Unleashing Student Creativity with Technology
Specific Skills – Reading and vocabulary
Hot Potatoes
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
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to create your own quizzes and puzzles
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Fill in the blank exercise
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Multiple-choice exercise
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Matching exercise
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Short answer exercise
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HTML format
Quia
http://www.quia.com
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Variety of exercises – stored online at their site
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Accessible to anyone
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Easy to use
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Lots of game formats
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Categories and money; one- or two-player game
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Quia – Concentration - Pairs can be related or the same
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Quia - Matching
Crossword puzzles
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Crossword Creator
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Hot Potatoes
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Other freeware/shareware
Action Mazes
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“Create your own adventure” style
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Actions and consequences
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Can help learners explore a concept in a different way
Easier with an authoring tool like Quandary - http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Sample Quandary screens
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authoring
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outline view
Go to Deborah Healey's Attic
@2000, Deborah Healey, deborah.healey@orst.edu.
Teachers may use this page for educational purposes as long as copyright
information is retained.
http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/koc/readingvocabulary.html
Last updated 12 November 2000.