Interactivity #5 Feedback

Interactivity #5 required you to remix a PLAYground canvas from Interactivity #4 to collaborate with another content area. Your canvas should have contained a unit plan in your content area that complemented the unit plan on the original canvas. Your weekly blog entry should have explained the logic behind your remix and linked to your remixed canvas. The good news is that 78% of the class earned a B or better on this assignment. The not so good news is that the remaining 22% did not earn a passing score.

To (re)view the specific requirements for Interactivity #5 [click here]. All Interactivity #5 scores are now posted in Engrade. The class average score was 8.3 out of 10 points. For a class breakdown of scores by last 4 digits of your CWID [click here].

Michelle and I were especially impressed with the following creative, thoughtful and even complex remixes (Note: the links below lead to the blogposts as entry points to the remixed canvas):

• Introduction to Unit Plan on Geometry of Circles (remixed with Shakespeare's representation of hierarchy) [click here]
• Ancient Egypt Remix (Art and History) [click here]
• Poetry Anthology Lesson (and Music)  [click here]
• The Civil War and Clay Animation  [click here]

If points were deducted from your own score, pay careful attention to the points breakdown. Were the deductions in content, technical, comments and/or the blogpost? Here were some of the reasons for points deduction (in no particular order):

• Canvas did not contain an explanation of the new unit;
• Canvas content lacked cohesion and/or visual organization;
• Comment widget missing
• Image gallery non-functional
• A link to the original canvas was not included (if the original canvas did not transfer in the remix);
• No thumbnail image to identify the remixed canvas.
• Incorrect title of the canvas and/or blogpost;
• Insufficient tagging of canvas;
• Poor grammar and/or spelling in blogpost or canvas
• Excessive word count in narrative blogpost

This culminating interactivity challenged your ability to integrate media toward a curricular end. Most certainly it tested your technical ability. You may (or may not) decide to use the PLAYground as a tool in your own teaching. The determining factors should be the extent to which you want students to create, curate, connect, and collaborate using the Web. It's about a participatory pedagogy.