Using ICT in Further Education

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The amount of ads displayed can be a bit of a distraction but, if you can get past this, there is lots of useful content included! This is a little spreadsheet quiz based on using Excel.

Quia Web provides a shared activities area where you can browse through thousands of learning activities grouped into different subject areas (300 categories provided to date).

Sixteen different types of online activities are available including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. The Quia Web activities are designed with different learning styles in mind to suit the needs of all students.

Check it out now, you are bound to find something that can be used!!

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Zaid has recently composed another great list of resources with his 75 free EduGames.

Zaid’s post is about “exploring and discovering free educational games that could be useful to embed within or across courses (and programs) to spark more engagement, challenge, mystery, exploration, collaboration, problem-solving, decision making, imagination, fun and thinking into the learning process“.

If you haven’t done so then I would advise you to check it out now!!!

I haven’t used all of them yet but I really like the ClassTools.net site. This one alone will keep you busy for ages. Also, the jQuizShow is a must if you like ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’.

Zaid also promises to keep adding new Edugames to his Games Galore del.icio.us site. Definitely one to bookmark

ReviseICT.co.uk is a great place to visit for ICT flash based games. Although aimed at second level students, they are also useful for beginners learning ICT.

ReviseICT.co.uk includes such games as ‘penalty shootout’, ‘walk the plank’, ‘beat the bomb’, ‘hoop shoot’ and ‘fling the teacher’!

In the ‘penalty shootout’, when you answer the question correctly, you get a chance to beat the goalkeeper. This provides great motivation to get the question right.

Also, you don’t automatically beat the keeper – so this part is a bit of a challenge in itself

Great for competitive types and sports enthusiasts. Some of the games also allow for two player participation.

Each of the revision topics in ReviseICT.co.uk has a collection of “notes, podcasts, mind-maps, games, quizzes and suggested links“. As well as this, separate ICT related tutorials are also provided.

All of the flash games are produced using ContentGenerator, which even provides some of the games for free so that you can create your very own!

A great find and just in time for exam revision coming up!! Thanks David.