Topics - Choice & Relevance
Regular Posts
Marks3-4
The posts are short, usually just 1 or 2 sentences. They don’t have structure or flow. The posts look like they were written very quickly. They don’t often contain links or photos.
The simple posts do not have insight, depth and are superficial. The posts are short and are frequently irrelevant to the events and the audience. They do not express the writer’s opinion clearly and show little understanding.
The posts are irregular. Events are not blogged as they occur.
Most of the comments on the blog have no replies. The writer rarely writes comments on other students’ blogs. The comments have little relevance to the post.
The posts have some structure, but the entries do not always flow or show connection between entries. The blog post may contain a link or image.
The blog posts show some insight, depth & are connected with the topic. Posts are typically short and may contain some irrelevant material. There are some personal comments or opinions which may be relevant to the task. The posts shows some understanding of the topic. The posts show insight & depth. The content of posts are connected with the topic. The blog posts may contain some irrelevant material but are mainly relevant to the task. The student's personal opinion is expressed in an appropriate style & the posts show good understanding.
The posts are sometimes regular with most key events being blogged.
Some comments are replied to. The writer writes a few comments on other students’ blogs. The comments have some relevance to the post and attempt to engage the author. Most comments are replied to quickly. The reply shows understanding. The writer leaves comments on other students’ blogs. The comments are usually relevant to the post and engage the author.
The blog posts show insight, depth & understanding. They are connected to the topic. Posts are relevant, will interest the audience and there are links to supporting material. The student's personal opinion is expressed well & is clearly related to the topic. The posts and opinions show a good understanding, connecting learning activities with learning outcomes.
All events are Comments are replied to blogged quickly. The replies show regularly. good understanding & relate to the comments. The writer regularly leaves comments on other students’ blogs. The comments are relevant to the post and engage the author.
9 - 10 Marks
Marks7-8
Blog Organisation
Marks5-6
Quality Blogging for Language Learners - A Rubric
The posts are well structured. The posts flow and have connection between the entries The journal posts contains appropriate links or images. These are referred to within the text. The posts are well structured. They flow and there are connections between them. The posts contains appropriate links or images, and the image sources are usually written. The writer talks about the images and links in the text.
Most events are blogged as they happen.
Replies & Commenting
Accuracy & Expression The post or posts have very bad spelling and contain grammatical errors. These errors make it difficult to understand what the writer is trying to say. The language is simpl Some of the posts have bad spelling and contain grammatical errors. The errors sometimes make it difficult to understand what the writer is trying to say. There are not many spelling or grammatical errors. These errors rarely make it difficult to understand what the writer is trying to say. The spelling and grammatical errors are rare. The blog posts have structure and make good use of sentence and paragraph structure.
Many Authors Hopefully! Adapted from Andrew Churches “Blog Journalling Rubric” Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License.
Quality Blogging for Language Learners - A Rubric Words you should be thinking of: Interpreting, summarising, inferring, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, blog journalling, commenting
Many Authors Hopefully! Adapted from Andrew Churches “Blog Journalling Rubric” Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 License.