Making Quizzes For I-Pod

With the increment inwards involvement inwards mobile learning as well as the ubiquitous nature of the i-pod alongside our younger (and increasingly older) students this slice of software looks similar a actually useful tool nosotros tin give the sack purpose to extend learning beyond the classroom.

The software I’m referring to is I-Quiz Maker. You tin give the sack download I-Quiz Maker for complimentary at:
http://www.iquizmaker.com/

Once you’ve installed it yous tin give the sack brand quizzes using either True / False query types or Multiple Choice questions. The quizzes a real unproblematic to brand as well as yous tin give the sack brand every bit many questions every bit yous similar as well as every bit many quizzes, every bit yous like.

• This demo tutorial shows yous how to create the quiz

This looks similar a actually useful tool to:

• help revise as well as educate your students vocabulary. You tin give the sack write a vocabulary quiz as well as up- appointment it each calendar week with novel words that your students convey learned
• get the students to create quizzes for each other as well as percentage them
• set upward revision exercises

Although in that place is a fleck of move involved inwards creating the quizzes, 1 time yous made them you’ll move able to proceed them as well as purpose them 1 time to a greater extent than with other students.

Once yous convey finished creating your quiz yous tin give the sack as well as hence export it to your desktop as well as it tin give the sack move uploaded to the I-pod through I-Tunes. The exclusively grab hither is that yous as well as / or your students volition bespeak to purchase the I-Quiz game for your I-pod. It is actually inexpensive though (less than 1 United States of America dollar / 79 p inwards the UK) as well as it does come upward with some ready-made quizzes.

What I similar most it

• You tin give the sack laid the quizzes hence that students acquire a maximum discover of questions inwards each game as well as hence that they release later a specific discover of incorrect answers. This should croak far to a greater extent than competitive.
• The game volition randomise the questions hence yous could input fifty questions as well as they would acquire 10 or xx random questions each game.
• It’s real tardily to purpose as well as is but unproblematic betoken as well as click
• You tin give the sack update quizzes hence that they grow every bit your students’ cognition grows
• There's a version for PC as well as for MAC!
  

What I’m non hence certain about

• Students volition bespeak an i-pod, they can’t but run the quiz on their estimator or i-Tunes
• The game is exclusively compatible with Fifth generation i-pods (This may croak an wages every bit to a greater extent than people merchandise upward to to a greater extent than modern versions as well as the older ones croak available to a greater extent than cheaply minute hand) which isn’t much assist for students with older i-pods.
• I couldn’t acquire the user manual to download hence in that place wasn’t much documentation to assist me larn how to purpose the software
• I recollect in that place may convey been 1 to a greater extent than query type, but I couldn’t acquire the push clitoris for it to move ??
• Students volition convey to purchase the I-Quiz game (though every bit I said it’s quite cheap) as well as that agency setting upward an i-tunes account.

On the whole though, despite the higher upward drawbacks, if yous convey a classroom amount of students who comport i-pods most as well as hence this could move but the matter for you.

Let me know how it goes

Best

Nik

Making Quizzes For I-Pod

With the increment inwards involvement inwards mobile learning as well as the ubiquitous nature of the i-pod alongside our younger (and increasingly older) students this slice of software looks similar a actually useful tool nosotros tin give the sack purpose to extend learning beyond the classroom.

The software I’m referring to is I-Quiz Maker. You tin give the sack download I-Quiz Maker for complimentary at:
http://www.iquizmaker.com/

Once you’ve installed it yous tin give the sack brand quizzes using either True / False query types or Multiple Choice questions. The quizzes a real unproblematic to brand as well as yous tin give the sack brand every bit many questions every bit yous similar as well as every bit many quizzes, every bit yous like.

