Assignment 1: Topic Critical Reflection Blog Posts

Worth 66% of your grade (6% for each of the 11 required blog posts)

Your blog and other social media will play an important role in the learning for this course and will act as a communication tool between you and your instructor, as well as other course participants, and the open learning community.

Critical Reflection:

Purpose

• Develop digital literacy and reflective practice through multimedia documentation.
• Support ISTE “Learner” and “Collaborator” competencies by leveraging technology to share resources and improve practice.

Task & Criteria for Success

• Author a blog post at the end of each class throughout the course term.
• Success is defined by meeting all five criteria of the single-point rubric:
  1. Concise Summary: Provide a clear overview of the technological or pedagogical topic.
  2. Critical Reflection: Conduct a critical reflection analyzing benefits, drawbacks, age appropriateness, privacy, security, equity, and accessibility for one or more of the pedagogies or technologies.
  3. Social Integration: Engage with the wider learning community or seeking feedback.
  4. Multimedia Enrichment: Use of non-text media to increase engagement and clarity. Here is a video that demonstrates how to upload an image or embed a YouTube video in a WordPress blog post (opens in a new tab).
  5. Social Writing: Effective use of hyperlinks and trackbacks to contextualize the work. Here is a 1 minute video that demonstrates how to link to another web page or website in WordPress (opens in a new tab).
  6. Submit to Brightspace: Submit your completed critical reflection blog post to the associated Brightspace assignment. Here is a video that demonstrates how to submit your completed blog post public web address to Brightspace (opens in a new tab).

Allowed Uses of Generative AI:

You ARE ALLOWED to use Generative AI tools for:

• Idea Generation
• Blog post structuring

(see the course Generative AI policy for more details)