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Characteristic
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Stellar
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Acceptable
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Unacceptable
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Clear ownership
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It is clear that you are the author of the website and you have provided information so that visitors to your site, especially parents and students, can easily communicate with you through multiple channels.
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It is clear that you are the author of the website but your contact information is limited.
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It is not clear that you are the author of the web site and your contact information is incomplete or incorrect.
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Purpose
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The purpse(s) of your website is (are) clearly communicated to visitors. Additionally, the type(s) of website you have chosen matches your purpose.
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The intended purpose(s) of your website is (are) clear, but another type of website would match your purpose better.
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The intended purpose(s) of your website is (are) not clear and another type of website may have matched your purpose better.
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| Organization |
Your website is well organized, visually appealing, and provides easy to use navigational menus. |
Your website is organized and visitors can find most of what they are looking for, but your navigational menus do not completely reflect your organization. |
It is very difficult to find things on your website and/or your site is visually distracting. |
| Contents |
You provide the following types of content:
- assignment due dates using a calendar widget
- project-specific links to useful web resources
- links to high quality practice quizzes, presentations, widgets, or flashcards, at least one of which you have created.
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You provide the following types of content:
- assignment due dates using a table
- a general list of links to useful resouces
- links to high quality practice quizzes, presentations, widgets, or flashcards that someone else has created.
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The site lacks one or more of the types of content described at the adequate level. |
| Interaction |
Students can contribute to at least some parts of the class website as authors. |
Students can contribute to at least some parts of the clas website as commenters. |
Students cannot contribute to any part of the class webite. |
| Functioning |
All of your links work and the gadgets that you have installed enhance your site and have obvious connections to the purpose(s) of your site. |
Your links work, but the gadgets that you have installed detract from your site and its purpose(s). |
You have broken links, improperly installed gadgets, or visible source code. |
Comments (17)
mr. ross said
at 7:52 pm on Feb 23, 2009
This is new territory for me so it looks good. I think that any changes might come from those a wee bit more informed than I.
Jenifer Hoggan said
at 9:28 pm on Feb 24, 2009
It outlines the requirements well, but I agree with Ross that I can't really advise any changes as I'm pretty much clueless in this area.
McKenzie Borup said
at 1:39 pm on Feb 26, 2009
It seems like it outlines what we need to do very clearly. I think I can follow it to know how to set up my web presence. I am like the other two, however, and have never done this before.
mindyhinckley@msn.com said
at 7:49 pm on Feb 28, 2009
I am also new to this, therefore I think the rubric will help me design my web presence with more direction. This may be a dumb question, but what is a gadget? I thought a 'gadget' was a 'gizmo':) What technology connotation does it have? Also, is it too confusing for students if we have links to 'engrade' and quiz links since we can't provide a "Return to Home" icon once they have entered those websites? I don't know if that makes any sense, I am wondering if it is okay to link to another website for those services, or if there is a better way. Any ideas?
Kimberly McCollum said
at 9:42 pm on Feb 28, 2009
@Mindy -- Instead of gadgets, I should have used "widgets", the more generic term, but I was thinking in Google mode and Google calls its widgets, Google gadgets. Basically, a widget/gadget is embeddable code that you can include in your web page. Wikipedia has some better background on what a web widget is, but I think you might get the best idea by actually creating an iGoogle page, clicking "add stuff", and then playing around with the wide range of widgets/gadgets that you can choose from. Be warned -- this can be a fascinating, but time-consuming activity.
Kimberly McCollum said
at 9:46 pm on Feb 28, 2009
@Mindy -- As long as you warn students that they will be linking to an external site, it should be OK to link to outside applications. Many, if not most (but not all) students will be fairly comfortable navigating websites by the time they are in middle or high school. However, you should probably still make it a point to suggest that students bookmark the class home page and try to remember to use tabbed browsing so that they can keep the home window open when they open the link to the new site.
Meghan Christensen said
at 1:33 pm on Mar 2, 2009
In the Stellar Organization block, there seems to be some information missing.... I think this looks good, but it seems like a lot of work for one hour...is this also for week 9's work?
Meghan Christensen said
at 1:38 pm on Mar 2, 2009
Nevermind, I looked at week 9's assignment and understand the time frame a little better now.
Eric Pratt said
at 4:41 pm on Mar 2, 2009
I thought this rubric looks good. I noticed the missing information in the Stellar section of the Organization category. I couldn't decipher what was missing based on the Acceptable and Unacceptable columns, but I think Organization is well written.
Hammari said
at 6:12 pm on Mar 2, 2009
The rubric looks complete besides the already mentioned missing information. Also just a side note widgets/gadgets are also made to be embedded into a desktop program (dashboard for MACs and Gadget sidebar for Vista).
Christen Allen said
at 11:39 pm on Mar 2, 2009
This rubric makes a lot of sense and I am excited to start creating my web presence. I made a few minor changes--just some obcessive little things. This really looks great, though!
Olivia Seger said
at 4:21 pm on Mar 5, 2009
Seems all right to me. I just have to figure out how to get it all done. : )
Olivia Seger said
at 9:41 pm on Mar 8, 2009
I am building my blog on edublogs and it won't let me add plugins for new widgets (such as a calender widget for assignments) without paying seven dollars a month? Am I missing something? Is there a way to add one without paying money?
Olivia Seger said
at 10:03 pm on Mar 8, 2009
Nevermind, I figured out how to embed a Google calender onto my blog. So cool!
Kimberly McCollum said
at 10:31 pm on Mar 9, 2009
@Everyone -- When you find information "missing" from a rubric, go ahead and edit the rubric. You are going to find this necessary over the next few weeks. You will all have greater responsibility in creating the assignment rubrics; this is practice for your future classrooms.
@Christen - I'm glad to hear that you are excited! I saw that you were the first person to send me a link to your web presence. I was attending a conference last week, but I plan to provide you with feedback soon.
@Olivia - Way to answer your own question! I have to agree with you, embedding is a pretty cool trick.
Nicole Manwaring said
at 4:21 pm on Mar 23, 2009
I am unsure exactly what the unacceptable purpose box is saying (I think there is a word missing), but other than that it looks really good.
Kimberly McCollum said
at 9:44 pm on Mar 27, 2009
@Nicole - when you find something that doesn't make sense, change it so that it does. This is a collaborative effort and it takes contributions from all of us to get it right!
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