I documented the creation of my RILS and how it works but the event I created it for isn't until this coming Saturday night. This is an experiment to see how this scenario might work with my MBA students in April as a fun way to engage them.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
PE_5 iPad file transfer
Since I feel like I have Buzz PS3 RILS together, I want to post about my experience last night on an airplane while needing to work on my literature review.
I had my laptop, my iPad and I also have a Verizon MiFi which some of you may know what it is. It's a tiny credit card sized wireless router that can share up to 5 devices. I keep it in my pocket when I travel. Sometimes finding a hot spot is difficult or buying one in a hotel is very expensive. Also, I have more than one device that needs wireless, laptop, my iPad and sometimes my phone. A few years ago, I used to travel with a wireless router that I would hook up to the hotel room modem. I would buy 1 connection at the hotel share it with my other devices from my portable wireless router. But now, so many hotels have wireless only and don't have ethernet ports so I can't use my old toy. The MiFi is much better, it's both a wireless access to the internet and a wireless router. Unbelievable. My iPad does have 3G but when it came time to activate it and pay $59 a month to ATT for more shoddy service, I thought, there's got to be a better solution. I did some research and chose the MiFi. It's also $59 a month BUT, like I said, it can share up to 5 devices and if I am in a cab or a place where there's no wireless, this thing is a lifesaver. It's fast and a lot better than paying $12.95 a day at a hotel.
So last night, I'm on the plane and I had my laptop and my iPad and I had a 3 1/2 hour flight to Houston and I knew that my laptop battery was not going to last but maybe 2 hours. So, before the flight took off I bought an iPad app called Goodreader. After the plane took off, I could use my MiFi (not to get internet because we're in mid-air) BUT I could use the MiFi to create a local network for my devices. The Goodreader app was $2.99 and is so great and simple. You open the Goodreader App on the iPad and then open a new page on a browser on my laptop and use Bonjour (which see the iPad on the local network) and that takes you to http://GFS-iPad.local.8080 and connects directly to the iPad. That browser page gives you a button to upload anything. You can see in this screenshot how my laptop is using Goodreader to see what files I have sent to my iPad.
So, I worked on my laptop until it was almost out of juice and then I used Goodreader, uploaded the PDF's that I was using for references and I also uploaded my Literature review Word document to the iPad.
The Word document, I opened in Pages on my iPad and kept on writing. When I got home about 10PM, I plugged in my laptop and used Goodreader to send the edited Literature review back to my laptop, so I could continue writing on my laptop.
It was an interesting combination of devices and apps to make the most of my writing time and battery power last night. I thought this made for an interesting post of practical experience.
I had my laptop, my iPad and I also have a Verizon MiFi which some of you may know what it is. It's a tiny credit card sized wireless router that can share up to 5 devices. I keep it in my pocket when I travel. Sometimes finding a hot spot is difficult or buying one in a hotel is very expensive. Also, I have more than one device that needs wireless, laptop, my iPad and sometimes my phone. A few years ago, I used to travel with a wireless router that I would hook up to the hotel room modem. I would buy 1 connection at the hotel share it with my other devices from my portable wireless router. But now, so many hotels have wireless only and don't have ethernet ports so I can't use my old toy. The MiFi is much better, it's both a wireless access to the internet and a wireless router. Unbelievable. My iPad does have 3G but when it came time to activate it and pay $59 a month to ATT for more shoddy service, I thought, there's got to be a better solution. I did some research and chose the MiFi. It's also $59 a month BUT, like I said, it can share up to 5 devices and if I am in a cab or a place where there's no wireless, this thing is a lifesaver. It's fast and a lot better than paying $12.95 a day at a hotel.
