Interactive exercises and quizzes
(Week 4: Feb 3 - Feb 9, 2014)
Moderators:
Larisa Olesova (Russia), Helen Davies (France) and 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 shared them with the community
- posted links to your creations in the Participants Productions page
- attended a live session on the topic of the week
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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
- Make a short test exercise when you find a tool you like
Task 2
- Create an exercise for one-two of these skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary or grammar
- You can also use the exercise makers for CLIL - e.g. teaching history or geography through English
- post the link to your exercise in your slot of the Participants Productions page
Task 3
- Explore the software for creating online surveys and quizzes (from the table below)
- Create an online quiz or survey for your students or for participants of this ICT4ELT session
- post the link to your survey or quiz in your slot of the Participants Productions page
Task 4
- Go to the Participants Productions page and have a look at exercises or quizzes of other participants
- Place your comments in the slot provided to two or three of them, try choosing those that have not received feedback yet.
Task 5
- Embed the exercise (if you used Learning Apps) in your wiki or blog, or save your exercise as a file in your wiki (Hot Potatoes, Quandary, etc.)
- Place the link to your survey in your wiki or blog or embed your survey there.
Task 6
- Join us for our online session - to be specified.
Here are some useful tutorials to get you started
- Hot Potatoes - this is standard tutorial from the producers of HP, underneath you will find our tutorials with pictures.
Tools to explore
Self-check
I have....
- explored at least one tool (interactive exercise, worksheet or survey)
- created at least one activity with one of these tools
- posted the activity link to the Participants' Productions page and in my blog/wiki
- attended the live session/listened to the recording
- commented on the live session
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Suggested readings
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Babicka, B. and Nevaril, J. (2008). Hot Potatoes - How Not to Get Burnt. (Interesting hints on the usage of Hot Potatoes. After opening the file, click on the text to enlarge it.)
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
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