Article Reflection

Article Reflection

1. Find an article that is informational, a success story, an opinion piece, how-to, event story, or research. The article can be found in an online journal, personal or group blog, online magazine, news outlet, or educator/media specialist website.
2. Write a reflection blog post about the article. This reflection is to be in essay form (not numbered list) and is to include the following points:
1. Summarize the main ideas from the article
2. Identify and explain something you learned that you didn’t know or something you find interesting.
3. Explain how you might use the subject of this article in your future classroom - or - discuss why you would not use it.
4. Identify and define a new technology term.
3. For your blog post, also provide 3-4 tags (so that others may search by keyword) such as learning, teaching, wiki, K-12 (or specific grade), history (or other content area)
4. Create a citation for the article in APA format - A great resource for quick citation is Son of Citation Machine - http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?start=#
5. Use a URL shortener to reduce the size of the article URL – Google has a URL shortener found at  - http://goo.gl/
   
   

Spelling and grammar count! Check your work.

I am not asking for a specific length reflection but would expect that you will write enough to complete your thoughts and satisfy the assignment.

Consider putting in an image, graph or chart to add interest in your blog post

Rubric

	Exemplary	Satisfactory	Inadequate
Article Information	Name, Author and Date are present in header	Some article information is missing	Article information is missing
Summary	Two or more main points discussed	One main point discussed	Did not discuss a main point
New Idea	Identified and explained a “new idea”	Identified a “new idea” but did not explain	Did not identify or explain a “new idea”
Personal Use	Explained with details or examples how the subject of the article might be used in a future classroom - or - why it should not be used	Explained in very little detail how the subject of the article might be used in a future classroom - or - why it should not be used	Did not explain how the subject of this article might be used or should not be used in a future classroom
New Term	Identified and defined a new technology term	Identified a new technology term	Did not identify or define a new technology term
Spelling and Grammar	2 or less errors	3-5 errors	more than 5 errors
Citation	Article is cited in correct APA format	Article is cited but not in APA format	Article not cited
Tags	3-4 tags	1-2 tags	tags are missing