2 hours of your time?

In one of my teaching classes we are learning about assessment and creating rubrics. I asked my professor for some help in perfecting the rubric that I use to rate movies for this site. He understood everything with only looking at it for a minute or two and saw how it could be used, this is a good sign. We talked about the rubric for a few minutes, I explained how I want it less dependent on me, more mathematical, and less subjective. Each film is getting graded a few times: good teachings, bad teachings, content, and age level.

The way I rate movies is by writing down a list of all the good and bad things it teaches, or make a list of cool people and what they do and disliked characters and what they do. Then I look at that list the same time as the rubric and then give it the rating.

My professor then told me that I need to have some other people use my rubric to see how robust it is. If many people watch a movie and give the same rating then the rubric is a good one, if not, then I have some things to change or clarify.

I need some volunteers. I need a few people that can use my system and rate the same movie and then we all compare notes. Come find me or email me and we'll choose a film and a time once we get enough people.

On a side note: I'm also collecting movie quotes, If you'd like to help then write down the good quotes from the next movie you watch (exact wording is sorta important) and email them to me, this is going to be a big post (a reader participation post), which is going to get updated a whole stinking lot.