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Criteria Ratings Points
Review Synthesis
30 to >27 pts
Advanced
The candidate identifies 3 or more apps of particular concern for educators and parents that are potentially dangerous for children and teens. The candidate provides an excellent brief description and image for all three required apps and reveals 2 or 3 possible risks for all three required apps when used by school-age students. The candidate includes at least two news items for each app as evidence of the app's risks and dangers to children. All news items have been published within the last six months. The apps provided are not already commonly known but represent new threats (an allowance is made for widely known apps if the student focuses on a new danger recently identified in the news for these apps).
27 to >24 pts
Proficient
The candidate identifies 3 apps of particular concern for educators and parents that are potentially dangerous for children and teens. The candidate may not provide an excellent brief description and/or image of one of the required three apps and may not reveal 2 to 3 possible risks for one of three required apps when used by school-age children. The candidate may include less than two news items for some apps as evidence of the app's risks and dangers to children. Some news items may not have been published within the last six months. At least one app provided is already somewhat commonly known and does not fully represent a new threat (an allowance is made for widely known apps if the student focuses on a new danger recently identified in the news for these apps).
24 to >0 pts
Developing
The candidate may identify less than 3 apps of particular concern for educators and parents that are potentially dangerous for children and teens. The candidate may not provide an excellent brief description and/or image of two or more of the three required apps and may not reveal 2 to 3 possible risks for two or more of three required apps when used by school-age children. The candidate may include less than two news items for all apps as evidence of the app's risks and dangers to children. Many news items may not have been published within the last six months. At least one app provided is already very commonly known and does not represent a new threat (an allowance is made for widely known apps if the student focuses on a new danger recently identified in the news for these apps).
0 pts
Not Present
30 pts
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Criteria Ratings Points
Resource Identification and Relevance
20 to >17 pts
Advanced
The candidate sufficiently disseminates information from the FBI and attorney general resources. In the presentation, the candidate references and includes a direct link to a minimum of one relevant FBI resource for each of the three required apps that he/she covered. Within a new section of the presentation, the candidate includes the name of his/her state's attorney general and contact information and sufficiently shares examples of information and news items from the attorney general's website regarding children and Internet/social media risks. The candidate encourages parents to contact the attorney general to recommend additional safeguards for children. A direct link is provided in the presentation for any attorney general resources referenced. Each FBI and attorney general resource has been published within the last twelve months.
17 to >16 pts
Proficient
The candidate generally disseminates information from the FBI and attorney general resources. In the presentation, the candidate may only reference and include a direct link to one relevant FBI resource for two of the three required apps that he/she covered. Within a new section of the presentation, the candidate may not include the name of his/her state's attorney general or contact information and may only somewhat sufficiently share examples of information and news items from the attorney general's website regarding children and Internet/social media risks. The candidate may only somewhat encourage parents to contact the attorney general to recommend additional safeguards for children. A direct link may only be provided in the presentation for most attorney general resources referenced. It may be that only most FBI and attorney general resources have been published within the last twelve months.
16 to >0 pts
Developing
The candidate minimally disseminates information from the FBI and attorney general resources. In the presentation, the candidate may only reference and include a direct link to one relevant FBI resource for one of the three required apps that he/she covered. Within a new section of the presentation, the candidate may not include the name of his/her state's attorney general and contact information and may insufficiently share examples of information and news items from the attorney general's website regarding children and Internet/social media risks. The candidate may minimally or may not encourage parents to contact the attorney general to recommend additional safeguards for children. A direct link may only be provided in the presentation for some attorney general resources referenced. It may be that few FBI and attorney general resources have been published within the last twelve months.
0 pts
Not Present
20 pts
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Criteria Ratings Points
Significance 15 to >13 pts
Advanced
The audio portion of the presentation sufficiently emphasizes the significance of the concerns that are being discussed in this assignment.
13 to >12 pts
Proficient
The audio portion of the presentation somewhat adequately emphasizes the significance of the concerns that are being discussed in this assignment.
12 to >0 pts
Developing
The audio portion of the presentation inadequately emphasizes the significance of the concerns that are being discussed in this assignment.
0 pts
Not Present
15 pts
Warnings, Safeguards, and Relevance
15 to >13 pts
Advanced
The candidate sufficiently discusses warnings and safeguards that should be put in place for child safety on the Internet. The candidate completely and accurately uses knowledge gleaned from all of the following to support the presentation: personal experience; current news items published within the last six months; and professional literature sourced from the JFL and published within the last 12 months.
13 to >12 pts
Proficient
The candidate generally discusses warnings and safeguards that should be put in place for child safety on the Internet. The candidate completely and accurately uses knowledge gleaned from most of the following to support the presentation: personal experience; current news items published within the last six months; and professional literature sourced from the JFL and published within the last 12 months.
