Midterm Evaluation Criteria

Website Achievement

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