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freetools	Cameron McKinley
Pizitz Middle School

Free tools:

**Indicates favorites that I use frequently!

Site	Description	Advantages	Disadvantages	Uses
** www.quia.com/web/	Site to make class pages, links, quizzes, surveys, calendar.	Easy to use and update Lots of ready-made quizzes Can add HTML tags Can use Word to design info. and then paste into Quia easily Can develop quiz sessions and get immediate results for both students & teacher. All pages and activities you create are stored under the same user name and password. Don't have to enter a roster to use testing features. Now allows images and sound for pages.	Can't categorize links (but can use different pages to separate ideas and links) Could also number links to help order them. Cost: $49/year after 30-day trial. (Well worth it!)	Daily instructions Handouts Group Activities Quizzes/Tests Organized Link Lists Contest Results Guided Reward Activities Java games for test review Recognition Parent Open House Parent Info. page and links Tips Rubrics Surveys
** http://www.filamentality.com/wired/fil/	Make hotlists, treasure hunts, scrapbooks, webquests, samplers	FREE Fairly easy to use Guided tour Fill-in-the-blank format Can categorize links Nice search feature to find ready-made activities No advertising	Can't use pictures A few more steps to change the page than Quia If you want to use HTML tags you have to use your own web server to store the pages No quizzes Each page you create must have a different password.	Hotlists Treasure Hunts Scrapbooks Webquests Samplers http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listintegratca.html
** http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml	Backflip is the easiest way to save and share important things you see on the Web. You can use it from any computer.	Free Easy to use Works on any computer with Internet access Can choose to share your sites with others through public folders. Can export your list to your computer as a web page for backup.	If Backflip is down, you don't have access to your links. However, it is rarely down and you can always backup.	Save and organize favorite links on the web.

Site	Description	Advantages	Disadvantages	Uses
www.Inetsurvey.com	Create Online Surveys	Fairly easy to use Can get feedback from students, parents, faculty	Limited to 100 responses or 1-month use then must pay.	Surveys, Feedback
http://www.formsite.com	Create Online Surveys or Use for Activity Registrations	Provides Feedback E-mail updates sent as users provide feedback	Not sure because I haven't used it. (Recommended by Tech in Motion)	Surveys, Online Registration
http://www.12teach.com	Create Quizzes	Powerful	Must pay if questions on all tests exceed 100 Must create student rosters to have a quiz session	Online Testing
http://www.lessonpro.org/home/writers_access.htm	Lesson Pro-Create online lessons with links and an optional quiz.	Free and easy to use. Step by step process. Lots of help when designing-follows outline. Allows Pictures	A little difficult to get logged in to your lesson and edit but not too bad. Only multiple choice questions available for quiz. No recording of scores.	Online lessons with attached quizzes.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/	Hot Potatoes includes six applications to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the Web. Hot Potatoes is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.	Make detailed quizzes.	Must download software. Must have web server to store pages. More skilled users only.	Make online quizzes.
http://www.eduhound.com/hotlist/	Eduhound Hotlist Creator	Easy to use and update format Choose color scheme and "mascot"	No quiz, just Hotlist	Make a Hotlist of links for a student activity.
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/	Web Quest Creator	Easy to use Simple format. Posts to web immediately	Cannot put active links in it. Not customizable.	Create a web quest format.
http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3	QuizStar- create online quizzes	Create online quizzes Include Multiple Question types Group students by Class Name Activate & deactivate quizzes	Students get feedback but teachers couldn't get feedback for true test. Site sometimes down.	Create online quizzes.
http://www.funbrain.com/quiz/index.html	Funbrain's Quiz Lab	Create quizzes with a variety of question types.	Must have different logins to keep track of different classes. Score feedback through e-mail only.	Create online quizzes.
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html	Discovery School's Quiz Center- a powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes	Create online quizzes Get feedback	Must load classes to get Discovery School feedback Site sometimes slow.	Create online quizzes
** http://www.gaggle.net/	Gaggle Free Student E-mail	Allows you to have free, safe e-mail for students. Teacher controls features Good User Instruction Guides	Free version has Advertising Teacher must set up e-mail accounts Sometimes slow	Use for student e-mail projects -check the web for many global projects involving e-mail.
** http://www.netmechanic.com/toolbox/html-code.htm#html_sample	Link Check from Net Mechanic will check your web page links to see if any are broken!	Keeps your pages up to date.	If page has more than 25 links, it only checks the first 25 for free. After that, you pay.	Keep your pages up-to-date by making sure you don't have broken links.
Example of how to use the free tools together: You could create a class rules page, a handout page and a quiz on Quia, create a writing activity, webquest or other activity on Filamentality or one of the other web activity sites. Then, use Filamentality to create a home page with links divided into categories for all of your other pages and activities. Have kids develop a survey using one of the survey sites for other students to take based on a unit or use a Quia survey to find out how to make your own class better. Remember to use Backflip to make sure the sites you find are with you wherever you go! Export these sites to your computer at least once a month for backup. You don't want to lose all of your favorite links! Use LinkCheck to keep your pages current and find broken links.

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Last updated 2008/09/28 02:26:40 CDT

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