This criteria applies to both your Free Inquiry Tutorials and Weekly Reflections from our course. You are striving to create media rich reflections that capture either the experience of competing the tutorial or reflections from the class. My ultimate hope is that these are beneficial to you, as you document your learning of the technology tools through the tutorials or reflect on some of the key ideas in class.

Rubric for Technology Tutorial Inquiry and Weekly Reflection Blog Posts

Criteria
1. Include a concise summary of the technologies/ pedagogies/ or topics you are reflecting on or commenting on linking concepts to established best practices and educational theories. This may be presented in text or in an audio/video format. 

You may find reflecting on key ideas on class discussions using the what, so what, now what framework helpful in guiding your reflections.

What? What happened? What did you learn? What did you do? What did you expect? What was different? What was your reaction?

So What? Why does it matter? What are the consequences and meanings of your experiences? How do your experiences link to your academic, professional and/or personal development?

Now What? What are you going to do as a result of your experiences? What will you do differently? How will you apply what you have learned?
2. Employ a multimedia strategy for your post by using text and one or more other media to enrich your post and help make it more engaging (e.g., screencast, podcast, video, sketchnote, image, infographics, or other formats), reflecting higher-order critical thinking and synthesis of ideas.

  • Technology tutorial posts should show evidence of learning in progress, via screenshots, trials and errors, stop motion or video, etc. In essence you are trying to document the journey of learning throughout the tutorial.
3. Exceptionally organized blog posts; features a clear, concise, and visually appealing layout that enhances readability. Utilize social writing strategies such as headings, hyperlinks to blog posts, resources, including web pages, images, videos, etc.
4. Your post demonstrates a critical reflection on the technologies/ pedagogies / or topics, or issues you address, including (but not limited to):

  • Possible benefits & drawbacks
  • Practical and feasible operation
  • age appropriateness
  • Key takeaways or big ideas from class discussions
  • Possible or actual privacy & security issues
  • Possible equity or social justice issues
5. Use the category “weekly-reflection” , “Free Inquiry”, or “Online Learning Inquiry” as required.