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From: Timothy M Cook <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:01:31 -0600
Subject: Tracking students' use of online resources
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>

I hate to use the word "tracking" because it sounds so icky, which maybe this  
is, but I've come across a free website, http://smart.fm, that is basically just  
glorified flash cards -- no earth-shattering pedagogy there -- and I would like  
to have students use it. As a Japanese teacher, I would have students having trouble  
memorizing hiragana and katakana go to there to do the kana exercises. Would anyone  
know how to verify whether students actually used such a service? I'm thinking  
of having them get there through my the LMS, but that would just tell me that  
they went there and how much time they spent, but not that they actually did anything.

Tim Cook, PhD
Japanese Instructor
407B Humanities Bldg., 900 13th Street, South
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mailing Address:
HB 407
1530 3rd Ave S
Birmingham, AL 35294-1260
Cell: (205) 790-2794
http://homepage.uab.edu/timcook/nihongocast

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