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CATEGORY

Full Credit (5)

Partial Credit (3)

No Credit (0-1)

Content

Postings show insight, understanding, and reflective thought about the topic, asks new related questions, makes statements supported by personal experience or related research

Postings provide moderate insight, understandings and reflective thought about the topics

Postings how little or no evidence of insight, understanding, or reflective thought about the topic

Viewpoint

Postings present a focused and cohesive viewpoint, use supporting examples or links to other websites or documents

Postings present a specific viewpoint that uses supporting examples, but not all links enhance the information presented

Postings do not include supporting examples, a specific viewpoint, or links to other websites and documents

Voice

Postings are appealing and appropriate for the audience, a consistent voice is used, and the author's personality brings life to the topic

Postings are generally appropriate for the audience, reflect a bit of the author's personality, attempts to bring the topic to life

Postings do not reflect an awareness of audience, difficult to identify author's voice, no personality or life in the topic

Text Layout

Selects and inserts high quality graphics and multimedia when appropriate

Selects and inserts graphics and multimedia that are mostly high quality

Does not insert any graphics or graphics do not enhance content

Graphics & Multimedia

Acknowledges all image and multimedia when sources with captions

Acknowledges most image and multimedia resources with captions

Does not acknowledge sources with captions

Timeliness

Updates blog as often or more often than required, posts are date-stamped with most recent at top of page

Updates blog when required, most are date-stamped with most recent at top of page

Does not update blog within required time frame

Citations

All images, media, and text created by others display appropriate copyright permissions and accurate citations

Most images, media, or text created by others display appropriate copyright permissions

No images, media, or text created by others display appropriate copyright permissions and do not include accurate citations

Quality of Writing/Proofreading

Written responses are free of grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors

Written responses include some grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors

Written responses contain numerous grammatical errors that distract the reader

Creativity

Postings are creatively and fluently written to stimulate dialogue and commentary

Postings are generally well written with some attempts made to stimulate dialogue

Postings do not stimulate dialogue and commentary with the audience