Week 4

Exploring Edmodo and interactive quizzes

  

(Week 4: Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2017)

 

 

 

 

Moderators:

Elizabeth Anne (France), Sanja Bozinovic (Croatia), Behice Ceyda Cengiz (Turkey)

 

Guest presenter: Arjana Blazic

 

 

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 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 and 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
• Create two interactive exercises using different tools 
• Place the  links or embed two exercises in your wiki or blog
• Now you can explore another tool and create another exercise if you like.
• Share the links to your exercises  in our G+ week 4 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 ICT4ELT2017. The code for joining:  vd7zej. 
• If you already have an account in Edmodo, log in to your account, search for ICT4ELT2017 class and use the code vd7zej to join.  
• 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 
• Create your own quiz and poll and check how other participants solved it

 

 

Task 3

• Explore the software for creating online surveys (from the table below)
• Create an online survey (using tools other than Edmodo) for your students or for participants of this ICT4ELT session, and place the link to it into your blog or wiki 
• Once you complete the task please send the link also to G+ week 4 so we can check.

 

 

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 G+ Tips from participants 

 

 

Task 5

• Read this week's readings (at the bottom of this page) and if you have any comments, post them in our G+ Week 4 Readings

 

Week 4 Live Session is on Monday, 30 January, 19.00- 20.00 GMT. More information on the Live Sessions page.

 

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
• Eclipse Crossword
• PhotoPeach used for quizzes 
• Kubbu
• How to create Match activities 
• How to prepare Kubbu quizzes with Composer 
• Educaplay 
• My example 
• Hot Potatoes - this is standard tutorial from the producers of HP, underneath you will find our tutorials with pictures.
• Configuration of exercises
• More about crosswords
• Reading comprehension exercises
• Inserting pictures
• A video tutorial on inserting pictures viewable online 
• Uploading your exercises to the Web
• How to upload your HP exercise to our wiki and create a link that opens the exercise without the download 

 

 

 

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 at least two of these tools and posted their 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 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 (other than Edmodo) using at least two of the tools suggested and place them in your blog or wiki 

• create a quiz and poll in Edmodo

• create one survey (other than Edmodo) and place it in your blog or wiki

 

 

Please fill out this form so that we can send you your badge.  

 

 

 

Suggested readings 

 

• Computer-based language learning with interactive web exercises (2011). (Mainly based on Hot Potatoes; presentations at an Italian Conf.: ICT for Language Learning, Oct. 2011)

 

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."

 

• 7 ways to create and deliver online quizzes (2013) (in: Richard Byrne: Free Technology for Teachers)

 

• Web 2.0 teaching tools 

 

 

 

 

Looking for more inspiration?

• http://www.edhelper.com/vocabulary.htm
• http://elllo.org/ - Very good for listening practice.
• http://www.digibridge.net/teresadeca/school/activities.htm - Teresa's Web-based Activities
• https://ict1olomouc.wikispaces.com/  Svetlana's wiki with many examples of interactive exercises and other tools.