Final thoughts...

I was really interested in the productivity tools blog prompt, just because I did not realize how much is out there for teachers to utilize. I was least intersted in the prompt about evaluating a game. I think if there was one prompt to drop it would be this one, just because we had had several prompts about games, and it was after our PowerPoint games were due. I don't think the prompt about the productivity tools or the prompt about blogging should be dropped. I feel like we covered all the things I had expected to cover and then some. I really enjoyed learning to use all of the tools offfered in this course.

Rubrics

I prefer a more open-ended rubric. This allows the students more freedom for their projects and ideas. This also allows the teacher to give grades on more of an individual form rather than as a unit. The only pit-fall to this is that the teacher would not want to know whose project he or she was grading until after he or she gave the final grade, so to prevent giving preferiential treatment.

As a kindergarten teacher, I would most likely use an open-ended rubric for projects. Most of the work given to Kindergarten students are mostly worksheets. With these types of assignments, it is pretty clear cut, right or wrong answers. With writing assignments, however, I could use a rubric with various evaluation criteria to award points accordingly. For example, the criteria I could use could be clarity, stays on topic, grammer, and vocabulary. Another time I could use rubrics could be when the students do a long term project like a webquest.