Interactive+Activities

Page Ideas Share an online generator that can be used to support an ELA learning activity. Explain how you would use it. For example; If you were doing Literature Circle Extension Projects, students can design a book cover with the ReadWriteThink [|Book Cover Creater].

Below is a link for an online Personal Education Plan Generator According to the site - The Personal Education Plan Generator was an idea that was submitted by one our users, Stefni Stephens. The PEP Generator creates a form that is a cross between a behavior contract and an IEP. It allows teachers to meet the needs of students who require modifications or curricular adaptations. http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/goals/

Another interesting site - worksheet generators (Marianne DeMarco)

[|NY Learns Assessment Builder]- Use this site to search old NYS Tests, choose questions, and build your own assessment. Great NYS Test Prep/ Review! (Julie D)

[|Ed Helper]- This site has several tools for teachers. Requires subscription for most services. (Julie D)

[|Comic Creator]- Students can generate their own comic strips (Julie D)

Hot Potatoes[|] (Gillian Edwin) __Hot Potatoes__ suite is made up of six applications: __JQuiz__, __JCloze__, __JMatch__, __JCross__ __JMix,__ and the __Masher__. It enables teachers to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and cloze exercises for the World Wide Web. Activities created are made available on the web and children everywhere can use it. The best thing - it is free for teachers. __Hot Potatoes__ suite can be used in by teachers of any subject. I’ve used JCloze and JQuiz and was rather impressed with the programs. __JQuiz__ enables teachers to created quizzes. Teachers may choose multiple choice, short answer, hybrid or multiple select questions. Hybrid questions are short answer questions that changes to a multiple choice after a student has //x// number of wrong answers. The number of wrong responses acceptable is set by the teacher. Multiple select questions are questions that require the student to select a number of correct responses from a list. For example, which of the following are verbs: man, smile, go, run, gladly, nice, cry; the student must select all the verbs to get the question correct. __JCloze__ enables teachers to create “fill in the blanks” exercises. There can be an unlimited number of correct responses for each blank as specified by the teacher. Students can be given hints for each blank which is usually a letter. Teachers can also develop clues from each blank. __JCross__ enables teachers to create crossword puzzles of any size. Students can be given a free letter as a hint if they are having problems. __JMix__ enables to create jumbled exercises. Teachers can specify a number of correct responses based on the words and punctuation in the main sentence. Students can use the hint button if needed. __JMatch__ enables teachers to create jumbled exercises. One way an ELA teacher can use this program is to match words with their definitions. The __Masher__ enables teachers to create complete units - for example, if I am creating more than one activity for the same topic. The __Masher__ can also be used to upload web pages that were not created with Hot Potatoes to the [|Hot Potatoes]server.

[|Puzzle Maker] (Gillian Edwin) Teachers can create puzzles for students

[|Certificates] and [|Awards] Maker (Gillian Edwin) Allows teachers to create awards and certificates to reward students.

[|Flip Books Maker] (Gillian Edwin) Teachers and students can create flip books

Webquest generators (Stephanie Sutherland-Hansen) [|Webquest Template] [|Teacher Web]

[|Skillwise] has a cool set of tools for teaching grammar. (Jamahl)

I would like to recommend Quia.com This site requires a paid subscription but I find it quite useful, for those of you who are familiar with quizstar it's the same principle, even though I did find quiz star's layout more pleasing. Quia is an online tool where teachers can create various types of activities. Educators also have the ability to search a huge database of other teacher created activities. The searches can be done by subject and narrowed down by topics, keywords, textbooks. If teachers decide to share their activities, these are rated based on how many times these activities are used. Teachers also have the option to create various class pages, so each class has a separate webpage. Activities which are not being used can be kept in the teacher's files and removed from the classes' webpages. Teachers can create accounts for their students which will enable students to log on with a user name and password to take quizzes. There are many other wonderful possibilities; create a question bank and then use specific questions to create a quiz or activity. But my description is not enough check it out for yourself, I am including a link from one of my classes so you can see what students are seeing. You can also get a free trial. Enjoy ( Julie) http://www.quia.com/ http://www.quia.com/pages/flhsfrench4.html