Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching: Telecollaboration in Language Learning

Task: Analysing telecollaborative projects

This task builds on the foundational concepts that you learned in the previous section and aims to develop
your understanding of how a telecollaborative project is organized by analysing project descriptions. A further
aim of this task is to help you grow ideas about your project and, possibly, find partners.
As a first step you should browse the following resources and find a telecollaborative project that is close to
your interests:
https://iearn.org/assets/general/2016-2017ProjectBook.pdf
https://iearn.org/cc/space-2
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsnpr/
http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/bp/
https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/projects/kits/kit.cfm?id=261
You have to read carefully the project description and you are asked to write an essay of about 700 words
discussing:

the extent to which the project corresponds to the goals of telecollaboration

the web 2.0 tools used for the implementation of the project

the design of the tasks

the strengths and weaknesses of the project

other issues you consider important

The essay will be assessed on the basis of the following rubric. This task contributes 20% of the variance of the
final overall course grade. Suggested deadline for submission: end of the second Section.
Category
Content

4
content

3
2
The
is The content is quite The content is, at
focused
and focused
and times,
somewhat
consistent.
consistent.
vague or only loosely
related to the task.
Content
Appropriate evidence Appropriate
Some information is
documentation and documentation is evidence
and not referenced. Some
used. Citations are documentation
is citations may not be
relevant
to
the used, yet from a relevant
to
the
argument and they limited number of argument or from
are from credible sources.
Few sources
of
low
sources.
citations may not be credibility.

1
The content is
unclear
and
generally off topic.
There
is
poor
documentation of
information. Only
few citations are
relevant to the
argument and from
credible sources.

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Content
organization

Organization is wellsuited to the task.

The introduction is
inviting, states the
main
topic,
and
provides an overview.
Information
is
presented in a logical
order.
The
final
paragraph
summarizes the main
points of the text.

relevant
to
the
argument or from
low
credibility
sources.
The content is well
organized for the
most
part.
The
introduction is clear
and provides an
overview.
Information
is
presented in a quite
logical order. The
final
paragraph
summarizes
most
aspects of the text.

References
Citations
are
and reference referenced according
list
to
guidelines.
Reference list
is
complete.

Grammar

Citations are mostly

referenced according
to
guidelines.
Reference list is
almost
complete.
There are some
minor errors or
omissions.
There
are
no There are three or
misspellings
or fewer misspellings
grammatical errors.
and/or grammatical
errors.

The
organizational
structure appears to
be
flawed.
The
introduction is not so
clear and confuses the
reader about the topic
of
the
text.
Information
is
presented
in
a
somewhat
logical
order.
The
final
concluding paragraph
is missing or lacks
important elements of
the text.
Several citations are
not
referenced
according
to
guidelines. Less than
half of the citations
appear
in
the
reference list. There
are several errors.
There are several
misspellings
and/or
grammatical errors.

There is no logical
organizational
structure.

Citations do not
follow
guidelines
and there are many
citation errors. The
reference list is
incomplete.

There are many

errors in spelling
and/or grammar.

This rubric is licensed under a Creative Common License Attribution 4.0 International. Everyone is free to share and/or adapt the rubric even for
commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit to the author is provided. This citation may be used: Konstantinidis, A. (2017). Analysing
telecollaborative projects Rubric. Telecollaboration in Language Learning module, Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching
programme, University of Nottingham, UK. Retrieved from: [url]