Developing class materials: interactive exercise creators
(Week 4: Jan 30-Feb 5)
Moderators: Fernanda Rodrigues (Portugal), Marijana Smolcec (Croatia), Svetlana Obenausova (Czech Republic) & Teresa Almeida d'Eca (Portugal)
Guest presenters: Arjana Blazic (Croatia), Cláudio Azevedo (Brazil)
By the end of this week you will have:
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Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
ViP:
Task 4
http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662 (Time converter)
Task 5
Join us for Cláudio Azevedo's presentation "From Darkness to a Sparkling Connected ELT Community" at the Elluminate Webheads vRoom on Saturday, February 4, at 17:00 GMT http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=273662 (Time converter)
Interactive exercise creators
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No registration needed | Registration needed |
Hot Potatoes [download] |
Script-O! ("not free"; has a free 30-day trial period) |
Web Sequitur & Web Rhubarb [download] (demo version is free) |
ProProfs (has one free section) |
Quandary [download] | Quizstar |
Eclipse Crossword [download] - great for printing out the exercises, can also create html exercises. |
Quizlet |
DJordan's Self-Scoring Quizzes |
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ClassMarker |
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Educaplay | |
Online worksheets |
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No registration needed | Registration needed |
Tools for Educators | Worksheet Wizard |
Online Surveys and Poll creators |
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No registration needed | Registration needed |
SurveyMonkey |
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Zoomerang | |
Other tools |
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No registration needed | Registration needed |
Crossword Compiler (professional version is not free; there is a demo version that you have to download and install) |
Quia ("not free"; has a free 30-day trial period) |
Self-check
I have....
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Assessment for learning: Improving feedback in interactive exercises. Mar. 2011. (Based on HotPot exos.)
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."
Godwin-Jones, Robert (2007). Creating interactive Web exercises for language learning.
Torres, Isabel Perez (2003). Creating Materials Online with Free Teacher Tools. TESOL Spain, Newsletter 2003.
(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: http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm ;
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