WEEK 3--ALTERNATIVE 2: Using Web-based Authoring Tools to Create Quizzes/Exercises/Flashcards/Rubrics/Gradebook This week's goal will be to
try out the applications below and
incorporate
your creations into your Web project (Web site) for scaffolding
(exercises/quizzes/flashcards) and assessment of students' learning (rubric, electronic
gradebook) in a
campus-based teaching environment. |
Expected outcome: Two Web-based tools that you and your students can use in learning and teaching. These activities are fun and NOT time-consuming. Choose from A., B., or C. below to create an exercise/quiz/flashcard and a rubric/checklist or an electronic gradebook. Download any necessary software to your computer and follow the instructions. You may need to activate an application you downloaded by double-clicking the .exe file. Upload the project to the Week 3 Sharing Rubrics/Quizzes/Exercises/Flashcards/Gradebook forum. Include the following for the tools you create:
A. Web-based exercises/quizzes/flashcards as scaffolding instruments
Very popular web tools
for creating classroom exercises include:
Learnclick <http://www.learnclick.com/>
-- for creating online quizzes/exercises: cloze, multiple choice,
matching; share
with students; view statistics; generate .pdf files; works on iPads;
multiple choice: one answer correct or Checkboxes
(several answers correct); Option to display the correct
answers and add an explanation; Cloze: empty boxes or
dropdowns (max. 4), drag & drop
Textivate -- a text reconstruction tool: putting text
into the correct order; filling in gaps; copy and paste your text into
the Textivate window and then click on 'textivate now'. Click SHARE to
share with others (students, teachers
Educaplay <http://en.educaplay.com/>
-- for English, Spanish, French:
Interactive Map, Riddle, Fill in the blanks, Crossword,
Dialogue,Dictation, Jumble Word, Jumble Sentence, Matching, Word
Search Puzzle, Quiz and Collection (mash up); images and sound
can be added to some of the activities
Cloze Passage Builders
<http://www.lextutor.ca/cloze>
-- 3 types: Nth-word and rational deletion cloze,
VocabProfile Clozes (frequency based), Experimental English
N-word with corresponding VIDEO file Virtual Language Center's
ClozeMaker:
http://www.edict.com.hk/clozemaker/
ClassMarker allows
you to create multiple choice, true false, free text, short
answer, fill in the blank and punctuation quizzes online;
complete with instant marking, viewing results; quiz results are
saved in ClassMarker.
Quizlet
<http://quizlet.com>
-- great interactive, collaborative tool with networking page to
create vocabulary flashcards, practice exercises, and tests that generate
random matching, multiple-choice, and true/false questions;
groups allow students to collaborate on sets
FlashcardExchange
<www.flashcardexchange.com>
-- use pre-made flashcards or create your own slide show of
flashcards, with definitions on the back side (flip); then
create memory exercises/games, print, and/or download (export)
them; available for several languages
QuizFaber allows you to create multimedia
quizzes; customizable for background images, colors, sounds and
font types; can embed into quizzes multimedia objects as images,
sounds and videos; can be used in different languages
ThatQuiz.org <http://www.thatquiz.org/>
-- for content and ESL; create your own quiz or use one already made;
free account needed
the
Hot Potatoes web-authoring
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); see Tutorials
and Other Resources for instructions as well as
HotPotatoes Tutorials and How-To's for using HotPotatoes
with audio and video; important note:
Your quiz will only be available for viewing for about 7 days without
paying.
Puzzlemaker
<http://www.puzzlemaker.com> -- A site that
allows you to create puzzles for your newsletters, flyers,
handouts, or classroom assignments Xword Puzzle
Generator:
http://www.edict.com.hk/xword/generator/ Virtual Language Center's
QuizMaker JavaScript Wizard <http://www.edict.com.hk/quizmaker/>
-- includes
QuizMaker Test <http://www.edict.com.hk/quizMaker/quiz.htm> for
simple multiple choice quizzes and several samples
Quibblo <http://www.quibblo.com/?gclid=CP2No93mh5sCFURM5QodHVEqqg>
create quizzes, surveys, and polls
QuizMaker Suite <http://www.attotron.com/pub/quizmaker.html>
-- ... a program to write Javascript quizzes in batch mode from
"human-readable" data files. This program also creates an
automatically cross-referenced hypertext dictionary, and links
terms from the feedback messages of the quizzes to their
definitions in the dictionary. See
molecular biology example quiz sets with dictionaries.
Script-O
Pro -- 30-day
trial; various types of multiple-choice quizzes, matching tests
(Word to Word, Sentence to Word, Definition to Word),
Cloze and Gap-Fill Exercises, Vary the number of tests items,
scores sent to the email address of the student, teacher, or
both, inputting an explanation for correct and incorrect
answers, setting up a password to protect the quiz from students
accessing the online quiz, instant access to test scores saving
hours on grading, restricting access to the quiz once it has
already been taken
Charles
Kelly's Online Quiz Generators -- can be put
on the ManyThings Web site or your own Links to Online Resources for creating
Exercises, Quizzes, Tests in E.L. Easton's
English Online:
http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html B.
Checklists to support Project Based Learning and evaluation (http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/checklist.shtml) -- for writing, science, multimedia, oral presentations Christine's rubrics (used in ESL and business classes)
C. Using an Electronic Gradebook for formative and summative assessment In minutes, set
up an electronic gradebook with
Engrade. School/program accounts or individual
accounts are possible. Gradebooks can be downloaded to Excel and printed
out. Additional features in Engrade include STANDARDS (e.g. objectives)
that you can add and tie your tasks/assignments to, APPS (e.g. a quiz
maker, a flashcard maker, a rubric maker, and a Wiki creator),
Discussions, Attendance, Messaging, and much, much more. Now return to the Week 3 Tasks and Assignments (readings, sharing what you learned, projects). This page was last revised on: August 20, 2012 |