As we narrow in on the 25% completion deadline all of you should have received your textbooks by now. If you have not received your textbook please let me know and we will contact the publisher to see where it is at in the shipping process.
Now is about the time that you are likely thinking about assignments for the courses you are developing. I would like to encourage you to create rubrics for any assignments that you develop.
A rubric is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. Many experts believe that rubrics improve students' end products and therefore increase learning. Here is a link to several articles that describe what rubrics are and uses a "chocolate chip cookie" to help give an example. Being as chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorites, I thought this article was a good one to pass along :-)
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods-and-management/rubrics/4522.html
Additionally, a couple of weeks ago Kelly Schmidt sent out this link as a great tool that helps create grading rubrics: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
The website offers specific examples for assignments in a variety of disciplines and also helps you design original rubrics based on the course and assignment type.
Happy Developing!
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