Assessment will be by coursework only. Submissions will be both electronic (viz. the portfolio you compile in your personal blog) and, for the benefit of the internal moderator and external examiners, on paper. When submitting paper version, substitute for any online media (videos, slideshows, podcasts, etc) in your electronic version a short description and summary together with the URL.
The in-course assessment will be by portfolio, based on tasks you will have commenced in the workshops (though it is expected that work begun in workshops will be completed in personal study time). The portfolio you will be assessed on will be marked as follows:
- your review of a Web 2.0 application [10%]
- a ’social networking’ web site based on Ning [30%]
- a ‘mashup’ web presence [30%]
- a report on web marketing [20%]
The remaining 10% will be awarded for the general overall quality of your portfolio. It’s consequently in your best interests that you should take your blog very seriously: ensure that comments are enabled, for example, and encourage your friends to add comments; blog things you discover that seem interesting and relevant, e.g. other Web 2.0 sites you may have found; add interesting resources to your blogroll; add the blogs of your peers to your blogroll; show that you care about and take pride in your module blog, for example with regard to design, content, spelling, layout; and, of course, ensure that you fully document assignments 2 and 3 in your blog … and don’t forget to include the URLs for assignments 2 and 3, as I’ve otherwise no way of finding them!
For full details of the requirements for each element of assessment, see the individual listings for assignments in the sidebar.
A note on marking and feedback
It’s my firm belief that the setting and marking of assignments should be geared towards maximizing your opportunities for successful learning–and for iteratively improving your skills and knowledge–rather than a timetabled ‘jumping of hurdles’. What you should be taking into the world when you leave university is not just a piece of paper that shows that you’ve ‘passed’ this, that, and the other–it should also be a fund of real learning that you can proudly and confidently bring to your job.
During the period of the taught course, I shall endeavour to post, via this blog, generic feedback on overall group performance in each assignment within 3 days of the earliest published submissions. For feedback on your individual performance, send me an email request to review your work when it is in a good draft and I’ll respond with specific comments within 3 days, though your final grade will be given only at the end of the course. The generic and individual feedback should, together, help you to improve your work for final submission.
A numbered listing of your assignments is given in the sidebar.
A note on late submission
You must meet all deadlines set. Failure to do so will result in a penalty.
Work submitted late but within a week of the deadline will be capped at 40% and receive a grade of LP (Late Pass) unless it is not of a passing standard in which case it will receive a grade of LF (Late Fail). Work submitted beyond a week of the deadline without approval will get 0% with a grade of F0.
If, however, you have a serious problem which prevents you from meeting the deadline you may be able to negotiate an extension in advance. In the first instance you should contact the Student Liaison Officer, Holly Rook in the Student Office for advice. However any extension will need to be obtained from your Module Leader who will sign your mitigating circumstances form and agree a new hand in date. Your work will then be marked without penalty.
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