The Blog Grades

I know I promised to give you an update of your blog grades this week. I've provided a general rubric instead that will give you the opportunity to decide where your grade is right now and how much more contribution you will have to put into the blog for the remainder of the semester to receive the grade you want. Remember that if you submitted a write-up for the REOlds museum, your blog grade will go up by 1.0 (everything's on a 4.0 grade scale). On the rubric,"***" posts signify that you have gone beyond my expectations for the blog, you have contributed an above average number of comments to other people's blogs, or you have continuously written in-depth blog entries. Therefore, even if you don't meet the minimum amount of blog entries, you may receive a higher grade if your blog was exceptionally well-written or you provided a lot of feedback.
Blog entries will be closed for grading as of 12/6/10. I'm grading on your average overall performance throughout the entire semester, so don't expect to receive a great grade if you had very few entries throughout most of the semester.

Here's the breakdown of the blog grades:

26 (or more) posts
OR
23***posts
----------->4.0

20-25 posts
OR
17***posts
----------->3.0

14-19 posts
OR
11***posts
----------->2.0

8-13 posts-----------> 1.0

less than 8 posts----> 0.0

We will go over this in more detail when we meet again for class on Tuesday November 30. At that time, I can also tell you if your blog entries have gone beyond my expectations and received the "***" rating.

Finally, next Tuesday, I will provide a grading rubric for the final paper. Please be sure to attend class so you can get this from me!

Have a great holiday everyone!