Using ICT in Further Education

ProProfs provides free knowledge sharing tools in the form of quizzes, flashcards, games and polls.

Create your own examples or simply explore and use the shared content. You can, also, easily embed any of the content on your blog, website, social network or e-learning system as well as downloading it.

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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.

Blist is an “online database that is visual and intuitive” allowing you to organize different types of information.

With Blist you can make and share simple to-do lists or complicated CRM solutions. You can import/export your data, use templates and copy/modify shared blists.

Blist have just recently added the form and grid widgets, which allow you to easily embed your Blist in your blog or website. This enables you to collect information and share your results with others – even if they do not have a Blist account.

The Blist widgets are great for providing immediate feedback and added interactivity – your site visitors can search and sort the data within the grid widget. Data can be added through the form widget or directly into the grid widget.

Try it out for yourself on this little example:
NB: For some reason sometimes the grid widget does not behave properly – it appears and then disappears leaving a blank white space! The results can be seen at Sample Blist.

Ask500People is a polling service that allows you to “gather input and opinion data in minutes“.

The results may be viewed in chart format or by country (list or Google map). For Ask500People members, who vote, the results are also broken down according to gender, age, income and education.

Great for immediate feedback in Social Studies, Geography, Maths etc.

Try it out. You can vote and view the results here:

View all the result options (gender, age etc) and some interesting comments on the voting page.

Kwik Surveys lets you create, deliver and analyse surveys/questionnaires/polls online.

There are lots of nice features provided by Kwik Surveys including: instant results, customizable Logo’s and themes and email notifications. You can also download your survey results in csv format.

Your questions can include:
* Multiple Choice (choose One/choose any)
* True or False and Yes/No
* Single Text Box
* Multiple Text Boxes (name, address)
* Presentation (No Answer)
* Rating Question (Matrix)
* Ordered List (Ranking)

You can also add multimedia into the question part of your survey. In fact, it is very easy to add/delete or duplicate questions as well as whole surveys.

This is one I will be using with my new students in September. Have I left out any important questions?