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Last year, EAC students in the Networked Cooperative Learning class stated how much they benefitted from doing peer and self evaluations.  Based on that experience, I’m coming up with some possible criteria for midterm self and peer reviews for Spring 2004.  Since the main focus of first half of the semester is spent building a learning community with one another, the purpose of these reviews is to take a moment to reflect on each other’s practices as well as our own.  Reflection is a crucial aspect of any experiential learning endeavour.

The format of these review criteria is inspired by my rewarding experience taking an MEd at the University of Sheffield under the tutelage of David McConnell and Vic Lally.

 Website Achievement

• What is the purpose of your website? Are you achieving the goals that were agreed earlier with your peers?
• Have you made an effort to build on the comments and help received by your peers?
• Have you been meeting the minimum requirements for adding content to your site?

Communication Skills and Social Relations

• Do I understand the contributions from my peers and did they understand me?
• How do I view the social relations of our online learning community?
• Have I made an effort to initiate dialogue?  Give information?  Seek information?  Elaborate?  Summarize?  Clarify?  Seek consensus?
• Am I being encouraging?  Sympathetic?  Do I show interest?  Am I comptetive or cooperative?  How well do I deal with conflict? 
• Am I meeting the minimum requirements for participation in others’ learning via the comment and trackback features?

Reflective Skills

• Is using a weblog as an interactive, cooperative learning tool a process in which I have learned and enjoyed?  Have I contributed to the learning and enjoyment of others?
• Is there evidence of critical thinking and reflection in my postings and comments?

 Participants must provide evidence for the above criteria to support their claims.

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