Erin+Longacre,+Blog+Lesson

Blog Lesson Plan  Objective: To get students introduced to the idea of blogging in the classroom. I will accomplish this goal by created my own blog for my computer programming class. On this blog I will post thought provoking questions every Monday. Students will be required to access my blog and respond to my questions.

Requirements: 1.) Students will access my blog and post a minimum of one comment to each new blog topic that I create. They must also make at least one comment on another student’s comments. Students response need to written in a professionally manor, using proper English and no foul language.

Assessment: 1.) I will grade each post according to the Blogging Rubric I have created

 Handout For Students

Blogging Project 

Objective: Students will be responding to teacher created blogs about topics in programming.

Every Monday a new topic will be posted to our classroom blog, your job as students is to post a comment to this topic. You are also to respond to at last one of your classmate’s comments as well. This project will run for the duration of the semester with a new topic being posted every Monday. In order to successfully complete this project, students should follow the steps below.

1.) Access the classroom blog at http://misslongacresprogrammingclass.wordpress.com/ 2.) Once you have successfully accessed the blog you should read the topic of the week. 3.) Once you have read the topic take some time to think about your response. Some of the topics might require research while others may be more based off your opinion. 4.) You will be required to post your comment by Thursday, and your response to a classmates comment by Friday. 5.) You may work on this at home or when you have time during class. 6.) You will be graded on each weeks posts according to the rubric located on the back of this paper.

If you have any questions please ask!!

Note: All postings need to be school appropriate, this means no foul language or criticizing another student. Also this is a public blog so just use your first name and do not publish any other information about yourself. Please do not link your comments back to your own blog if you have one, this could cause information to get released. Thank You!

Grading Rubric  Blogging Rubric

Teacher Name: Ms. Longacre

Student Name: (conventions) ||= All requirements have been meet minimum of 1 comment in response to my blog and minimum of 1 comment ||= Most of the requirements have been meet ||= Some of the requirements have been meet ||= None of the requirements have been meet ||  || Paragraphs ||= Sentences and paragraphs are complete, well-constructed and of varied structure. ||= All sentences are complete and well-constructed (no fragments, no run-ons). Paragraphing is generally done well. ||= Most sentences are complete and well-constructed. Paragraphing needs some work. ||= Many sentence fragments or run-on sentences OR paragraphing needs lots of work. ||  ||
 * = CATEGORY ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2 ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 || <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Score ||
 * = <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Requirements
 * = <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Grammar & spelling ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Writer makes no errors in grammar or spelling. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Writer makes 1-2 errors in grammar and/or spelling. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Writer makes 3-4 errors in grammar and/or spelling ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Writer makes more than 4 errors in grammar and/or spelling. ||  ||
 * = <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Content Accuracy ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The post contains at least 5 accurate facts about the topic. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The post contains 3-4 accurate facts about the topic. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The post contains 1-2 accurate facts about the topic. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The post contains no accurate facts about the topic. ||  ||
 * = <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ideas ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ideas were expressed in a clear and organized fashion. It was easy to figure out what the letter was about. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ideas were expressed in a pretty clear manner, but the organization could have been better. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ideas were somewhat organized, but were not very clear. It took more than one reading to figure out what the letter was about. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The letter seemed to be a collection of unrelated sentences. It was very difficult to figure out what the letter was about. ||  ||
 * = <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sentences &
 * = <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Length ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The letter is 8 or more sentences. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The letter is 7 - 5 sentences. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The letter is 4 - 6 sentences. ||= <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The letter is less than 4 sentences. ||  ||
 * <span style="color: #3e00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Total ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||