Comment on Tonya Cornelius's post: This is really what I focused on as well, when I went through this section. 

We want to retain our students and in doing so we want to have not only frequent connections with our students but also quality interactions.

The megarubrics was a new concept for me.  I think its a great idea for rubrics to be evaluated by the school. 

I thought that the piece that shared about making sure it was fair to ESL students (or the like) was a great point.  We need to be aware of our own educational biases and expectations.  

Someting I really like about rubrics, and this module talked about it, was how rubrics can be used for self-assessment and peer-assement.  That way students can see for themselves what needs to be improved and can use it among their peers. 

I use a rubric for the three essays in my English Reading & Composition course. I was thinking of making a simple one for the annotations but can see how rubrics can be limiting for creative type classes.