C4T#4

Part 1: 
 

Summary: In What Educators Should Tweet About, Dean Shareski gives examples of what he tweets about such as lyrics, pictures, and beer. He ends his blog post with “maybe in another 8 years I’ll get better” which I found inspirational. We are always going to get better and learn new things. 

 

Comment:

Hello Mr. Shareski,

        I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama and have been assigned to read your blog. I really enjoyed reading about what you post on Twitter. Twitter is new to me, even at a young age! It’s amazing what you can put online and people reply quickly and re-tweet it. I really enjoyed reading your post about what educators should tweet!

Part 2:

Summary: In My Ongoing Struggle with Diffusing the Impact of Grades, Mr. Shareski writes about how he feels about grading and how it is a necessary for teachers to give a number grade. He has students evaluate themselves (1 to 10) after assignments and realized a pattern. There were students who believed they should get 10’s on all the assignments they completed when in reality they didn’t do well compared to what other students did. The students that did very well on their assignment, who Mr. Shareski believed should get a higher score, only rated themselves at a 7 or 8.

Comment:

Hello Mr. Shareski,

        I am a student in EDM 310 at the University of South Alabama and have been assigned to read your blog. I understand the very much discussed topic

about grades. Grades don’t really reflect what the students does and there will be students that either give themselves too much credit or not enough. Personally, I think that evaluation grading is going to be difficult.