I agree with the blogging assessment system in your class. The blog posts give students extra grades to fall back on, provide extra review and study time, and are a good addition to your teaching methods.
First of all, the blogs posts are the only work you provide in this class, so there is no complaints on it adding too much to your workload. Also, the blogs posts allow for "Night-before-test-studying-". Why is this helpful? Because many students have trouble on studying, or finding what they need to study, and these blogs posts are review tools are can do at home, and look over at any time because we don't need to hand them in. They also have no due date during the week, so someone can wait till the night before the test to get some extra review before a test the next day. The weekly article also brings student applications to your work. The blog posts ask for small excerpts on topics we reviewed, and the weekly article allows the student to apply their own opinion over the topic. The weekly article also gives students something to research, because generally they cover one of the more important topics of our lesson, giving a key indicator for us to search for. However, i do believe the weekly article is too long, because six hundred words may be a standard amount, some topics have less than six hundred word answers and are generally just filled in with useless information so students can get good grades. So i believe each weekly article should have a set number of words depending on the amount able to write on from a general perspective.
The blogs posts are also your only workload besides tests and quizzes, so if some very good student bombs one test before quarters end, what would he or she have to fall back on? We need the blog posts for extra grades in case we screw up one morning or missed an important lecture before a quiz. The weekly article also brings student applications to your work. The weekly article is a good grade because it requires some research, or some strong opinionated thinking on a subject. It's also worth the weight of ten blog posts, which adds a little more weight to our homework grade encouraging students to do their work for the grade. The weight of the article i feel is correct, as it falls under a one to ten scaling. Any more weight added to the weekly article and i feel it'd make the blog posts something nobody would do because they weren't worth the points in comparison, and any less, i would feel obligated to write less, and would make it harder for me to grade my own work before posting it.
The blog posts also go together well with your teaching style. You teach in interesting prezi lectures and fun eventful debates and/or activities. While this way of teaching is the best and gets students to be outgoing, written work is needed for some students to remember things and or study, so the blog posts add a work flow to optimize your teaching. Your teaching is also based much around listening and interact, but little involving notes in comparison, so the blogs and article are good for giving students something to write down, giving them study materials and helping in the singling out of the most important parts of a topic.
Those are the reasons i feel the blogging assessment system is a good system for your class.
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