| 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

Week 4

This version was saved 8 years, 1 month ago View current version     Page history
Saved by Svetlana Obenausova
on January 31, 2016 at 7:22:27 am
 

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  

 

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
  • Create two  exercises using the tools you like
  • Post the link to your exercises or quizzes and place their links or embed them in your wiki or blog
  • Now you can explore another tool and create another exercise if you like. Remember to share the link of your wiki or blog with us through G+week 4 once finished. 
  • If you have any problems, send your questions through G+ week 4 

 

Task 2

  • Create an account in Edmodo as a teacher and then join our class called ICT4ELT2016 using this code: jjavuh
  • 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 let us know through G+ week 4 so we can have a look

 

 

Task 4 

  • Follow other participants announcements in G+ week 4 
  • 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 Google+ community - Tips from participants

 

 

Task 5

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

 

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. 

 

 

 

 

 

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
  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 Google.
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 at least one tool (interactive exercise, worksheet or survey)
  • created at least one activity with one of these tools and posted the activity link to the Participants' Production Page and in my blog/wiki
  • commented on exercises or quizzes of other participants in the Participants' Production Page 
  • commented on the readings using our Google+ community

 

 

To get a badge for this week, you need to

  • create at least one exercise using one of the tools suggested and place it in your blog or wiki 
  • create one quiz or survey (other than Edmodo) and place it in your blog or wiki
  • Please remember to place all the links to the Participants' Production Page for us to know about them
  • Create a quiz or poll in Edmodo 

 

 

 

Suggested readings 

 

 

 

A short note: HotPotatoes terms of use have changed:

"Hot Potatoes is now freeware. The complete version of the programs is now available for free, from the Downloads section . The free version of Hot Potatoes for Windows is version 6.3, and the Java version is 6.1."
"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source."

 

 

 

(This article focuses on this utility of the Internet. Some sites are presented where teachers can easily design activities and exercises online, such as quizzes, tests, puzzles or surveys, which require no advanced computer skills. Included are only those tools that are free for educational use for obvious reasons.)

 

A short note:

2 of the sites mentioned in the article no longer exist; one is Headline Makers:  lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index;

when you click on the link you get the message: The server at lang.swarthmore.edu is taking too long to respond.

You can find the old site here and a new one here

 

The other is Trackstar; the link takes us to a site about Online Casino and Gambling; the present site is:

http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp

 

 

Looking for more inspiration?

 

 

 

 

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.