BTEC Media Unit 12: Web Authoring A guide to peer and self- evaluation In order to achieve a pass, merit or distinction in this unit it is vital that you are able to describe (P4), discuss (M4) and explain (D3) your work. In order to help you do this, everyone will get an opportunity to evaluate the work of someone else in the class. This is called peer evaluation. Once you have had an opportunity to do this for someone else, giving him/her a realistic assessment of what they have achieved, you should be able to reflect more successfully on your own work and have an opportunity to improve it before the final assessment. Remember, it is important to describe, discuss and explain what you have done on the ePortfolio site itself. You need to demonstrate learning in these four areas: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Know about web authoring Be able to plan a website Be able to produce a structured website Be able to review own website
To help you, here are some examples of the kind of language you need to use for each criterion: PASS - Describe E.g. 1. ‘I used a combination of drag and drop widgets in my design to lay out the pages’ 2. ‘My website will have five pages. Each page has a white background and header. Some pages are divided into two columns.’ 3. ‘Some of the pages in my website contain hyperlinks to external sites.’ 4. ‘I spent some time brainstorming my initial ideas and produced my plan. This took me two lessons.’ MERIT – Discuss 1. ‘I edited some of the HTML in a custom widget to increase the size of a YouTube video player. I did this by changing the pixel dimensions.’ 2. ‘My website will have five linked pages: About Me, Blog, Interests, Documents and Contact. Each page has a similar look with a simple white background and custom header which I created in Photoshop. I created a mindmap using Mindmeister, an online tool, to illustrate the structure of my site.’ 3. ‘I chose to create a Contact Me page with a link to my own email address as one way of encouraging visitors to the site to leave feedback.’ 4. ‘I spent two days brainstorming my initial ideas and produced my plan using an online mindmapping tool. I followed my plan and I think my website is quite good, all the links work, the text is readable and the images are placed well on the page and do not cover any words.’ DISTINCTION – Explain