So last night, I'm on the plane and I had my laptop and my iPad and I had a 3 1/2 hour flight to Houston and I knew that my laptop battery was not going to last but maybe 2 hours. So, before the flight took off I bought an iPad app called Goodreader. After the plane took off, I could use my MiFi (not to get internet because we're in mid-air) BUT I could use the MiFi to create a local network for my devices. The Goodreader app was $2.99 and is so great and simple. You open the Goodreader App on the iPad and then open a new page on a browser on my laptop and use Bonjour (which see the iPad on the local network) and that takes you to http://GFS-iPad.local.8080 and connects directly to the iPad. That browser page gives you a button to upload anything. You can see in this screenshot how my laptop is using Goodreader to see what files I have sent to my iPad.
So, I worked on my laptop until it was almost out of juice and then I used Goodreader, uploaded the PDF's that I was using for references and I also uploaded my Literature review Word document to the iPad.
The Word document, I opened in Pages on my iPad and kept on writing. When I got home about 10PM, I plugged in my laptop and used Goodreader to send the edited Literature review back to my laptop, so I could continue writing on my laptop.
It was an interesting combination of devices and apps to make the most of my writing time and battery power last night. I thought this made for an interesting post of practical experience.
PE_4 Buzz
Well, I am using the Playstation quiz game Buzz to create a game show for a party, which is a test to try on my university students in April. It's my best friend's mom's 70th birthday and I asked her a bunch of personal quetions to quiz her family to see who knows her best. The questions are kind of funny... After I put the quiz together online, I went to test it from the PS3. I ran into a snag because each quiz can only have 8 question, but, you can string the quizzes together into a Playlist. So, I create a playlist with 24 questions at MyBuzzQuiz.com.
The you access the games from the Playstation. You can play quizzes from the website, but the Playstation lets you choose characters, play against up to 8 people and use the Buzz controller. You have a funny game show host and it's much, much more fun and competitive from the PS3.
The thing is, there are two Buzz PS3 games, one called Buzz Quiz TV (which is the old one from 2009) and Buzz Quiz World which is the new one and about a year old now. Both are great, The new one has more characters and different rounds of play and a few more bells and whistles, but my favorite one is the old one because they have more amusing rounds of 8 questions.
For example, whoever answers a question correct in one round gets to throw a pie at another player. Or my favorite is the round in which you are passed an explosive bomb and the only way you can get rid of it and pass it to the next player is to answer a question correctly. If you hang too long on a question, you blow up. It's really hilarious with a bunch of people. So, I chose to do the party with the first Buzz game. When the game starts, it asks you what game you want to play, you can play against other people online or with friends using questions and topics generated within the game or you can choose My Buzz where you create your own questions - this is what I did. So, it logs into your Playstation network and accesses all of your quizzes. You can choose one Quiz at a time or a Playlist with multiple quizzes. I chose the Playlist I created online which consisted of 3 quizzes of 8 questions - I assumed this would give me 3 different rounds of play, hopefully one with the pie and one with the bomb... But, no. Bummer!! There's a bug and the game will allow you to choose a playlist but it only plays the first 8 questions. I messed with it for a while and then looked online and found a forum where lots of people since 2009 have been reporting this problem. It has not been fixed. I was really bummed.
So, I tried accessing the game from the latest Buzz Quiz World and it does work from there - but, it uses one round of play and nothing as fun as the pie or the bomb. Major bummer. I sure wish there was a fix so i could use the other game, but I'm stuck.
The you access the games from the Playstation. You can play quizzes from the website, but the Playstation lets you choose characters, play against up to 8 people and use the Buzz controller. You have a funny game show host and it's much, much more fun and competitive from the PS3.
The thing is, there are two Buzz PS3 games, one called Buzz Quiz TV (which is the old one from 2009) and Buzz Quiz World which is the new one and about a year old now. Both are great, The new one has more characters and different rounds of play and a few more bells and whistles, but my favorite one is the old one because they have more amusing rounds of 8 questions.
