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Assessment Criteria

Class Participation 30% of grade. This is very important because the majority of meetings will be held in cyberspace. In cyberspace, if you do not participate you don't exist.

Assessment Criteria

You will be assessed as to the quantity rather than the quality of your participation. This does not mean, however, that 'me too' responses are appropriate or indeed even counted. This class is an online post-graduate seminar and you are expected to complete the readings and to participate in the class discussion.

Excellent

Active participation in 70% or more of the online discussions during the semester.

Average Active participation in 50-69% of the online discussions during the semester.
Fail

Active participation in less than 50% of the conversations during the semester.

*note: this means total discussions - including multiple discussions in each weekly topic - not weekly topics

Group Website

30% of grade. Submitted by November 18, 2005. Email BOTH instructors the URL of your site and make sure that the site has BOTH your names on it somewhere. If you need server space you need to tell me early in the semester so that I can set up up an account on the server for you. If you waint until the last minute to request server space and the account cannot be created in time for your submission will result in you failing this assignment.

Tips on using FTP for moving your website to the server:

Dr. Missy's FTP Tutorial


Assessment Criteria

Assessment will focus on how well you and your partners have researched the topic as well as how well you have worked together to integrate the information that you have gathered individually into a seamless whole.

We should not be able to tell which one of you did what part of the work. This is a team effort.

Design considerations should focus on displaying and ordering information into a logical structure. Even though this website is a 'page of links' you need to make it more informative than just a 'bookmarks' page.

Excellent

Website shows a high degree of logic and consistancy in design and structure. Information has great depth and is ordered in such a manner that the user will find it an excellent source for finding information related to the topic.

Average Website shows a degree of logic and consistancy in design and structure. Information has some depth but there are some problems in usability and navigational aims.
Fail Website shows lows levels of logic and consistancy in design. Information is scarce and the user has difficulty in making sense of the navigation.

Personal Essay

30% of grade. December 10, 2005 (post marked by December 10, 2005) Turned into the Arts, Media Design Office by mail or in person if you are a Staffordshire student. Purdue students will submit by

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Assessment Criteria

This is just what it says... a personal essay.. a reflective essay. It should document and reflect on the different methods you've used for communicating and learning in this, Digital Culture, module.

Excellent

Essay shows a high degree of reflection and analysis of the teaching/learning experiences you've encountered in this online class. It is a thorough, critical assessment of the different communication experiences. It weighs the possitives and negative of each one and how each applies to communicating and working in the modern world. It is also well written with few or no grammar and spelling errors.

Average Essay shows some degree of reflection and analysis of the teaching/learning experiences you've encountered in this online class. It lacks thoroughness and its critical assessment of the communication process is superficial. There is some understanding of how the different communication processes applies to the modern world. There are some spelling and grammar errors.
Fail Essay shows little reflection and analysis of the teaching/learning experiences you've encountered in this online class. There is little or no understanding of how these communication processes and subjects apply in the modern world. There are many spelling and grammar errors.

Typical errors students make with this essay is that they discuss each process separately rather than integrating them into a whole.

* If English is not your first language you should have your paper checked and proofed by a native speaker. You are expected to communicate in a proper written style. Allowances will not be made because English is not your first language.

Tips and Notes

Staffordshire University students: your Personal Essay must be snail posted to me or turned into the Arts, Media and Design office (do not turn it into the School of Computing or any other school on campus) personally.

If you turn it in personally you will complete an assignment receipt and it will be date stamped by the Office who will give you a copy of the receipt. KEEP IT!

Don't trust someone to turn it in for you.

I am not responsible for an assignment not getting turned in on time because you gave it to a friend, a loved one, another lecturer, etc... and that person fails to submit it by the due date.

My mailing address:

Melissa Lee Price
Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
PO Box 660
College Road
Stoke on Trent ST4 2XN

I strongly suggest that if you snail mail these you do so registered mail (or whatever it is called in the UK).That way you have a receipt that you put it (or something) in the mail by the due date.

When the office receives the envelope they will have to sign for it... and you should get a receipt from the Post Office that the envelope was delivered.

If you decide NOT to send your work in via registered mail you are taking a chance that in the event it is lost in the mail you have no proof that you turned in the assignment on time.

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