Peer Review -the one I completed

I found the Peer Review process very easy to follow as I had listened and made notes from the lecture when Dani spoke about it all. 

I was on prac at the time and decided that I wanted to be fair to the person I was to review and I sent an email to her immediately to receive the URL of her website and blog so I could get it out of the way the first day. I was a little nervous in reviewing as I know what it is like to be an absolute amateur at web pages and blogs! I was hoping to receive some-one who I did not know but this was not the case. The lady who I had to review was in my first year units before she withdrew from uni so I was really pleased to see that she was back at uni but I was also hoping that she would not remember me! 

The rubric was fantastic - so well presented and I felt far more comfortable being able to cross reference everything to the rubric. I have also learnt in Learning, Teaching and Assessment last year to use the sandwich approach "positive, negative, positive.' 

I took the time to look at the website, read it all and then the blogs before I moved on to the assessment against the rubric. When you read some-ones blog and get a feeling of the journey of putting it all together you have a greater appreciation of the finished product. I was able to make my comments using the blog entries as a reference point.

The social resource was very well done as far as the power point presentation of Punchbowl. I followed the directions through and was able to successfully produce an invitation for myself without any hesitation at any point of the procedure. The screen captures were done very well. I could not falter the instructions - I had the proof of being able to complete it for myself as a guide. When I had to comment on the features I thought she could improve on and how I believe I gave constructive suggestions backed up with positive encouraging comments. 

The blog section became a little harder to do, however I once again allowed the rubric to make the decisions for me. I backed up the marks with suggestions that I know will make for a better assessment. My main advise was to use the Blog Guideline

 

The pleasing thing for me was to receive an email from the student thanking me for so many good pointers and for being so encouraging. I have since taken another look at the site and was really impressed to see that she had made changes from my comments. If I was to be doing another review the whole lot would be changed to higher marks and different comments.

On another note I got a little frustrated when I went to submit the review because I had it all disappear into cyberspace and it never registered so I had to do it all again. I had taken this process very seriously and was unable to retrieve a single thing so it was back to the drawing board to get it done promptly. Once again Dani had placed messages on the LMS so I did not feel alone.

I am so embarrased at looking over the review again today and I  have noticed so many mistakes. I am not normally like this but can only put it down to having to do the whole review again in a short time slot. How could I ever have submitted this like that?