Assessment 9

I am currently a part of an online and face-to- community.  I am currently a member of a task-force at a university.  Our goal is to develop policies, procedures, and trainings for users of the university’s online courses and programs.  In my face-to-face community; the task force consist of faculty, and one tech support which is myself and we meet once a month.  In the community, we are divided into subcommittees which collaborates on various topics that the task force have decided to incorporate into the online courses and programs.  Even though I feel I play an important role in the face-to-face community; however, I do not always feel a sense of belonging. There is a disconnect between faculty and me a tech support; which I contribute to the different jargons.  However, we do have the ability to evaluate each other work.

Moreover, in my online community where I participate with other tech support and faculty, I have found that there is more a dialogue to create responses to questions asked.  This maybe contributed to that we meet online once a week. I have the opportunity while in our synchronized meeting to be able to create privacy internally.  I can send private chats to ask a question if I am not comfortable posting it to the community as a whole.  I have more time to gather my thoughts before interacting; which helps me tremendously if the subject matter is out of my area of expertise.  I also enjoy being able to always reference our meetings.  We make a practice to archive our online community conversations; therefore, if I need to miss a session, I am still kept in the loop which always me to feel a sense of belonging.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Score
Discussion Topics	Student did not post answer to discussion question	Student posted the answers to the questions but left out required elements	Student answered each question and included required elements	3
Discussion participation	Student responded to none of the discussion questions	Student responded to some discussion questions	Student responded to all discussion questions	3
Assessment Criteria	Student did not compare and contrast communities	Student compared or contrasted communities but not both.	Student compared and contrasted communities	3
Assessment Grammar	Assessment was not on topic, unclear and contained many errors	Assessment was on topic but contained some errors	Assessment was clear and on topic.	3
Assessment Question 1	Student did not answer question 1	Student answered question 1 but did not incorporate it into the compare and contrast	Student answered question 1 and incorporated the answer into the essay	3
Assessment Question 2	Student did not answer question 2	Student answered question 2 but did not incorporate it into the compare and contrast	Student answered question 2 and incorporated the answer into the essay	3
Final Score				18/18= 100%
Comments: Great personal connection! I thought this student used what he or she learned from the PowerPoint and incorporated it into their essay.