Individual formal assessment
In the digital media class scenario, formal assessment is done through a personal blog with tags. The learners maintain a Google Blogger site with daily posts of their activities. They add labels to each post and cross reference them against the units of study. This is the basis of their formative assessment. They link the RSS (atom feed) to Moodle as an external blog so that other people in the class can see and be inspired by what they are doing.
Moodle is not used to record their academic results. It is there purely as a collaboration and motivation space to encourage and reward effort and process. The Gamification techniques proposed in this book do not have to contribute to the final grades at all. They can sit alongside your traditional marking system. You could view them as practice exercises to build up competence and confidence.
The blogs became quite large with a wide range of work showing how each person had progressed. So, at the end of the year, the...
