Explore and create: Deep-dive Creation lab 
Recorded Session
Virtual Session
ALERT - this was changed to a virtual session so the interactivity was also changed to fit the Virtual enviornment. Addressing increasing the value and success of students creating "learning artifacts" while practicing new literacies. The key tool used will be rubrics developed with NCREL and field-tested to assess student multi-media products. These rubrics were used across nine mid-west states as well provinces in Canada - found valid and reliable. The research findings showed these rubric tools' ability to guide across all grade levels and content areas regardless of the medium of the digital tools. This session will introduce vocabulary - use of the rubric - practice in assessing nine elements - and steps to increase the quality of media-making.
* OPENING: Social Media Tools Go-arounds - intro self - interests, questions and experience [10 min]
* First Plunge - Comparing and Contrasting [2] Elem Media Products [10 min]
* Reviewing Research Benchmarks / Process used for Developing Valid Rubrics
* Types of Communication identified to score content [20 min]
* Overview of Craftsmanship Elements Rubric using [1] student product [29 min]
* Breaking the FOURTH Wall Diminishes Audience Experience [5 min]
* Deep Dive on Guiding and Assessing "Voices" in any Media Products [20 min]
* Deep Dive on Guiding and Assessing "Images" in any Media Products [20 min]
* How can "powerpointlessness" be avoided for all technology mediums? [10 min]
* Six Steps for Exemplar Media Products [10 min]
* CLOSING: Key Take-Aways - What was worthy of our time today? [7 min]
Web Sites
* 21st Century Skills: www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/21skills.htm
* Bloom’s Taxonomy: http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom.html
*California (Bay Area) Writing Project: www.nsdc.org/midbook/write.pdf
* Harvard Project Zero Collaborative Assessment:www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/12.13/10-projectzero.html
*Six Trait Scoring: www.nsdc.org/midbook/trait.pdf
Articles
*Bereiter, C. (1997). Education in a knowledge society [Online]. Available: www. bjpconsulting.com/creating-knowledge.html.
*Coalition of Essential Schools. (1996). Looking collaboratively at student work: An essential toolkit. (Tuning Protocol) [Online]. Available: www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/ view/ces_res/57#3/.
*Looking at Student Work. (n.d.) The Collaborative Assessment Conference [Online]. Available: www.lasw.org/CAC_description.html.
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