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.

Free Online IT Certification Training is also provided, by ProProfs, for the following qualifications:
* CompTIA Certification
* Cisco Certification
* Microsoft Certification
* Prosoft CIW Certification
* SAT Test Training

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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Teach-ICT provides many, many useful ICT resources including quizzes, screencast videos, notes, worksheets, posters and an ICT dictionary.

The materials cover several English examining bodies including GCSE, A-level, BTEC and ECDL.

A news section and newsletter are also provided. Teach-ICT is an amazing ICT resouce well worth visiting again and again!!

Chalkface have just announced the winner of the ‘Yacapaca 2008 Author of the Year Award’.

Yacapaca, reviewed in an earlier post, is an excellent online assessment resource where you can create and access quizzes, surveys, tests and eportfolios. Yacapaca provides an easy way to discover, modify and share assessments.

This year, for the first time, Chalkface have honoured the best authors through the Author Awards. Seven nominees were selected from the most popular subjects in Yacapaca. Each being very different, but they have all shown excellence in creating assessment resources.

And the winner is ………. Ralph Holmes of Langley School, Norfolk with runner up Hannah Mohon of Huntcliff School in Saltburn-by-Sea. Congratulations to the winners and all the nominees.

Mobile Study enables you to create multiple choice quizzes that can be downloaded to mobile phones.

With Mobile Study, you can take the quiz online, in facebook or download it to your phone – something that might appeal to our social networking, ‘txting’ generation

In the feedback section, after each question, you can add extra interesting information as well as indicating if the question was answered correctly or not.

 
I’m looking forward to trying out Mobile Study with unsuspecting students next term!!

Update – 27/12/08
You can now embed your quiz in any blog or website!!

The AidtoChildren.com is an interesting site where you can test and improve your vocabulary and at the same time contribute to one of the World Vision Canada causes.

At AidtoChildren.com, you are presented with a word and four different meanings. As well as getting some satisfaction from selecting the correct meaning, you also get to contribute 0.25c to World Vision Canada for each correct answer.

This contribution is made by the site’s sponsors and runs through until 30th September 2008.

I’m not sure just how real the donations are or if they do go to the right place or not, as I am a bit of a cynic, but it is a great concept and the vocabulary testing game is definitely quite useful.  

Dragster 2 is a simple tool for creating “sophisticated drag and drop image labeling and categorisation activities”.

Many “innovative features and rich feedback” are also incorporated in Dragster 2.

This is a great little tool, which does exactly what it says on the box!

After creating your activity, you download the required files (zip file) to your PC.

You can then edit the resulting html code to adjust the look of the flash player to match the colour of your website.

The final version can then be installed on your web server or in your VLE. Have a look at the Earths Structure to see just how well it works.

Found this thanks to Stephen and Scott.

If you haven’t tried it already then you should sign up for Yacapaca immediately!

Yacapaca is an excellent online assessment resource. In Yacapaca you can create and access quizzes, surveys, tests and eportfolios.

Yacapaca allows you to make student sets, containing your list of students, or simply allocate access keys. Once you have created your assignment it becomes available at a given address on the Internet.

For corrected assignments, not only is a markbook provided, which can be downloaded in csv format, but also detailed analysis of how the assignment was completed.

Authoring groups are available and once you have joined a group you can:

• use assessments that are only available to group members
• compile your own quizzes and surveys from the group question bank
• create short-text tests, eportfolios and more
• clip them together into complete courses

There is an astonishing 554 courses available to use, across a big range of subjects, including mainstream and niche areas.

This is a truly amazing collaborative resource and all free!!!