"I'll Evaluate the Hell Right Outta Ya!" -Dr. Cox on "Scrubs"

For my final, my 9th graders are doing podcasts, so I created a rubric that is based on my paper rubrics. It has no points, just comments, and I just choose the grade. I figured it's hard to evaluate people's thoughts and opinions about literature, so the rubric basically just sticks with 1) Is everyone participating 2) Are they offering good open questions or poor yes/no questions 3) Is the text being used/cited during the discussion? and 4) Does the conversation flow well or does it jump around too much?

I like those criteria, and after it's all done the mp3's are posted to my blog where the students can go and listen to other groups and comment on them. My comments come written on the rubric. I would like to play around with recorded comments because I think you can say a lot, but I haven't totally figured out how to do that or with which projects/papers to do it.

I'm putting my rubric on the ning.