Grading

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Your final grade for this course will be based primarily on the quality of your assignments, research, participation in threaded discussion and your willingness to explore the vast parameters of cyberspace. As a minimum, your grade will be the average of all required assignments and threaded discussions. Failure to submit all assignments and/or failure to participate in the threaded discussion will adversely affect your grade.

You will have the entire semester to edit, revise and update your work, but regular posting of projects and threaded discussions will be required.

All work must be posted by the last day of class. I will not accept E-mail attachments as meeting the responsibility of a webfolio.

While developing these creative skills, you will also be expected to achieve and demonstrate "some" level of proficiency with web page design. You will not, however, be expected to become a web page designer or computer guru. Like a photographer and his camera, you will be judged by the quality and composition and content of your work, not your technical skill with the computer, though you need to develop some proficiency with the computer and web page design to function successfully.

Final grades are based on the quality of your work. The final evaluation requires that you demonstrate a level of sophistication, creativity, depth and expertise. Your work and Blackboard dialogue must sustain all of these characteristics.

The academic focus of any course should be more on what you get out of the course than on any final grade you might receive. The grade should probably be anticlimactic to the experience of learning and knowledge building.

Evaluation of Question /Discussion Course Component on Blackboard portal

There are multiple levels of reaction to the question. The deeper, more probing, more evaluative the comments, the more effective your knowledge building will become. Treat the questions superficially and your knowledge gain will also be shallow and superficial. Or, to put it more bluntly, you get out of it what you put into it.

  • First I'll check for your immediate personal reaction.
  • Then I'll look for evidence of some type of deeper evaluation.
  • Then I'll look for evidence of synthesis and connections within your comments
  • Finally, I'll look at responses of other students to your comments. If your original comments were not very thought provoking other students will not likely react to it.