Hello!
Thank you for your messages (posts?). I'm still trying to find an easy way to respond to your posts but I'm missing something somewhere - I will endeavour to keep trying...
My reflection so far of activities that we can choose - and I chose questionmark (see earlier post) - is that there is more to Questionmark than my first forage in 2003. Phil has put up a video from Questionmark www.questionmark.com that gives an idea of how it works. I wish I had seen this 5 years ago! It looks really good, actually, though I haven't actually done anything with it yet. From an 'authoring' perspective, I will be able to put up tests, surveys, video and audio to give examples, assessment criteria and a feedback area for students. The voice-over by an American woman, did put me in mind of Desperate Housewives, but once I dragged myself back from Wisteria Lane, I think there is more to Questionmark that meets the eye. The proof will be in whether I can manage to set up and do some of the things outlined.
I'm still watching the video - it has lots of tips that make me think laterally and then I need to think about them a bit, but this could be really useful for some of the formative work that I do with students in our media law module. I will explore and get back to you on this...
Claire
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Showing posts with label Questionmark. Show all posts
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Questionmark
Hello!
Today I dipped into an e-moderating course that I am on and our task this week is to click onto a VLE tool called Questionmark Perception.
I have used Questionmark once before - back in 2003! I used it to test my students on correct Harvard Referencing - yes, I know... but bear with me!
At the time, I didn't really know what I was doing, but with the help of a friendly ICT chap, I managed to devise a multiple choice test. The students thought it was a breeze and they all got 100%!
It was only afterwards that I discovered the software told them if their answer was wrong and then allowed them to have another go - three times... and of course, there were only...ahem... three choices of answer for each question.
The joke was very much on me and having marked subsequent essays from these students over the following three years, their Harvard Referencing was not as good as their test had stated.
Therefore, I am choosing to focus on Questionmark during the e-moderating course so that I can get to grips with what it can do.
I teach media law and each week I have an in-class test (not assessed) to check how the students are getting on with their independent study tasks. I have a feeling that Questionmark could be my saviour and could do this for me, freeing up to 15 minutes of valuable seminar time to move onto to other topics.
I'll let you know how it goes, Claire
Today I dipped into an e-moderating course that I am on and our task this week is to click onto a VLE tool called Questionmark Perception.
I have used Questionmark once before - back in 2003! I used it to test my students on correct Harvard Referencing - yes, I know... but bear with me!
At the time, I didn't really know what I was doing, but with the help of a friendly ICT chap, I managed to devise a multiple choice test. The students thought it was a breeze and they all got 100%!
It was only afterwards that I discovered the software told them if their answer was wrong and then allowed them to have another go - three times... and of course, there were only...ahem... three choices of answer for each question.
The joke was very much on me and having marked subsequent essays from these students over the following three years, their Harvard Referencing was not as good as their test had stated.
Therefore, I am choosing to focus on Questionmark during the e-moderating course so that I can get to grips with what it can do.
I teach media law and each week I have an in-class test (not assessed) to check how the students are getting on with their independent study tasks. I have a feeling that Questionmark could be my saviour and could do this for me, freeing up to 15 minutes of valuable seminar time to move onto to other topics.
I'll let you know how it goes, Claire
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