Tuesday 20 July 2010

Simple online activities in law using short answer questions

Here are some examples or recent developments in law I have been working on. I'll evaluate them in september.

Purpose - students needed to develop skills in writing and reviewing legal documents, particularly letters to clients.

Short Answer Questions we used short answer questions in blackboard which are standard in bb tests. These allow students to write short statements an a particularly question, this is then revived by the lecturer, but a model correct answer is also revealed to the student and can be used as feedback. Students need to write legal documents and write them.

Activity 1
We use past short examples of student work of various levels, and allow students to review them online. Each paragraph is numbered. Corresponding short answer boxes were made available in blackboard. Students comment and once completed the model answer for each short answer reveals the correct, or suggested changes. Once the process is complete the full example document with comments is released.The lecturer reviews a few answers and discusses the issues the next week in the face-2-face session

Activity 2
Students receive instructions to write a short legal letter for a particular situation. Students fill in short answer boxes with guidence as to what should be contained in each paragraph. The model answer reveal suggested construction of the finished document.
The student input is quickly reviewed for next weeks face-2-face and discussed in class.

Although these need to be evaluated, the show the range of activities that can be produced from simple tools

 

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