12 to >0 pts
Developing
The candidate insufficiently discusses warnings and safeguards that should be put in place for child safety on the Internet. The candidate completely and accurately uses knowledge gleaned from little of the following to support the presentation: personal experience; current news items published within the last six months; and professional literature sourced from the JFL and published within the last 12 months.
0 pts
Not Present
15 pts
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Monitoring and Blocking
15 to >13 pts
Advanced
The candidate sufficiently concludes the presentation with endorsements for the best parental monitoring tool and content blocking tool. The candidate briefly defends his/her recommendations based on features, cost, etc.
13 to >12 pts
Proficient
The candidate somewhat sufficiently concludes the presentation with endorsements for the best parental monitoring tool and content blocking tool. The candidate somewhat briefly defends his/her recommendations based on features, cost, etc.
12 to >0 pts
Developing
The candidate minimally concludes the presentation with endorsements for the best parental monitoring tool and content blocking tool. The candidate minimally briefly defends his/her recommendations based on features, cost, etc.
0 pts
Not Present
15 pts
References 10 to >9 pts
Advanced
The candidate provides all or nearly all of the timely and relevant sources requested by the assignment. All or nearly all sources meet their relevancy time length requirement (6 or 12 months) as dictated by the assignment instructions. All needed in-text citations and citations within the references and credits slides are present, cited in proper current APA format.
9 to >7 pts
Proficient
The candidate provides most of the timely and relevant sources requested by the assignment. Some sources may not meet their relevancy time length requirement (6 or 12 months) as dictated by the assignment instructions. Only most needed in-text citations and citations within the references and credits slides may be present cited in proper current APA format.
7 to >0 pts
Developing
The candidate provides some of the timely and relevant sources requested by the assignment. Many sources may not meet their relevancy time length requirement (6 or 12 months) as dictated by the assignment instructions. Very few needed in-text citations and citations within the references and credits slides may be present present cited in proper current APA format.
0 pts
Not Present
10 pts
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Criteria Ratings Points
Audio Quality 15 to >13 pts
Advanced
The presentation includes the candidate's sufficiently audible voice. The audio is clear without any instances of a distracting ambient noise. The audio has smooth transitions (rather than harsh or abrupt cuts). Sound is well balanced throughout the presentation.
13 to >12 pts
Proficient
The presentation may only include the candidate's generally audible voice. The audio may only be generally clear with only one instance of a minor distracting ambient noise. The audio may only have generally smooth transitions (with potentially one harsh or abrupt cut). Sound may only be somewhat well-balanced.
12 to >0 pts
Developing
The presentation may only include the candidate's somewhat audible voice. The audio may only be somewhat clear with several instances of distracting ambient noises. The audio may only have somewhat smooth transitions (with more than one harsh or abrupt cut). Sound may be not very well-balanced.
0 pts
Not Present
15 pts
Length 6 to >5 pts
Advanced
The presentation meets or nearly meets the 10 minute length requirement (if not perfectly met, it is no shorter than 9 minutes and no longer than 11 minutes).
5 to >4 pts
Proficient
The presentation misses the 10 minute length requirement by some margin (it is between 8:00-8:59 minutes or between 11:01-12:00 minutes).
4 to >0 pts
Developing
The presentation misses the 10 minute length requirement by a wide margin (it is less than 8:00 minutes or more than 12:00 minutes).
0 pts
Not Present
6 pts
Accessibility 9 to >8 pts
Advanced
The candidate provided a link to the finished presentation. The link worked for the instructor to view the presentation in its entirety.
8 to >7 pts
Proficient
The candidate provided a link to the finished presentation but the link presented limitations to the instructor's ability to access the presentation.
7 to >0 pts
Developing
The candidate did not include a link to the presentation and/or the link did not work.
0 pts
Not Present
9 pts
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Criteria Ratings Points
Professionalism 15 to >13 pts
Advanced
The final presentation is professionally formatted with quality slide design based on standard best practices for slide design. All required sections are included with adequate detail. There are no errors in, grammar, punctuation, or spelling. All hyperlinks the candidate is requested to provide are all functional. The presentation includes a title slide, references slide(s), and a credits slide with all needed copyright attributions for images, etc.
13 to >12 pts
Proficient
The final presentation is generally professionally formatted with quality slide design based on standard best practices for slide design. Most required sections are included with adequate detail. There are a few errors in grammar, punctuation, and/or spelling. It may be that only most hyperlinks the candidate is requested to provide are all functional. The presentation may not includes a title slide, references slide(s), or a credits slide with all needed copyright attributions for images, etc.
12 to >0 pts
Developing
The final presentation is minimally professionally formatted with quality slide design based on standard best practices for slide design. Some required sections are included with adequate detail. There are many errors in grammar, punctuation, and/or spelling. It may be that only some hyperlinks the candidate is requested to provide are all functional. The presentation may not includes a title slide, references slide(s), and/or a credits slide with all needed copyright attributions for images, etc.
0 pts
Not Present
15 pts
Total Points: 150
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