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Blogging Rubric HS

Proficient
16-17 pts

Develop More
14-15 pts

Needs Improvement
12-13 pts

Ideas

Critical Thinking

Post is on topic offering synthesis and evaluation Post offers connections between assigned, or selected, article and research readings.

Post is off topic offering no connection to assigned, or selected, article.

Support
Finding information that related to your Blog post. Entry uses both quoted and paraphrased information from the article and research readings to support post. Initial article is cited using proper MLA format. All support readings have link attribution. Entry uses both quoted and paraphrased information from the article and research readings to support post. Initial article is cited using proper MLA format. All support readings have link attribution. Entry uses both quoted and paraphrased information from the article. Initial article is cited using proper MLA format. Entry uses no direct information from the article. Initial article is cited using proper MLA format

Participation

Community

Comments are positive and supportive of classmates. Comments are made in a thoughtful manner that extend the blog conversation. Number of Comments are positive and supportive of classmates. Comments are on topic and add to the Blog conversation. No less than two comments are made for each assigned blog partner.

Comments show little support of classmates and are at times off topic. Comments are at times trivial. Less than two comments are made for each assigned blog partner.

Comments are off topic. Comments are short and trivial. Less than two comments are made for each assigned blog partner.

Expectations

Blog post is completed on time but no comments are completed before assigned date.

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We started with a poem the kids wrote in their English class about their greatest fear.  They spent some time using audacity where they created an audio track for their poem. A music intro was added and they then exported the audio as an mp3. The kids analyzed the words they used in the poem and then started
looking for different images that might represent these words. They found graphics for their video and uploaded the graphics and audio to Animoto. After setting things up in Animoto they exported the video to Youtube.

The next step was to create a poster. After some discussion about different design considerations the kids created a glog. The glog needed to include  appropriate graphics, as well as, the text and video copy of their poem. The students then posted this to their blog and english wik and on the whole it worked quite well.

For the next semester I need to tidy up a few areas. Some students have had
difficulty embedding the glog into their blog or into their wiki. Also I need to create a rubric that helps them better understand the expectations I had for their audio instead of just having a rubric for the poster. Our equipment is not that great but the work they did on the audio could have been better. I also need to get into the habit of screencasting the different parts as with our schedule they forget a lot from week to week.

Anyhow here are some examples. Will be adding more later today.

http://alishan.glogster.com/AVP-Fear-Poem/

There are two Wordpress plugins that can help this all work, FeedWordPress and WP-o-Matic, both can do what I wanted. I ended up using WP-o-Matic. After installing this plugin and activating it I changed some of the default options in the Options Menu so the Feed Date and the Post title links to source were selected.

I noticed that when I clicked on the post category, in my case Our Class Posts, that I would only get part of the feed. To make sure I got all of the feed I changed the the_excerpt to the_content in the archive page template. This would allow me to see the full feed.

So now the content is automatically created based on the rss feeds coming from each student site. The only thing left to do is adding all of the student RSS feeds.

 

With the data I then added some columns to the spread sheet that concatenated the information to form a URL. I wanted to add this information to a wordpress blog but wordpress strips the html out of blogposts.

After searching I came across rawHtml a plugin that allows me to inlcude HTML code in a blog. This allowed me to create a list of all 80 of the RSS feeds I have going so now I can aggregate the feeds and comments.

Sample of the first few feeds

ssismar’s Feed
ssismar’s Comment Feed

ssisye’s Feed
ssisye’s Comment Feed

ssisyeon’s Feed
ssisyeon’s Comment Feed

ssismin’s Feed
ssismin’s Comment Feed

ssiskanh’s Feed
ssiskanh’s Comment Feed

ssisji’s Feed
ssisji’s Comment Feed

ssismon’s Feed
ssismon’s Comment Feed

ssistam’s Feed
ssistam’s Comment Feed

ssisjaise’s Feed
ssisjaise’s Comment Feed

ssisjihye’s Feed
ssisjihye’s Comment Feed