{"id":1069,"date":"2012-11-16T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2012-11-16T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:28:29","slug":"assessing-blogs-and-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"Assessing blogs and forums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an extremely interesting post and discussion here : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nadinemuller.org.uk\/blog\/e-musings\/\">http:\/\/www.nadinemuller.org.uk\/blog\/e-musings\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, students don&#8217;t like the idea of posts to blogs or discussion forums being assessed. They feel they have to be careful how they write (because the work is assessed) in a way that doesn&#8217;t seem natural in the normal &#8216;informal&#8217; setting of a blog or forum.<\/p>\n<p>Being more explicit about what you are assessing might help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an extremely interesting post and discussion here : http:\/\/www.nadinemuller.org.uk\/blog\/e-musings\/ Basically, students don&#8217;t like the idea of posts to blogs or discussion forums being assessed. They feel they have to be careful how they write (because the work is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1069\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[413],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}