Blogging Rubric

For this week's blog entry I looked up a blogging rubric from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IAvEDb7910EobQHNmh8mK3u1Ui4A7d_4LQ7q6dYLb4Q/edit?hl=en_US

This blogging rubric breaks down into five categories: idea and content, post frequency, quality, voice, and use of enhancements. They used a four point scale to represent whether the work was poor (1), satisfactory (2), good (3), and excellent (4). They discussed how in category (1) the work lacked insight, did not have regular posts, the posts that were posted were of poor quality, the voice used was not appropriate, and the student did nothing to enhance or personalize blog. By the time the rubric gets to (4) the work shows excellent insight, posts are regular and recorded in a timely manner, the posts are well written and meaningful, the voice used demonstrates understanding and effectiveness of the topic, the student personalized the blog using creative images, music, and other touches. 

This blog rubric measures up to the one my group and I created because it breaks the blogging process down into 5 categories. Our blogging rubric was broken down into 7 categories. We looked at quality of writing, presentation, multimedia, content and creativity, citations, and comparison. These seven categories were important to my group because we felt as though the blog should be well written, display good grammar and spelling, have images, music, or some sort of multimedia, be creative in understanding the topic and sharing personal thoughts, we thought that having proper citations and references was important because it is like a final paper, and finally show a comparison between the two types of mummies we are analyzing.

It could be better to maybe have less categories. Instead of seven maybe 4 or 5 would be more appropriate and easier to look at. Having seven categories is a bit much especially since some of them are kind of similar. I think that overall we did a good job a making an equal scale of how our blog should be marked. I think this was a good mini assignment to do because it helped us figure out what is important to our blog and how we feel our blog should be marked. It outlined how other blogs in the past have been judged which is useful to understand what areas other professors and bloggers look for.