Over the December holidays I am busy planning and designing my next courses for 2012, setting up assignments and calculating assessments with the help of some excellent resources and rubrics for evaluating digital creative work, including these:
Blogging
This rubric for evaluating student blogging by University of Wisconsin is exceptionally detailed and a great starting point. As well, there are a couple of helpful articles in The Chronicle of Higher Ed discussing assessing student blogs, including this one about grading, and this one about setting and communicating expectations regarding student blogs. Closely related, here’s a useful list of how to come up with great blog topics.
Infographics
In designing my next infographic rubric I will remix elements of this infographic rubric used in Kathy Schrock’s workshop, with some ideas and insights from a course at U Mary Washington. As part of my infographics assignment I have students complete a written statement about their process, and this rubric—(link opens Word Doc) from Deaken University provides some great ideas for self-reflection regarding research and design choices and challenges.
P2P Commenting
Peer to peer feedback and collaboration are key elements of my hybrid and online courses, and as such they are evaluated as part of students’ grades. I am always seeking resources I can use to design rubrics that will describe with precision my objectives for online P2P engagement and how these activities are assessed. U Wisconsin has a great rubric here. Beyond that, two unconventional starting points for me include this piece by Judy Dunn on the qualities of unremarkable comments, and on the flipside — some best practices and tips for great comments by Bill Ferriter.
Evaluating Digital Creativity: Rubrics & Resources for Assessing Student Blogs, eComments, Infographics http://t.co/QZ0adHk8