Week 5
Developing class materials: interactive exercise creators
Moderators: Fernanda Rodrigues & Helen Davies
Guest Speaker: Rubena St. Louis
Week 5: February 8 - 14
We are really delighted to be here with you for another week of hands-on activities.
Enjoy creating and sharing lots of online learning materials for learners of all ages.
Objectives
By the end of this week you will have:
- explored different tools to create online surveys and worksheets, and interactive exercises
- explored different features of these tools
- created activities using some of these tools and shared them with the community
- attended the live presentation on the topic of the week
- commented on the presentation of the week
- answered the questions of the week
- read and commented on the Week 5 readings
Activities
Get ready to explore some of the software available for creating online surveys, worksheets and interactive exercises.
We hope to create and share 3 online exercises.
Start by checking out some of the suggested tools below and let the group know what you think (send a message to the Yahoo group).
Task 1
- Take some time to comment on the selected readings.
- Write any thoughts, suggestions or comments here on the forum.
Task 2
- Create an exercise for any of these skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking, or vocabulary. Try a different application each time.
- Explore the software for creating online surveys and worksheets.
- Create an online worksheet for your students.
- Create an online survey.
- Share your creations !! Post the links to your exercises on our Participants'productions page.
Task 3
- Think about a question you would like Rubena to answer during her presentation. Write your question here ........
- Attend Rubena St Louis´session on "Materials Creation" at the Webheads Elluminate Vroom on Thursday, Feb 11 at 18:00 GMT
- Share your reflections on the session on our Blog
Tools to Explore
Interactive exercise creators
Quia (free 30-day trial period)
For young learners
Matching Game Maker Tutorial
Memory Game Maker Tutorial
Spellmaster Tutorial
Take this quiz: How Well Do You Know WebTools?
Other Examples
Get an idea about online worksheets: edHelper.com
To discover how interesting online quizzes/exercises can be:
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/
Check this site
with a lot of interesting interactive exercises, which we can do for free. Very good for listening practice.
Teresa's Web-based Activities ; they're organized by grade, skill and name of exercise creator. Though they are mostly for lower levels, they can be adapted to other levels.
If you haven't got internet in the classroom - try this site out for free printables.
Mainly for younger learners, with lots of worksheets, crosswords and games to prepare and print out and use in the classroom - but the activities can be adapted for older learners too.
This site is another good starting point for tools to create online or printable resources (nice graphics, very appealing for younger learners and easy to use )
Suggested Readings
Click here for a brief overview of this week's reading suggestion. Don't forget to share your comments in the Discussion Forum!
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