FTT - Published Goobrics

From "New Visions Cloud Lab"

Shared By Professional Educators For Professional Educators

@joe_edtech

It's funny - in life in general, I am not a collectivist. I believe strongly in the power and rights of any individual to pursue his or her own passions and to achieve based on that pursuit (yes, I do know that Thomas Jefferson said it better). However, in education, I very strongly believe in the power of collaboration. Whether we work in PLCs inside our buildings, or PLNs made up of real and ethereal connections, there can be little doubt that there is a lot to be gained from the shared resources of our professional educators. Maybe it is one reason I bristle at the idea of treating schools like businesses. We aren't creating widgets and the power isn't in competition with one another, but in collaboration to provide as many opportunities for students as we can. - And that in a nutshell is why I believe so strongly in both the Google Education Community and the movement to pursue Open Educational Resources for schools, both topics I've written about in blog posts before - here and here. When we create resources that are good for students, and share them with other professionals, we have the potential to improve things for an exponentially greater number of students than the moments when we work in isolation.

Andrew Stillman and his fellow geniuses at New Visions Cloud Lab have been creating and sharing awesome educational resources for a number of years, and their library continues to get more impressive. I have already written about some of their awesome add-ons, like autoCrat, and just a few weeks ago I wrote about integrating Doctopus and Goobric with Google Classroom. 

Goobric, my loyal readers (Mom) will remember, is a tool to integrate writing rubrics pretty seamlessly into Google Docs. One of the very few drawbacks to Goobric was that there weren't many exemplars or samples to choose from. Recently, New Visions Cloud Lab went a long way towards solving that problem by posting libraries of "Goobrics" to their website. So far they have posted rubrics from New Visions for Public Schools, the Literacy Design Collaborative, and the New York Department of Education, which has already been a huge contributor to the OER movement.

The libraries of documents can be added as "View Only" docs to "My Drive" in Google Drive. From there, you can use them as is and attach them to any assignment as a completed rubric. Or, as is the case with any Google Doc, you can make a copy and adapt the rubric to your assignment.

This is a great addition to the New Visions Cloud Lab arsenal, and it promises to grow.