Interactivity #4 Feedback

All spreadsheets and blogposts comprising Interactivity #4 have been formally assessed and final scores have been posted to your Engrade account(s). The average score of submissions was a low 7 out of 10 points:

Below is the scoring checklist for this assignment (The checklist was also posted in the Interactivity #4 guidelines). It is worth re-viewing as you contemplate the score you earned. 

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Note that we curved the final set of grades (to your advantage), so the numbers on your individual rubric will most likely add up to a lower score than the one you were finally assigned within Engrade. I did this to acknowledge that aligning technologies, strategies and standards (also known as "technology integration") is a challenging activity, particularly since some of you have not yet worked in depth with lesson plans; neither have many of you completed your methods courses within your pre-service program. Please know that we are sympathetic to this fact and made accommodations in ways that are appropriate to the assignments.

The most common mistakes made on this assignment were (in rank order):

• Spreadsheet not fully labeled with all the required information.
• Selected technologies did not align with the teaching strategies.
• Standards were not identified and supported.
• The lesson plan lacked a clear curriculum goal.
• Narrative blog post failed to do any or all of the following: provide a rationale for choosing lesson plan; identify gaps in the lesson plan; or did not explain the necessity of the technology.
• Lack of clear identification of (language for) teaching strategies in the spreadsheet.

Those who earned 5 points or less on this assignment most likely did one or more of the following (in addition to making the mistakes listed above):

• Made their spreadsheet inaccessible by failing to change the settings to "public."
• Did not include a narrative blog post to accompany the Google Spreadsheet.

Moving forward, you will have one final opportunity to engage in technology integration (the alignment of selected technologies, with intentional strategies,and required curriculum standards) in the final project of the semester (worth 25% of your grade). Guidelines for the final project will be posted on April 11th.