Reflection

Lesson Reflection
 Projects for my class will be created on computers using technology so it is vastly important that my students understand what they can and cannot use under Copyright and Fair Use laws. Starting with an online pre-test created by The Copyright Society gave me an understanding of what my students already knew about Copyright and Fair Use. This also let me know where I needed to start the lesson on these topics. The quicker I can receive feedback on what my students know or need to learn the quicker I can implement the necessary lessons.

My students used technology to learn about Copyright and Fair Use laws so I felt it was more appropriate to use technology to evaluate what they had learned rather than pen and paper. Utilizing QuizStar to create an online quiz over the presented material kept the students focused on the technology component of the unit. Using the online quiz also allowed me to assess what my students had learned quickly and easily.

QuizStar offered me reports on overall class performance, individual student performance, and question analysis. Overall class performance let me see quickly that my students understood Copyright and Fair Use. By utilizing the online individual student and question analysis, I was able to see right away if I needed to reteach to individual students or if I needed to rework specific questions. These are all reports that would have taken me several hours to prepare by hand after hand grading pen and paper quizzes. By making use of an online testing tool more immediate feedback was available to my students and me.

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