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Peer Marking: Blog Name of Marker: Kelly BeardsallName of Blog Creator: Gwen BerryEvidence of minimal/incomplete awareness and engagement Grade: FSome evidence of awareness, understanding and engagement with concepts, skills, and dispositionsGrade: PSound evidence of awareness, understanding and engagement with concepts, skills, and dispositionsGrade: CConsistent, wide-ranging evidence of awareness, understanding and engagement with concepts, skills, and dispositionsGrade: DExemplary awareness, understanding and engagement with concepts, skills, and dispositions, which is generally well above expectationsGrade: HDContentContent and ideas: Connection to unit content/tasks. Blog posts are unstructured without connections to unit concepts, ideas or learning tasks. Some content or posts may be missing. Blog posts have limited linkage to unit concepts, ideas or learning tasks. There may be a lack of focus in several. Blog posts provide a mostly clear and thoughtful response to the unit content/learning tasks, although some posts may lack focus.Blog posts provide a clear, thoughtful and mostly focused response to the unit content/learning tasks. All blog posts provide a coherent, focused and insightful response to unit content/ learning tasks.Teaching ideasPosts do not include teaching idea.Most posts include one teaching idea.Most posts include one teaching idea, some are linked to theory.Most posts include one teaching idea which is linked to theory.All posts include one teaching idea which is linked to theory.Written response to peer feedbackPeer feedback and response missing.Includes two samples of peer feedback and 200 word response to feedback.Includes two samples of peer feedback and focused 200 word response to feedback.Includes two samples of peer feedback and focused 200 word response to feedback. Some evaluative elements.Includes two samples of peer feedback and focused 200 word critical response to feedback.n/aEvidence of weekly tasksWeekly task efforts not included or less than 3 weekly tasks included.Evidence of at least 3 weekly tasks.Evidence of more than 3 weekly tasks.REFER COMMENTSEvidence of most weekly tasks.Evidence of tasks from Week 3-8 but may also incorporate task efforts from other weeks.Degree of reflection rather than descriptionBlog posts limited to description of tasks and unit content. No evidence of reflection on strengths, weaknesses or goals.Blog posts have limited information about how understanding has changed. Limited evidence of reflection on strengths, weaknesses or goals.Some blog posts consider how understanding has changed, but lacks any examples or comparisons. Some evidence of reflection on strengths, weaknesses or goals.Blog posts give some evidence to show how understanding has changed. Demonstrates the ability to articulate some strengths, weaknesses and goals for future improvement.Blog posts gives specific detail and examples and comparisons to show how understanding has changed. Demonstrates the ability to clearly articulate strengths, weaknesses and goals for future improvement.Text Layout, use of graphics, task inclusionBlog DesignNo graphics or low quality graphics only which do not enhance and complement the content. Poor choice of template. Lacks aesthetic appeal.Graphics of variable quality or size. Limited evidence of design elements (contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity) and visual appeal in blog design Template used may not be appropriate. Mostly good quality graphics. Evidence of design elements being utilised to improve the visual appeal and functionality of the blog. Mostly high quality original graphics and multimedia that enhance the content. Evidence of design elements incorporated into the blog design to achieve a professional appearance and high level functionality/ organisation.Selects and uses high quality, original graphics. These are well annotated. Design is consistent, and appropriate and enhances the visual appeal and readability of the blog. Design is personalised and may have some innovative features. Images or links to tasks from Week 3 to 8 included. Academic SkillsOrganisation and coherenceLacks coherence in and/or between sentences. No evidence of awareness of audience. Lacks student voice.Post style does not consider audience and there is little evidence of student voice. Sentences may be limited in type or inappropriately connected. Range of sentence types which are usually appropriately connected. Style is clear with some evidence of student voice. Posts reflect student personality to some extent. Range of appropriately connected sentence types. Writing style is generally appropriate for the audience and an attempt is made to use a consistent voice.Posts reflect the author’s personality and has a strong sense of voice. Sentences are coherent and well connected.Grammar and accuracy (including spelling and punctuation)Many grammatical errors and/or use of a limited vocabulary, which may include inappropriate usage. Numerous spelling and/or punctuation errors.Some grammatical errors and/or use of a limited vocabulary which may include inappropriate usage. Spelling and/or punctuation errors. Some grammatical errors in complex forms, and/or may include a more limited vocabulary range. Few spelling and/or punctuation errors. A range of contextually appropriate vocabulary and few, if any, grammatical errors. Very few or no spelling or punctuation errors. A wide range of contextually appropriate vocabulary and no grammatical errors. No spelling or punctuation errors. ReferencingIdeas of others used without acknowledgement.Ideas acknowledged but may not be APA style.Referencing resembles APA style.Referencing is APA style with very few errors.Referencing is APA style and error ments (Make these specific and constructive. What was good about your peer’s blog? What could they do to make it better before they submit?):Gwen I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog. I quite liked the layout, graphics, the added touch of the “about you section” and the links to the unit’s twitter feeds. The extra infographics you created for some of the posts were very appealing and very relevant to the topic of the week. You are very well versed in lyric and words, and this is highly evident with some of the posts. Although the theme choice is a nice crisp clear theme, the light green writing against the solid darker green background did make it hard to read. There was a lot of scrolling and I do recall Sam mentioning that he didn’t want to scroll too much when reading our posts, so as a suggestion, maybe look to include a menu to give the reader a menu to find and select the post they are searching for and the links in the posts don’t open in new pages and as such the reader is using the back button a lot. The graphic choices for your reflections are great, however, maybe a rethink of some of the feature images, for example the week 8 feature image would be great as a final sign off pic and the infographic you created would be great as the main feature image. Whilst you have evidenced the weekly tasks within your posts, I feel that they are somewhat incomplete. For example for week 5 though the pinterest board is on the blog there is no reflection on the peer marking exercise for this, as to with the infographic exercise in week 4 we were asked to reflect on our peer feedback in our blog post. Maybe give the weekly tasks another quick read and see if the entries can be elaborated on. There are some posts that suggest teaching ideas however, they are not defined ideas and there doesn’t seem to be direct links to theory on some of these.. As an example with the pinterest paragraph for topic 5 – how could you use pinterest in a class project and what learning theory can this be linked to (Amy does this exceptionally well in her posts).Some of the entries don’t feel finished, have a read of the final paragraphs of some of the entries and see if you can tie them off a bit more effectively. Week 6 the scratch week – does feel rushed and very much unfinished (however I understand the reasoning behind this). Also just give the entries the read out a-loud test and see if you can reword some sentences to be a little bit more fluent. For example – week 5 – suggestion - ‘My husband, who is very much a digital immigrant (Howell 2013) asked me to explain to him what digital information is, my reply was…..” then what you wrote from there (as a suggestion).Referencing for the Howell Text is missing the italics for the book title, but all in all a great display of mastering the APA referencing style.I enjoyed your blog very much, I very much like the theme, your voice is clear and it was great that you included the assessment 1 video and that you have added other week reflections to this task. I hope you find my observations helpful and constructive. KelGrade Average: Credit ................
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