Class Rubric

How will I be graded in CSDT? 

Your grade each marking period will be calculated from the following:

1. Learning task assignments

2. Weekly project effort grade

3. Biweekly ePortfolio assessment grade

At the end of the year your entire eportfolio will be graded and count as the final exam at a value of a whole marking period.

Learning task assignments

Learning task assignments will be posted in our Google Classroom weekly. There will be more learning tasks in the beginning of the year as we learn about the design process and tool use.  These may be done during class all together, or as a break from project work, or as homework. 

Project Effort 

While you work day to day on your project, you will be expected to stay focused on your work for the full class period. Each week you will receive a grade out of 100 points for your effort in planning, preparing, project execution, clean up and SAFETY.

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A possible scenario:

"But Mr. Blizzard I can't work because the glue is drying, the material isn't here yet, the tool is being used..." If you can: 

1. Do research for your project (or your next project) to try to understand the next steps you might take. 

2. Do something else related to your project

3. Help someone else with their project. 

4. Work on learning tasks

Making up work

Project effort grades can NOT be made up. Once the week is over and you have received your effort grade, it is in the past. The only way to improve project effort is showing effort every day in class for the full class period. You have to think this class is like being "on the job", working steadily throughout each class period. This is a good work ethic.

Learning Task assignments can be redone up until two weeks before the end of the marking period. When an assignment is made up, in order to get credit and have the grade changed in Schooltool, you must fill out this form and submit it. Click here

The Eportfolio

You eportfolio will be the place you put everything you learn this year. When you make stuff, you will learn how to plan, how to design, how to research, how to measure, how to use tools on different materials. You will learn math, physics and history. You will make mistakes and fix those mistakes. You will have feelings and new ideas. 

👆ALL of this information should be in your eportfolio. 👆

Sooooo what do I put in the PROJECT PAGE of my ePortfolio?

answer: Content! Be a content creator!

What is "content"?  Content is:

• • words that describe how you did something or what you learned

  • pictures of your project at each step of production

  • videos of your project or you making it, showing a process 

  • links to videos and tutorials that you used to help you. 

  • Evidence of learning

  • Mistakes that you learned from should be included! No embarrassment. Learn like a toddler. 

  • Entertainment What makes a Youtube Maker famous? They entertain while they teach you something. Entertain!

  • Hint: You will find that assignments in Technology class will sometimes result in providing you with FREE content that you can copy/paste into your website. 

• Why do we make an ePortfolio? 

  • Storytelling: Technology is a story. Tell the story of your learning, so that others can learn too. Date your entries so it has the appearance of a journal, a story.

  • When you reflect on your learning by writing it down, you will put it in your long term memory. This is much better than taking a test where you memorize things and then forget them the next day. 

  • Making an excellent website is a 21st century skill.  This will help you start and maintain a  business, get a job or attend a college someday.

  • You can think of your ePortfolio as your for this course. Your ePortfolio is where you present what and how you learned. Assessment of your ePortfolio is worth about half your grade.

• Who will see my ePortfolio?

  • Your instructor, classmates, and maybe other teachers, the school administration and the Board of Education. 

  • Anyone with the link to your website that you share it with.

  • Your ePortfolio is NOT searchable on the internet. No one can find it by searching your name or Newfield or Technology or ePortfolio or all of these terms.

• What is this "Project 2._____" page?

  • The year is long and you could do more than one project. If you finish your first project, start a second project. Project 2 is not required. But you could do a 3rd project too!

  • Finishing project 1 is not required either. Crazy, right? BUT finishing your ePortfolio IS required.  You are required to focus full effort daily toward your project. You will encouraged that you finish a project. 

  • Note: Some projects are larger and under construction for more than this year. Your piece of a larger project will be considered your Project 1 or Project 2.

End of Year REQUIREMENT: 

At the end of the year, your eportfolio will be assessed. Your final Project Page should have at least one video 3-5 minutes long that you made to explain some part of the design process, one longer written reflection piece about each of the steps of the process, and minimum five photos that tell the story, along with captions/descriptions of what each photo is showing in the process.