For example, whoever answers a question correct in one round gets to throw a pie at another player. Or my favorite is the round in which you are passed an explosive bomb and the only way you can get rid of it and pass it to the next player is to answer a question correctly. If you hang too long on a question, you blow up. It's really hilarious with a bunch of people. So, I chose to do the party with the first Buzz game. When the game starts, it asks you what game you want to play, you can play against other people online or with friends using questions and topics generated within the game or you can choose My Buzz where you create your own questions - this is what I did. So, it logs into your Playstation network and accesses all of your quizzes. You can choose one Quiz at a time or a Playlist with multiple quizzes. I chose the Playlist I created online which consisted of 3 quizzes of 8 questions - I assumed this would give me 3 different rounds of play, hopefully one with the pie and one with the bomb... But, no. Bummer!! There's a bug and the game will allow you to choose a playlist but it only plays the first 8 questions. I messed with it for a while and then looked online and found a forum where lots of people since 2009 have been reporting this problem. It has not been fixed. I was really bummed.
So, I tried accessing the game from the latest Buzz Quiz World and it does work from there - but, it uses one round of play and nothing as fun as the pie or the bomb. Major bummer. I sure wish there was a fix so i could use the other game, but I'm stuck.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
PE3 - eBooks
Well, it's been a long day. At first I copied and pasted text from my word document and kept trying to match the layout that my publisher did in my book. Since I am so new to InDesign, this was a bit over my head. So, I did some research and found out that there is a conversion tool that converts PDF's into InDesign files. So, I bought that. It adds the functionality from the InDesign Open function and add an Open PDF.
The PDF from my book's introduction was supposed to look like something like this:
But, it was a pertty big mess when I opened the PDF into InDesign. The good news is that it kept the color, the header sizes, the images are all separate, so it was worth getting this conversion tool, but I have quite the mess to clean up.
I moved things around and I am slowly learning how funky publishing ePubs are and how finicky they can be about images and text flow etc. ePubs seem to be quite finicky. I've been reading Liz Castro's ePub on ePubs on my iPad.
Unfortunately, most of the resources teaching how to do eBooks assumes that you know InDesign better than I do, which is making it harder. So, tomorrow, I am going to sit down with some Lynda videos and the class I purchased at CreativeLive.com and start learning InDesign better.
I did manage to export my Introduction to an ePub which was kind of exciting. You can view ePubs on the mac using Adobe Digital Editions which is free. This was great because I was afraid I would have to keep adding to my iTunes library and syncing to an iPad every time I wanted to see a new change. Adobe Digital Editions simulates what the book would look like on an iPad, and needless to say, my first one ain't pretty - Oh well, it's a start:
The PDF from my book's introduction was supposed to look like something like this:
But, it was a pertty big mess when I opened the PDF into InDesign. The good news is that it kept the color, the header sizes, the images are all separate, so it was worth getting this conversion tool, but I have quite the mess to clean up.
I moved things around and I am slowly learning how funky publishing ePubs are and how finicky they can be about images and text flow etc. ePubs seem to be quite finicky. I've been reading Liz Castro's ePub on ePubs on my iPad.
Unfortunately, most of the resources teaching how to do eBooks assumes that you know InDesign better than I do, which is making it harder. So, tomorrow, I am going to sit down with some Lynda videos and the class I purchased at CreativeLive.com and start learning InDesign better.
I did manage to export my Introduction to an ePub which was kind of exciting. You can view ePubs on the mac using Adobe Digital Editions which is free. This was great because I was afraid I would have to keep adding to my iTunes library and syncing to an iPad every time I wanted to see a new change. Adobe Digital Editions simulates what the book would look like on an iPad, and needless to say, my first one ain't pretty - Oh well, it's a start:
BP7 - Web 2.0 Glyde.com
Here is my 60 second video promoting the Web 2.0 toll Glyde.com.I used Camtasia to do the screen capture and iMovie's new trailer feature.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
BP6 - Carnesha's Blog
I linked to Carnesha's blog and made a comment on her iMovie Practical experience posting.
Check it out!
Check it out!
BP5 - Jude's Blog
I followed Jude's blog and made a comment on her one minute video which features a Web 2.0 tool called Dabbleboard.
