Sunday, we had to turn in interim grades, and I spent Monday in class reviewing with the students where in the process they were and what they were to have posted to be able to demonstrate to me their progress.

The following were some of the evaluation criteria:

•Was their learning log up to date?

•Was their basic animation completed, tested uploaded to their files page and subsequently placed in their projects page in the Other projects section?

•Were two game evaluations (one for a professionally designed game and one for a student designed game ) posted on the projects page under the Playing to learn section?

•Was their blog updated:

I explained again, how we, as instructors, are to say no to tests and how their work becomes transparent by making it public. I used the example from Bill about the 60 Minutes interview with James Cameron regarding his new movie, Avatar and the collaborative nature of the work in moviemaking.

I hope it continues to sink in—that there really is a rhyme and reason to the public posting of the work and the social nature of collaborating.

Students spent Monday and yesterday pretty much re-examining their work and postings up to this point and hopefully that will continue to be an ongoing thing. Once their buttons are completed and tested, they too are to be uploaded to their projects page.

Time will tell, it usually does.