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Week 4

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Exploring Edmodo and interactive quizzes

(Week 4: Feb 1 - Feb 7, 2016)

Moderators:

Elizabeth Anne (France) Svetlana Obenausova (Czech Republic)

Objectives:

By the end of this week you will have:

explored different tools to create online interactive exercises, quizzes, and surveys
created activities using some of these tools and placed them in your blog/wiki
announced in Google+ week 4 the completion of your tasks
commented on exercises or quizzes of other participants in the Google+Community once they announce they have completed their tasks
explored Edmodo, created your own quiz or poll there and solved other people's quizzes or polls

Activities

Task 1

Read about the possibilities of the tools in the Suggested reading below
Choose one or two interactive exercise makers (from the table below) and explore them.
Choose other ones if you don't like your first choice
place the links or embed your exercises in your wiki or blog
Now you can explore another tool and create another exercise if you like. Remember to share the link to your exercises in our G+C interactive exercises category so that others can try them out
If you have any problems, post your questions there too

Task 2

Create an account in Edmodo as a teacher and then join our class called ICT4ELT2016 using this code: jf7bez
Watch Edmodo tutorials underneath if you need help
Solve some of the quizzes and polls prepared by your moderators and other colleagues in class for you in our Edmodo classroom
Since you signed up to Edmodo as teachers, you can create your own quiz and check how other participants solved it

Task 3

Explore the software for creating online surveys and quizzes (from the table below)
Create an online survey for your students or for participants of this ICT4ELT session, and place the link to it into your blog or wiki
Once you complete all tasks please let us know through G+ week 4 so we can have a look

Task 4

Follow other participants announcements in G+ week 4 interactive quizzes
Go to other participants wikis or blogs and answer the survey questions in other participants' surveys
Provide feedback to other participants as a reply to their announcement in G+Week 4
If you know other interactive exercise makers you are very happy with, you can share the links through our PB works - Tips from participants. or through G+

Task 5

Read this week's readings (at the bottom of this page) and post your comments on the readings to our G+Community week 4 reading.

Here are some useful tutorials to get you started

Learning Apps - Choose the language of the tutorial by clicking the flag in the upper right-hand corner. And here is just one example of a possible exercise for inspiration.

The easiest way to start with this tool is browsing apps of other people, choosing one you like and then clicking the button Create similar app. Then you erase the content and leave just the template of the exercise. You need to create your account to do that, of course.

Edmodo -

A brief overview
how to create a poll
how to create a quiz
A video tutorial for teachers
If you want to use Edmodo with your own class, here is a full tutorial

Survey Monkey: Creating an account and a first survey
Web Sequitur and Web Rhubarb tutorial
Quandary tutorial and examples of mazes

A tutorial with screenshots and another example

Educaplay

My example

Hot Potatoes - this is standard tutorial from the producers of HP, underneath you will find our tutorials with pictures.

Tools to explore

Interactive exercise and quiz creators
No registration needed, you need to download them though	Registration needed
Eclipse Crossword [download] - great for printed worksheets, yet you can also create html exercises.	Learning Apps highly recommended, easy to use and exercises look really good
Web Sequitur & Web Rhubarb [download] (demo version is free)	Edmodo - you can create quizzes for your classes and see students' results. This can be done only once you create a teacher's account and create your own class there
Quandary [download] There is a detailed tutorial above	More optional tools for those who want to experiment more:
Hot Potatoes [download] There are detailed tutorials above with pictures and explanations	Educaplay It is very easy to create exercises here, just view some samples in their gallery and start your own. Their video quizzes are worth watching.
	Quizstar you can create online quizzes for your students, these will be automatically graded
	Quizlet - you can use a large database of activities or create your own
	PhotoPeach quizzes
	Quizalize - you learnt about it in the live session
	Kubbu
Online worksheets
No registration needed	Registration needed
Tools for Educators	Worksheet Wizard

Online Surveys and Poll creators
No registration needed	Registration needed
Google account holders can create easy surveys through their Drive - you need to create a Form, as it is called in your Google drive.	SurveyMonkey the best tool for your surveys
	Edmodo - you can create polls for your classes once you create a teacher's account
	Micropoll
	Survey tools - a selection of 9 tools
	Surveys and polls - a selection of 10 tools

Self-check

I have....

explored several tools (interactive exercises, worksheets or surveys)
created at least two exercises or quizzes with one or two of these tools and posted the activities links into my blog/wiki
created one survey and placed it in my blog or wiki
commented on exercises or quizzes of other participants in their wikies or blogs placed in the Participants' Production Page or when they sent the links to their quizzes in week 4 interactive quizzes
commented on the readings using our Google+ community

To get a badge for this week, you need to

create at least two exercises or quizzes using one or two of the tools suggested and place them in your blog or wiki
create one survey (other than Edmodo) and place it in your blog or wiki
Create a quiz or poll in Edmodo, solve some other people's quizzes or polls in Edmodo
Inform us through G+ Week 4 after you complete all tasks