need to create a simple blogging rubric (Schachle, 2013). Although her blog and rubric is simplistic, it does address the core of the blog.
After reviewing the different forms of blog evaluations I would utilize the follow rubric.
Works Cited:
Franker, K. (2015, November 9). A rubric for evaluating student blogs. Retrieved August 29, 2016, from https://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/blogrubric.html
Schachle, L. (2013, June 28). Rubrics for assessing blogs. Retrieved August 29, 2016, from https://wiki.elon.edu/display/TECH/Rubrics+for+assessing+blogs
Franker, K. (2015, November 9). A rubric for evaluating student blogs. Retrieved August 29, 2016, from https://www2.uwstout.edu/content/profdev/rubrics/blogrubric.html
Schachle, L. (2013, June 28). Rubrics for assessing blogs. Retrieved August 29, 2016, from https://wiki.elon.edu/display/TECH/Rubrics+for+assessing+blogs