I added all the Exercise Creator sites to the Staff page of the website just now. I only added tools that work on Macs. Let me know here if you try any of them. I've tried Study Place, Hot Potatoes and Quia so far. Hot Potatoes and Quia are great for creating stand alone exercises. Study Place is a CMS (Course Management Software) that you would use to create a class page. Students would then log on and have access to your lessons and activities. You can create quizzes and games within Study Place, but you'd have to locate these on your course page.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
One of the best tools I've learned about is Quia. This is an exercise creator site. I HIGHLY recommend you check it out. You can get the 30 day free trial and if I hear from enough of you that you want to use it, we can purchase a group membership. Anyway, you can search a database of exercises created by teachers in various fields including ESL. It is so easy to use. You can create quizzes that are scored and reported to your email, you can create vocab review exercises, grammar review practice, games, quizzes, surveys, etc. Here is a link to a vocab review I made for Michelle's Vocab Development class this week. SO EASY - it took about 5 minutes!
I'm going to add links to other Online Exercise Creator sites I've learned about to the UCAELI Teacher Sites when I get a chance. It's really worth taking a few minutes to try some of these.
I'm going to add links to other Online Exercise Creator sites I've learned about to the UCAELI Teacher Sites when I get a chance. It's really worth taking a few minutes to try some of these.