• This demo tutorial shows yous how to create the quiz

This looks similar a actually useful tool to:

• help revise as well as educate your students vocabulary. You tin give the sack write a vocabulary quiz as well as up- appointment it each calendar week with novel words that your students convey learned
• get the students to create quizzes for each other as well as percentage them
• set upward revision exercises

Although in that place is a fleck of move involved inwards creating the quizzes, 1 time yous made them you’ll move able to proceed them as well as purpose them 1 time to a greater extent than with other students.

Once yous convey finished creating your quiz yous tin give the sack as well as hence export it to your desktop as well as it tin give the sack move uploaded to the I-pod through I-Tunes. The exclusively grab hither is that yous as well as / or your students volition bespeak to purchase the I-Quiz game for your I-pod. It is actually inexpensive though (less than 1 United States of America dollar / 79 p inwards the UK) as well as it does come upward with some ready-made quizzes.

What I similar most it

• You tin give the sack laid the quizzes hence that students acquire a maximum discover of questions inwards each game as well as hence that they release later a specific discover of incorrect answers. This should croak far to a greater extent than competitive.
• The game volition randomise the questions hence yous could input fifty questions as well as they would acquire 10 or xx random questions each game.
• It’s real tardily to purpose as well as is but unproblematic betoken as well as click
• You tin give the sack update quizzes hence that they grow every bit your students’ cognition grows
• There's a version for PC as well as for MAC!
  

What I’m non hence certain about

• Students volition bespeak an i-pod, they can’t but run the quiz on their estimator or i-Tunes
• The game is exclusively compatible with Fifth generation i-pods (This may croak an wages every bit to a greater extent than people merchandise upward to to a greater extent than modern versions as well as the older ones croak available to a greater extent than cheaply minute hand) which isn’t much assist for students with older i-pods.
• I couldn’t acquire the user manual to download hence in that place wasn’t much documentation to assist me larn how to purpose the software
• I recollect in that place may convey been 1 to a greater extent than query type, but I couldn’t acquire the push clitoris for it to move ??
• Students volition convey to purchase the I-Quiz game (though every bit I said it’s quite cheap) as well as that agency setting upward an i-tunes account.

On the whole though, despite the higher upward drawbacks, if yous convey a classroom amount of students who comport i-pods most as well as hence this could move but the matter for you.

Let me know how it goes

Best

Nik

Multimedia Wordsearch

This is a genuinely prissy tool that I convey precisely discovered. It's called PhotoSoup together with it generates wordsearch activities based on whatever theme inwards precisely seconds.

It's real unproblematic together with plant on images from flickr. You merely type inwards your theme together with the site automatically generates a give-and-take grid together with icon clues. You hence convey ninety seconds to detect all the words. You tin laissez passer on notice acquire hints together with fifty-fifty acquire it to exhibit y'all the answers.

Watch a brusk video to run into how it's done. (499k swf)

How to run it amongst students

• This is corking for vocabulary revision, peculiarly amongst higher levels. Students could fifty-fifty larn some novel vocabulary from it.
• It would await corking on an interactive whiteboard (IWB) or y'all could laissez passer on students a collection of vocabulary themes together with acquire them to piece of occupation on their own.
• Good to run every bit a filler for students who complete early
  

What I similar nigh it

• It's free
• Each wordsearch it generates is pretty much unique
  
• The timing adds an chemical component of motivation together with contest to it
• It's precisely hence simple
• I tried a random alternative of real unsuitable words that students powerfulness seat inwards together with it seems that those words are censored, hence y'all don't convey to worry hence much nigh badly behaved students looking at unsuitable images
• It's genuinely quite tricky

What I'm non hence certain about

• Because it's based on the tags that images are given the words tin laissez passer on notice sometimes seem a flake tangential
• It's genuinely quite tricky
• You can't relieve your wordsearches (Actually I've precisely discovered that y'all can. If y'all await at the peak of the page y'all tin laissez passer on notice click 'embed puzzle' together with this volition generate a code that volition enable y'all to embed the wordsearch into a webpage or blog)
  

This is the sort of site that powerfulness convey been custom made for linguistic communication teaching.
Hope y'all detect it useful together with your students savor it.

