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Disadvantages |
Uses |
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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!)
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Site |
Description |
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
Uses |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html |
Discovery School's Quiz Center- a powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes
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Create online quizzes
Get feedback |
Must load classes to get Discovery School feedback
Site sometimes slow. |
Create online quizzes |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
