We’re delighted to announce that a project Patrick Murray-John, instructional technology specialist, has been working on (in collaboration with a group including Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, and faculty and students from five other schools) was chosen this week by Mozilla to be a part of the Jetpack Design Camp. 
The project, titled “Rubrick,” aims to build a in-browser tool that can be used by faculty to build and share custom rubrics for grading and assessing online student work
Rubrick is built using a coding framework, known as “Jetpack,” for the Firefox web browser. In late 2009, the Mozilla Foundation (which oversees the development of Firefox and Jetpack) announced a design competition for educators. The “Jetpack for Learning Design Competition” invited participants to imagine ways in which they could use Jetpack to develop Firefox add-ons for “rich personal learning.”
Following a conversation that developed on the blog, ProfHacker, a group, including Murray-John and McClurken, decided to begin collaboration on their own submission for the contest and Rubrick was born.
You can read more about the Rubrick project and the Jetpack Design Challenge by visiting the following links:
