First of all, an alert student brought to my attention that the directions handout says that Podcast 2 is not due until midnight tonight, and of course I will honor what the instructions I gave you in writing, so anyone that didn’t post a link on their blogs to Podcast 2 yet has until midnight tonight.
In class today I handed out a portfolio checklist that tells you everything you need to hand in the last day of class, and a Grading Standards sheet that tells you how I will evaluate your final draft of the semester-long research and writing project. We went over them, then discussed the reading in Baghdad Burning, students’ impressions of it, and I asked for students’ thoughts on what it’s like reading one blogger in depth and at length, and now that you’re all experienced podcastters, I asked for students insights on how audioblogging compares to text blogging. After the break we did peer review of 15-20-page drafts. Today’s method was to read the essay, identify two of the grading standards that it was especially successful in, highlight the parts of the essay that show that success, and then write a note of about half a page to talking about what two elements from the grading standards the essay was most successful at, and what two might be the most important to work on to create a successful essay.
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