So each of you will have your own blog this year. I would like the blogs to start our class discussions. I will be grading your blogs also, and the rubric is posted here. What I expect in your posts: You will be posting whenever we read something after a lab. This will always be after a lab, so you will be trying to connect the reading to the lab. Feel free to ask questions, but if you ask questions then give a hypothesis as to the answer. Feel free to try out theories, and feel free to be wrong. I am not grading these for correctness. Of course you can always go back later and change it. Most of all show me what connections you make and what stands out as good or awesome or interesting to you, since I can often offer more information about those things in class. Here is the rubric I use:
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Explanation | Main Points of the reading are explained in the author’s own words, and explained with a level of understanding. Think about this like you are explaining to a sibling what you read about chemistry tonight. | Main points of the reading are explained, but details are lacking or the explanation is incomplete. | The reading is not explained completely. Main points are not hit, and the explanation is inaccurate. The reader shows their effort in the explanation, but misses the mark. | The explanation is more of a set of bullet points. A full explanation is not really attempted. | |||||
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