iRubric: Blog Expectations rubric

Student has made in-depth and frequent entries, entries both assigned and not assigned, shows risk taking (tried out ideas and combined or added to current ideas) and there are few or no spelling or gramatical errors.

There are a few entries the student made on their own but there are more teacher assigned prompts. Less risk taking, often you will see comments from the teacher "not enough depth"; "needs more analysis" or prompts the student to quite more frequently. Evidence the student hasn't gone back to their writing due to many errors in spelling and writing mechanics.

Little or no self assigned journal entries also is missing one or more assigned entries. Shallow or not enough writing to help the teacher judge, anger or claim that the student doesn't know what to write, Little or no risk taking with thinking-or none that is documented (see first 2 columns for thinking requirements), many spelling and mechanical errors in writing.

Blogs are always submitted late, contains only a few scribbles, documentation of students thinking is missing or incorrect.