Everything seems to be all right on my end. Most of the kids really got into the blogging, and I think everyone did at least their assigned postings and commenting. I have to sit down and tally it all now. Mountains of data.
I assigned the kids one person to peer review for each of their postings, so I will give them a grade for that doing that. I think maybe 10 points for all 4 assigned comments, with a 10 (or 11) if they went over and above in their comments, and a 9 if they did all in an OK way, fewer points for fewer postings. I hesitate to grade the quality of their comments any more than that because it's new, but I'm being over-cautious. We also have a viewing media category in our LA grading, so I could weight it a little higher by considering it an LA skill (then I'm looking more for participation and less for content)
I will grade their short story final drafts, though, just as I would a "regular" short story assignment. I told them this ahead of time.
On the other hand, in the space of a year, some of my colleagues have gone from What's blogging? to treating it like a drop box for assignments, so the question raised is When do we stop using token grades and actually assess for content and form? I suppose that's a decent question for MAET Class of 2009 to consider in a TIP. Still, I'm not sure. Blogs are quickly becoming institutionalized on my campus, so it'll be interesting to see how they progress in the minds of teachers and of students.
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