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EEND676 Artifact 2 -- Creating and Assessing a Collaborative Task

The second EEND676 artifact I want to review is the writing and assessing a collaborative task assignment. Overall, I thought this assignment carried the most practical application in this course, which is why I chose to utilize it for this reflection. I enjoyed thinking of an assignment that I wrote start to finish with collaboration in mind. Generally, in the past, I have used collaboration as an add on. This time around, the assignment was generated to assess student’s collaboration in addition to their content knowledge. The challenge to creating this assignment was how to do three things effectively and authentically: assess students use of technology, their collaboration skills, and their content knowledge for unit 1 (reading and writing standards). Using these three areas and thinking about how I could assess them, really lended itself to me being able to create an assessment that is meaningful. Another challenge I found was once I developed what I wanted to students to do to account for those three elements, I had to figure out how to assess them. I believe the rubric I developed parsed out these elements to assess them both in isolation, and in conjunction with one another.

You can find the assignment and rubric here.

I do see myself using this in the classroom because it does purposefully take the place of the extended essay we would normally complete. Elements of this assignment could be easily swapped out to accommodate different books and themes.

This assignment aided in my growth as it make me consider how to develop an assignment with collaboration at its core, rather than an addition for the sake of asking students to collaborate.

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  1. Heidi MorganNovember 14, 2017 at 5:13 PM

    I love when assignments for grad classes can be authentically incorporated into your teaching. The best thing about this one is that you can easily modify it to work in other situations.

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