Best

Nik

Animating Vocabulary

I've only been looking at a useful websites called my previous tutorial to uncovering out how to embed images as well as video into webpages on your desktop)

How to operate this alongside students
Collect upward gifs related to whatever vocabulary expanse yous desire to learn or revise. Embed them inwards an html page on your desk pinnacle as well as starting fourth dimension a collection. Each fourth dimension yous add together novel ones mail the html page to your students. (They volition demand to accept a alive connection on their calculator to last able to persuasion the gifs)
Ask them to brand notes of whatever words they relate to the images they see.

What I liked most it

• It's quick as well as tardily as well as at that topographic point are lots of images available
• There are some actually prissy images
• It's smashing that yous tin flame embed the gifs into your materials

What I wasn't as well as thus certain about

• There are also some images which may last unsuitable for your students, as well as thus this is a resources for teachers to practise materials rather than 1 to allow students unloose on
• I'm non certain what the copyright organization is alongside the images they are using
• Be careful most the speed that yous onrush your gifs, faster ones tin flame last unsafe if anyone inwards your degree is epileptic

On the whole Gifup isn't going to revolutionise your teaching, but it is a useful lilliputian tool that yous tin flame operate to heighten thee instruction process. Please exit a comment if yous accept whatever other suggestions for how to operate this.

Hope yous bask it.

Best
Nik

Picture Phrases

Phrasr is an interesting novel website that allows users to input sentences, phrases or fifty-fifty entire paragraphs as well as hence plough them into illustrated slide shows using Flickr images. All y'all stimulate got to arrive at is type inward your phrase as well as click, y'all hence acquire an icon for each word. If y'all don't similar the icon y'all acquire hence y'all tin modify them as well as when y'all are create y'all simply hand your locomote a cite as well as championship a click to publish. What y'all hence acquire is similar a slide demo of images amongst words.
Here's an event of what it produces. This 1 is based on the sometime expression;

• "You tin accept a Equus caballus to H2O but y'all can’t arrive drink"

Here's approximately other based on the outset poesy of a Shakespeare sonnet (130)

• Sonnet 130

Once y'all stimulate got created your painting phrase y'all tin either ship it to a friend past times electronic mail or acquire to the archive as well as discovery it to re-create the URL.

If y'all desire to run into simply how quick as well as slow it is to create these then

• watch this brusk Flash tutorial moving painting (800k)
  

How to purpose this amongst students
This is going to revolutionise learning, but I tin intend of a few overnice tasks y'all could purpose this for.

• Get students to illustrate a brusk poesy form or haiku.
• Create approximately idiom movies to aid students recollect them.
• Use the site to brand revising / presenting grammatical structures structures a fighting to a greater extent than interesting.
• Get students to write a brusk storey as well as create an icon version of it.
• Discuss why for certain images appear to a greater extent than or less appropriate to illustrate diverse texts.

What I similar well-nigh it

• This is a actually unproblematic complimentary site that y'all tin purpose to speedily create materials
• Nice multifariousness of images

What I wasn't hence smashing on

• It would live on overnice to stimulate got an embed code for these hence that y'all could add together your finished sentences to your blog, rather than a hyper link dorsum to the site
• Be careful approximately images are non appropriate for younger learners
• Some people tend to abuse sites similar these, hence live on careful of inappropriate sentences or immature students who tend to play around.

Hope y'all relish this unproblematic tool as well as discovery approximately expert uses for it. Drop me a business if y'all stimulate got whatever others to suggest

Best

Nik

Using Discussion Clouds Inwards Efl Esl

I've only discovered Prompting reading speeds

Animating vocabulary

Interactive multiple selection activities

Picture phrases

Activities for students:

• Learn Some Cliches
• Using Word Clouds to Remember Words
• Improve Your Vocabulary too Make Friends

Best

Nik Peachey