Criteria Unsatisfactor Limited (2) Proficient (3) Exemplary (4) Ratin

y (1) g
Content and Postings show Postings Postings Postings  
Creativity no evidence of provide provide provide
(x4) insight, minimal moderate comprehensive
understanding insight, insight, insight,
or reflective understandin understanding understanding,
  thought about g and and reflective and reflective
the topic. reflective thought about thought about
thought about the topic. the topic by
the topic. ...building a
focused
argument
around a
specific issue
or
 ...asking a new
related
question or
 ...making an
oppositional
statement
supported by
personal
experience or
related
research.
Postings Postings Postings Postings
present no present a present a present a
specific specific specific focused and
viewpoint and viewpoint but viewpoint that cohesive
no supporting lack is substantiated viewpoint that
examples or supporting by supporting is substantiated
links to examples or examples and by effective
websites or links to links to supporting
documents are websites or websites or examples or
provided, or documents, documents, but links to
the links but not all not all links relevant, up-to-
selected are of links enhance enhance the date websites
poor quality the information or documents
and do not add information presented. that enhance
any value to presented. the information
the information presented.
presented.
 Postings do Postings are Postings are Postings are
not stimulate brief and generally well creatively and
dialogue and unimaginative written with fluently written
commentary , and reflect some attempts to stimulate
and do not minimal effort made to dialogue and
connect with to connect stimulate commentary.
the audience. with the dialogue and
audience. commentary.
Text Layout, Does not insert Selects and Selects and Selects and  
Use of any graphics, inserts many inserts graphics inserts high
Graphics or uses only low-quality and multimedia quality graphics
and low-quality graphics and that are mostly and multimedia
Multimedia graphics and multimedia high quality when
multimedia, which do not and enhance appropriate to
(x2) which do not enhance the and clarify the enhance the
enhance the content. content. content’s visual
content. appeal and
    increase
    readability.
Does not Acknowledge Acknowledges Acknowledges
acknowledge s only a few most image all image and
any image or multimedia and multimedia multimedia
multimedia and image sources with sources with
sources, either sources and captions or captions or
with a caption uses annotations. annotations.
or an incomplete
annotation. captions or
annotations.
Timeliness Does not Updates blog Updates blog Updates blog  
and Tags update blog when when required; as often or
within the reminded; most posts are more often
required time posts are date-stamped than required;
frame. often missing with the most all posts are
  a date stamp. current posting date-stamped
  listed at the and the most
top. recent posts
are placed at
the top of the
page.
Does not The post is Post is Post is
categorize and not categorized categorized
tag the topic categorized and tagged. and topics are
appropriately. and tagged tagged
 appropriately. appropriately.
Citations No images, Some of the Most images, All images,  
media or text images, media or text media and text
created by media or text created by created by
others display created by others display others display
appropriate others does appropriate appropriate
copyright not display copyright copyright
permissions appropriate permissions permissions
and do not copyright and accurate, and accurate
include permissions properly citations.
accurate, and does not formatted
properly include citations.
formatted accurate,
citations. properly
formatted
citations.
Quality of
Written Written Written Written
Writing and
responses responses responses are responses are
Proofreadin
contain include some largely free of free of
g
numerous grammatical, grammatical, grammatical,
(x2)
grammatical, spelling or spelling or spelling or
spelling or punctuation punctuation punctuation
punctuation errors that errors.  The errors.  The
 
errors.  The distract the style of writing style of writing
style of writing reader.  generally facilitates
does not facilitates communication. 
facilitate communication. 
effective
communication
.
TOTAL (40)