What a good analogy for putting the teach back into tech.

Thanks for the “pin-terest” from Nichole & Betsy….

This is a good source of apps for the iPad, iPhone and other devices that work for educators and parents.

http://www.appolicious.com/

Great quick asset to make web page you are viewing printer friendly.  Add URL to print or save as PDF.

Browser booklet can be added to your browser menu bar or a  “Printer friendly” button can be added to your website to make everything print friendly 🙂

Some times creating a practice quiz for a student helps them prepare for a test.  Here are a few suggestions of online quiz makers that can be viewed and studied online as well as some quiz makers to be printed out.  (Some advanced features are available with the upgraded subscription versions).

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Quizlet—it is a free online “flash card” generator that has cards already made up on many subjects or you can create your own sets.  Students can access them in many different ways for studying purposes.—flash mode, learn mode, scatter mode, speller, test, space racer.

The following are instructions for using PowerPoint to create a simple quiz that can be viewed online, or used as a powerpoint file:

Start PowerPoint and create a new Blank presentation. Insert a new slide with the Title Only layout.

Type in your question in the Title placeholder (add graphic to the slide using the Insert | Picture | From File… option if you want one included in the question).

Now add three or more text-boxes beneath the picture and type in the answers. Only one of the answers needs to be correct. Format the text boxes with fills if required.

Create two more slides–one for the correct answer and one for the incorrect answers. I mention the correct answer on the “correct” slide and selection for “Go ahead” is added there too.  I suggest for the “incorrect” slide for users to go back to the question slide again and make another choice once they get to the “incorrect” slide. (see screenshot)

Now go back to the question slide and select the text box that contains the correct answer – be careful to select the text box and not the text itself. Use Insert tab –> Action Settings option.

In the “Mouse Click” tab of the Action Settings dialog box, activate the drop down box in the “Hyperlink to” area and choose the “Slide…” option.

In the resultant dialog box, choose to hyperlink to the “correct” answer slide.

In the same way, hyperlink the text boxes with the wrong answers to the “incorrect” answer slide. Create four similar sets of three slides each with the four remaining questions. On all the “incorrect” answer slides, provide a link back to the actual question slide so that users can attempt to answer the question again. On all the “correct” answer slides, provide a link to the next question.

Sample Quiz Format for PowerPoint

ikiMap–online website that following free registering, you can create new maps very easily and quickly. You could use the online editor tools to draw your map, or upload your files (KML, GPX, SPH …) to ikiMap.  This website allows you to create you own place marks and notated maps for sharing or viewing online.  Elements can be added to your map–routes, points of interest or areas.  Edit your map and define the map elements and how you want to see them.  Insert descriptions, tabs, change the background of the map, add texts and images, colors, transparency and lots more.

Using Forms in Google Documents allows you to create a quiz of questions of all types–true/false, multiple choice and short answer.  Along with this feature of administering and collecting the answers for a test or quiz, you can also use the Flubaroo script to grade multiple choice and or true/false questions.

Flubaroo is a free script that you can use grade the quizzes that you administer through Google Docs. Flubaroo provides great step-by-step directions for using the script. I’ll give an quick overview of how it works. First, create your multiple choice quiz using Forms in Google Docs (get directions here). Then take the quiz yourself and have students take the quiz (you can embed it in a webpage or direct students to the URL for your form). Now instead of trying to grade the spreadsheet cells you will insert the Flubaroo script by selecting it from the “insert” menu in your spreadsheet. Once the Flubaroo script is inserted just select it and it will grade the quiz for you.

Watch the video below for a demonstration of Flubaroo.

This is a comprehensive site providing thousands of downloadable Video lectures, Live Online Tests,etc in the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine, Management and Accounting, Dentistry, Nursing, Psychology, History, Language Training, Literature, Law, Economics, Philosophy,Astronomy, Political Science etc FREE to its visitors… This site provides free video and audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world. Science Animations provide students with fun and innovative ways of learning. Free live timed online tests with instant feedback and explanations will help you refine your test taking skills. Most of the materials offered are licensed by the respective institutes under a Creative Commons License.

QR codes need to be read by camera phones or webcam and that can be a problem.  Thanks to a entry by one of my most favorite techies, Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers, there is a solution to that problem.

QRreader (beta) is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to use your browser to decode QR codes. With QRreader installed when you come to a QR code on the web you can simply right-click on it to decode it. If the QR code is for a webpage, the page will open in a new tab. If the QR code is for text, it will open in a text dialogue box.

Note:  Just another reason to use Google Chrome as a browser. 🙂

I came across several posts by Tammy Worcester on her blog “Tip of the Week” and I will include links below:

First:  Explanation and use of QR Codes

Then, how to add audio to your QR Code: