Task 6 Evaluate Proposals and Gather your team

Task 6. Evaluate Proposals and Gather your team

Read the other students’ proposals. Select two proposals and give them feedback using the provided rubric. Decide if you want to join another proposal. If so, contact that student and make arrangements to work together. Groups can be any size. You may also include people who are outside of this course. Let me know who is in your group.

To view which proposal has been assigned to you:

1. Go to Task 5 where you submitted your own proposal.

2. Look in the upper right hand corner. You will see the name of one other student. Click on that name to view their proposal.

3. All students are randomly assigned one proposal to review. This ensures that every proposal receives at least one review. For your second review, tell me the name of the proposal you wish to review. I will manually add it to your list so that you can post comments on their submission. 

To view all the proposals: 

1.  Go to Project Proposals Page 1 (You can also get there by clicking on "Projects" from the home page. There are two pages of proposals under the Projects module.)  

To submit your review:

1. Do not submit your feedback here. Instead, go back to where you submitted Task 5. Look to the upper right corner and click on the name of the student whose proposal you are reviewing. 

2. You will be able to see their proposal, as well as a few comments from me. Complete the rubric there.

3. Then answer the questions (listed below) and paste your answers into the comment box.

Note: There are no right or wrong answers to the rubric. The questions in the rubric offer practice with the concepts we have been learning. Your written comments below will help give the student ideas and focus for moving forward.

The goal here is not to *evaluate* the proposal. Rather, your goal as a reviewer is to give useful, specific, and kind feedback that can help this student create a successful and worthwhile project. Remember to use the Principle of Charity. (Imagine, for example, your friend is submitting a grant proposal, and you want to help them get the grant. Offer your feedback in that spirit.)

(Note also that the rubric has “point values.” These point values are meaningless, so ignore them. I’m using Canvas in a way it wasn’t designed to be used, and assigning dummy points was the only way to do it).

Questions for reviews:

1. What is the title of the proposal you are reviewing?

2. What do you like about this proposal?

3. In what ways might traditionally marginalized groups be affected by putting this proposal in practice? In what positive ways? In what negative ways?

4. What is the biggest obstacle to enacting this proposal?

5. How can the plan avoid or overcome the obstacle you just mentioned?

6. What is something new you learned from reading this proposal, or a new idea it gave you?

7. What important information or considerations are missing from this proposal?

8. What is one suggestion you have to help this proposal succeed?

9. What further resources are you aware of than could be useful for helping this proposal succeed? (Articles, websites, organizations, people, ideas)

General comments?

Write your answers in the comment box next to the student's proposal. Your answers will be visible to the student who wrote the proposal, to me, and to any other students who review this proposal. (2-3 sentence answers are fine.)

If you are thinking about joining in with someone else's proposal

1. Contact the student directly. Ask if they are accepting team members. Tell them what interests you about their project, and what you can offer. (To contact another student, send that student a message via Canvas Inbox, or go to Collaborations to see if they posted their contact information.)

2. If you decide to join up, every team member should send me a message via Canvas letting me know.