(via Sarah) This is one of the better running class Web logs that’s out there I think, one that I would like to emulate in many ways. Kara Kerwin has done some real interesting thinking about how to make a course Web site not only interesting to look at but easy to navigate and genuinely informative, too. The whole site is worth a look. But the Web log does some particularly interesting things in terms of asing questions for credit with cut off dates for responses. (For some reason, I like to read the responses in chronological order, however.) She keys her questions to readings or news so as to provide relevancy to the class. I’m interested to in the way she is working through assessing student work in the Web log. (At some point, that may be an interesting strand to start on the Edublogger Board.) I’ve found so far that I assess Web log discussion responses first by whether or not they are there, and second by the depth of the response. A 1-5 scale seems logical. But as with anything new, I struggle with how much to make it worth.
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