Hello everyone, I'm Eva, the star of this week's task. This week we had to fill in a rubrics provided by our teacher where we evaluated some of the tools that we have used throughout the last few weeks.
It was this Wednesday morning that we did a few activities together in class with the already completed rubrics. The teachers asked some questions and, as a group, we had to discuss them. After that, the star, me, had to explained the groups' reflection with the class.
Some of the questions and reflections we did are the following ones:
1. What was the most difficult criteria to assess and why?
Once we had completed the rubric, we had an idea of what were the most difficult criteria to assess. For us it was both Technical criteria and Cognitive presence.
The first one was the most difficult one, mainly because the explanations given in the rubric contained technical words that we hadn't heard before. To complete this part, we had to look for the meanings, understand it and assess.
The second criteria, cognitive presence, was quite tricky for us due to the subjective meaning of it. It depended on the opinions and perspective of either the teacher or the student. Also, some of the descriptions were vague and we didn't really get what that part described.
2. What things surprised of the rubric?
Even though we think that the rubric was acurrate and complete for the task, we were surpsied by something that we realised while filling the rubric. There was a special subcriteria focused on the uses of the tools offline, with no internet conextion.
We were shocked to realise that all the tools we have used needed Wi-fi to work. We didn't even think on using an app or website that didn't require internet. In other words, we didn't have the offline awarness.
3. What is the most important criteria as a student and as a student?
For this question, we did a ranking of all 8 criteria, from most important to less important. these are the two rankings:
As a student As a teacher
1º Functionality 1º Privacy
2º Accesibility 2º Teaching presence
3º Social presence 3º Cognitive presence
4º Mobile desing 4º Accesibility
5º Cognitive presence 5º Functionality
6º Teaching presence 6º Social presence
7º Privacy 7º Social design
8º Technical criteria 8º Technical criteria
4. Create one category and an assessment method.
This was without a doubt the most hard part of the class work. We had to create new categories based on the 8 that were included in the rubric create a method to evaluate the tools with those new categories. These are the categories we created:
Category nº 1: Technical, Mobility design and Privacy
Category nº 2: Social presence, Teaching presence and Cognitive presence
Category nº 3: Functionallity and Accesibility.
Our method is based on the impotance that we gave to each category based on the teacher classficiation in the previous exercise. That is why we gave
Categoty nº 1: 2 stars
Category nº 2: 2,5 stars
Category nº 3: 1,5 stars
With these evaluation criteria you would rate each tool that you use and you would get a mark. Each mark should fall into one of these definitions:
⭐ The tool doesn't let you achieve what you used it for. the tool is useless.
⭐⭐ The tool is usefull, althought it has mistakes both in functionallity and aim. the tool only allows you to do one thing and doesn't give you much flexibility.
⭐⭐⭐ The tool allows you to do a variety of things, but it is very difficutl to understand and to use.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The tool works very well. it is difficult to understand but it gives easy instructions. you get the hang of it quickly.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The tools work perfectly, but it needs regstration and sometimes subcriptions.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The tool works perfectly, it is easy to use for both students and teachers. the tools gives great results and meets the needs of the teacher.
Based on our method, the 9 tools that we chose have gotten these marks:
Instagram 5⭐
Whatsapp 4⭐
Padlet 5⭐
Qr creator 3⭐
Blogger: 5 ⭐
Walfram Widgets 3⭐
Drawchat 4,5 ⭐
Canva 5⭐
Google drive 4⭐
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