Student Blogging Rubric

Criteria Unacceptable Student only summarizes about a topic that is not relevant to the current unit of study. The student is not thoughtful or well prepared. There are more than five grammatical mistakes. Acceptable Student posts about a relevant topic based on the current unit of study. Student offers some new, original ideas but does some summarizing. The post is thoughtfully prepared and appropriate for the audience. There are 1-4 grammatical errors. Target Student posts about a topic that is relevant and pertains to the current unit of study. Evidence is shown that the student has thoughtfully prepared a wellwritten discussion that is appropriate for the given audience. There are no grammatical errors.

Ideas and Content

Use of Resources or Enhancements

Student uses creditable resources to support his/her The student uses creditable ideas. The student offers The student does not use creditable resources or multimedia to statistics, facts, or anecdotes to resources or multimedia to support support their ideas. The student add to the post and ideas the ideas in the posts. offers statistics, facts, or anecdotes presented in the post. Student to add to the post or ideas. uses a form of multimedia to illustrate or connect to a point. Student interacts with at least one other students blog post. The student shows that they understand the peers post and offer new ideas for the student. The student offers a question that furthers learning. Student interacts with at least two other students blog postings by understanding what is being said, offering new ideas, and posing a question to further learning.

Peer Responses

Student does not interact with any of his or her peers.