EDIT 7340
Researcher's Virtual Notebook
Assignment Description and Rubric

Value: 10 points

updated 8-13-08

Task

• Continue the same Notebook begun in EDIT 7320.
  
• Last semester's minimum outline included:
• Overview
• Research Idea
• Problem Statement and Justification
  
• Literature Review
• Annotated Bibliography
• Article Notes
• Literature Graphic
• Presentation of Literature Graphic
  
• Methodology
• Results
• Discussion
• Basic navigation (perhaps on the side or bottom): link to your Assignment Page and/or other UGA materials; Resources (bookmarks)
  
• For this semester, at minimum, expand the outline to incorporate new components: Researchable Question, Design, Instruments and Materials, and Progress Report of AP Initialization.
  
• You may also want to create storage for other useful project-related materials of your choice.  For example, you might link to a del.icio.us tag page where you "keep" bookmarks related to your project.
• The new outline might look like this:
• Overview
• Research Idea
• Problem Statement and Justification
  
• Literature Review
• Annotated Bibliography
• Article Notes
• Literature Graphic
• Presentation of Literature Graphic
  
• Methodology
• Researchable Question
• Design
• Instruments and Materials
  
• Results
• Progress Report of AP Initialization
  
• Discussion
• Basic navigation (perhaps on the side or bottom): link to your Assignment Page and/or other UGA materials; Resources (bookmarks)

• The relationship between this AP Virtual Notebook and your Assignment Page is up to you. It would be fairly easy to have two organizer pages, linked to each other, each organized logically, but linking to many of the same items.
  
• Self-assess on the rubric provided below.
  
• Keep this Notebook up to date.  While assignments will be submitted to WebCT dropboxes for grading, you never know when I will need to see everything in context.  This notebook provides context for me.  You will find that it does the same for you.  If I need to see something from the Notebook later on and it's not there, I may dock your score even after this assignment is graded!
  

Guidelines

• It does not have to be beautiful.  Try to make it mechanically clean.  Above all, it should be easy for you to update.
• Sans serif fonts like Verdana and Arial are far more readable than serif fonts for online and projected materials.
  
• Depending on your tool of choice and levels of access provided, keep privacy in mind.  Throughout the project, protect confidentiality of yourself and any participants or institutional stakeholders.  In other words, don't publish things that would compromise or embarrass people.  If you need to provide materials that might compromise someone's identify, provide a pointer to a file hidden behind a password. For example, say
  

Submission Format

• Submit the URL to the Notebook Page Keeper, so that we might have a handy page that references each classmate's Notebook.  If you change your URL later, notify the Keeper!
  
• Finally, submit the URL to the dropbox along with the rubric below.
  

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