Your blog will play an important role in documenting your learning for the course and will act as a communication tool between you and your instructor, as well as other course participants and the worldwide maker learning community.
- Blog posts will be required for the first 10 classes of the semester
- Blog posts will be due before the following class
- Submission of each of the 10 blog posts will be through the class BrightSpace website (10 x 4% = 40%)
Blog Writing: For each topic you are expected to create a blog post with the following elements:
- Include a concise summary of the technologies and/or resources covered in the class topic.
- Reflect on how the technologies or resources could be useful for other projects or in other settings.
- Highlight one or more things you created in the class by employing a multimedia strategy by using text and one or more other media to help make your post more engaging (e.g., photo, screencast, podcast, video, sketchnote, infographics, or other formats).
- Include one or more links to resources consulted for the class topic, including web pages, images, videos, etc.
- Use the WordPress category “topic-reflection” for your post.
Assessment of this assignment will be based on the quality of a learner’s topic responses.
To encourage experimentation and risk-taking, this is a Competency-based course, and a grade of Complete or Incomplete will be assigned for each assignment (along with constructive feedback) as well as a final Complete or Incomplete grade at the end of the course.
