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Nelly's Musings

General Blog about my everyday life as a college Professor who teaches Computer Science, mom. wife, geek, paranormal and exercise enthusiast.

My Search for Student Blog Evaluation Rubrics

Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 23:38 in education, blogging, twitter, shared, grading, pln, rubric

I currently have one of my freshman level classes blogging and doing other web2.0 type activities to earn 40% of their class grades. I have thought about how I should grade the blogs and decided to ask my Twitter Personal Learning Network (PLN) f... ...
Short Student Assignment Yields Lots of Learning

Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 22:14 in education, learning, graphics, multimedia, gif, png, assignment, tiff, jpg

Last week, I decided to make up a very small assignment for my college level Multimedia Presentations Class. The assignment was to use a royalty free picture site such as Http://www.sxc.hu to find 10 Jpg formatted photos in a topic relating to mu... ...
A Video Created for the Net Generation Education Project

Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 22:32 in education, internet, Parents, future, public, cyber-safety

This is an amazing video created as a keynote for the Net Generation Education Project In a nutshell, students are asking today's schools to stop the practice of blocking websites. They state this practice is preventing the future from being a pa......