Today we took our first quiz on Quia.com. Apart from the great space between students in the library, I think that the program is going to be a great success. Students get instant feedback from their quizzes and they get their scores instantly, which will help them to determine what they need to study. I did run into a problem with using the media center. It becomes too difficult to monitor the class for questions and to make sure everyone is doing their own work. In the future, I would like to take the class to computer labs, but I think that our capacity in the media center computer labs is 31 and I have a class of 32 and a class of 33. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. If anyone is even reading this blog.
After getting the test scores back, it seems as though the students did alright, but there were a few issues. One, I did not explain the concept of a parallax very well, the computers might have thrown them off a bit since it was their first time, and I think students might have rushed through it. We shall see. I am very optimistic about this technology because although it takes some time to get things set up, I do not have to grade much and the students get instant feedback. Anyway, all in all it was relatively successful.
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