My Rubric

ELEMENT	Super smily   3	Proficient 2	satisfactory 1	frown 0
Content and Creativity
	comprehensive insight, understanding, reflective thought about the topics.	moderate insight, understanding and reflective thought about the topic.	minimal insight, understanding and reflective thought about the topic.	no insight, understanding or reflective thought about the topic.	____/3
	Postings are creatively and fluently written	Postings are generally well written	Postings are brief and unimaginative,	Postings are written in a half-hearted, disjointed manner	____/3
Voice	appealing and appropriate for the intended audience and a consistent voice throughout.	moderately appropriate for the intended audience and an attempt is made to use a consistent voice.	does not fully consider the audience, and the author’s voice is difficult to identify.	carelessly written with no attempt to consider the audience and no awareness of author voice.	____/3
word choice	reflects unique personality through expressive and carefully selected word choices that bring the topic to life.	reflects a bit of personality through word choices that attempt to bring the topic to life.	reflect almost no personality and little attempt is made to use effective word choices to bring the topic to life.	devoid of any personality; words used are trite and unexpressive.	____/3
Organization	Uses a consistent organizational structure that is easy to follow and places the most recent posts at the top of the page.	Uses a generally consistent organizational structure, with the most current posting listed at the top.	Uses a loosely defined organizational structure that shows minimal awareness of the need for consistency.	Fails to provide a consistent organizational structure and shows no awareness of the need for consistency.	____/3
Timeliness	Updates blog as often or more often than required;	Updates blog when required; most posts are date-stamped.	Updates blog when reminded; posts are often missing a date stamp.	Fails to update blog within the required time frame.	____/3
Mechanics	Writes with no errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.	Writes with minor editing errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.	Writes with major errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation and spelling. (3 or more errors)	Writes with numerous major errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation and spelling. (More than 5 errors)	____/3
Text Layout	Effectively uses the blog software’s text formatting capabilities to enhance the content’s visual appeal and increase readability.	Uses some of the blog software’s text formatting capabilities to enhance the content’s visual appeal and increase readability.	Uses very few of the blog software’s text formatting capabilities.	Uses none of the blog software’s text formatting capabilities.	____/3
Graphics and Multimedia	Selects and inserts high quality graphics and multimedia when appropriate to enhance and extend the content.	Selects and inserts graphics and multimedia that are mostly high quality and enhance and clarify the content.	Selects and inserts many low-quality graphics and multimedia which do not enhance the content.	Does not insert any graphics, or uses only low-quality graphics and multimedia, which do not enhance the content.	____/3
	Acknowledges all image and multimedia sources with captions or annotations.	Acknowledges most image and multimedia sources with captions or annotations.	Acknowledges only a few multimedia and image sources and uses incomplete captions or annotations.	Fails to acknowledge any image or multimedia sources, either with a caption or an annotation.	____/3
Comments and Contributions	Writes comments on other students’ blog postings that are consistently positive, respectful, and succinct while providing a meaningful addition to the discussion.	Writes comments on other students’ blog postings that are generally positive, respectful and add value to the discussion.	Writes comments on other students’ blog postings which often fail to show respect for other opinions.	Writes openly disrespectful and negative comments on other students’ blog postings.	____/3
	Meets all goals and deadlines for posting comments on other students’ blogs.	Meets most goals and deadlines for posting comments on other students’ blogs.	Occasionally meets goals and deadlines for posting comments on other students’ blogs.	Does not meet goals and deadlines for posting comments on other students’ blogs.	____/3
TOTAL POINTS					___/48