Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Assessing Collaborative Learning

Palloff and Pratt discuss several principles to follow in assessing collaborative learning. Besides the instructor ensuring that the expectations are clearly stated, it can be helpful to have the students participate in the grading expectation creation (Palloff and Pratt, 2005). Student involvement in grading criterion encourages ownership of the learning process where the student feels empowered and more in control of their destiny.

Mod 3 Questions Answered

In collaborative learning students are typically assessed using a rubric designed to evaluate the assignment both individually and as a group. If a student does not want to participate, the instructor will hopefully be made aware of this by the other students and should closely monitor the group to check on this behavior. If warranted the student should be rearranged so that they are no longer associated with the same class. Secondly, the instructor may have to make adjustments to the grading rubric if their isn't sufficient time to allow the other members to catch up with the rest of the class.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Storyboard outline

This is the link to my storyboard @ Google docs:

http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AXPsNToFbxQTZGRmdzdmZnBfMGhmcXpnNWd4&hl=en

Very basic, many revisions needed.