For my last tool, I chose to begin playing around with a rubric maker from rubistar.com. This site allows you to use ready made rubrics and choose whatever criteria you would like. The first one I did was from what is called a customizable rubric. I did one for "read to self" time. It was easy and took only about 3-4 minutes. Then I decided to try one of the create your own from scratch rubrics. Louise had told me that it was fairly easy, and so I began. I had a few snaffu's along the way but then started to get the hang of it. Sadly when I went to save all of my hard work, and I do mean time consuming in terms of coming up with criteria, it all disappeared. UGH!!!
Well, I will try again, but a word of caution.... You may want to create your criteria on a word document and then paste it into the rubric before you have happen to you what I had happen to me. All in all, I see this as a relatively simple tool to use and I feel rubrics are essential in the classroom.
Pooh, I'm sorry. I think it's a little confusing when you are finished, but if you save to online you it's there and I think you can always go back and do the print or save to disc.
ReplyDeleteLosing the work really sucks!
No fun. =-( I suppose you could set a 30 minute timer for yourself to make sure you've saved it before the 40 minutes are up . . .
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