Check it out!!
Check it out!!
BP4 - Web 2.0 Gylde
My web 2.0 tool is a site I use a lot. This last year I did some spring cleaning and I had more video games than I knew what to do with. Some from my old Game Cube, some from my old Playstation 1 and 2 and my old Xbox and I mostly just play PS3 now. So, I thought about selling them but the thought of doing hundreds of Ebay listings for Craigslist listings was too much to deal with.
So, I found Glyde.
It is the most simple site. The sell used games, DVD's, CD's and Books. Somehow their database knows all the info when you enter the title.
For example, if I wanted to sell my PS3 game Heavenly Sword. Here's what I'd do. I'd click on the Sell link at the top of the page and it gives me a search field here:
When I choose the title - it also knows what is fair price. I can choose their price or enter my own.
When it sells, I receive an Email that says, "Congratulations on Selling Heavenly Sword" and then a day or two later, I receive a padded stamped envelope addressed to the person who bought my game. I put the game in the envelope, mail it, and I'm done.
Then a few days after that, I receive another email letting me know that money has been deposit in my account minus the 10% of my sale price and $1.25 for the mailing costs.
For me, it's a lot better deal than me going to Game Stop, where I wouldn't receive as much for the game and I'd also have to schlepp my mass of games.
In the last year, I've sold about 50 games and I have more to sell. Here is my account page:
I can withdraw the money anytime free to my bank account or they can send a check with a $2 fee.
I'ma big glyde fan!!!
So, I found Glyde.
It is the most simple site. The sell used games, DVD's, CD's and Books. Somehow their database knows all the info when you enter the title.
For example, if I wanted to sell my PS3 game Heavenly Sword. Here's what I'd do. I'd click on the Sell link at the top of the page and it gives me a search field here:
When I choose the title - it also knows what is fair price. I can choose their price or enter my own.
When it sells, I receive an Email that says, "Congratulations on Selling Heavenly Sword" and then a day or two later, I receive a padded stamped envelope addressed to the person who bought my game. I put the game in the envelope, mail it, and I'm done.
Then a few days after that, I receive another email letting me know that money has been deposit in my account minus the 10% of my sale price and $1.25 for the mailing costs.
For me, it's a lot better deal than me going to Game Stop, where I wouldn't receive as much for the game and I'd also have to schlepp my mass of games.
In the last year, I've sold about 50 games and I have more to sell. Here is my account page:
I can withdraw the money anytime free to my bank account or they can send a check with a $2 fee.
I'ma big glyde fan!!!
PE2 - eBooks
So, yesterday I spent a bit of time researching eBooks and I did find out that Apple Pages can export eBooks. The only bummer is that, my publisher uses InDesign and going from Pages to InDesign, apparently, is not easy and doesn't retain the formatting very well. So I plan on spending a bit of the day learning more about InDesign.I emailed the eBook guru, James Fritz and he very kindly emailed me back. I asked him this:
"I am converting a book I did for Peachpit teaching Pro Tools into an ePub for the iPad. I want to add video tutorials and i was looking at your Lynda content, but it was using SWF files - since the iPad doesn't support flash, is there any content you have teaching about putting video into an ePub for iPad?"and he wrote back this:
"First of all, you are correct that you can't use Flash video with any ePub or any iOS devices. Now, are you going to be converting your book to ePub to be sold only on the iBooks store, or are you also planning on selling it to the Kindle, Google Books, Barnes and Nobel and other too?
The reason that I ask is that creating an ePub document is like creating a website. Each device and/or store may render your book differently. Since ePub is very new, everything is currently changing very quickly. Video support can be quite sketchy at this time depending on the device. Currently, I think that the iOS devices (iPad, iTouch, iPhone) are the only readers that support video, but I could be wrong.
Here is a link to more information about using video with ePub. Liz Castro's website (the link below is from her site) is a great resource for ePub and the iPad.http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2010/05/html5-video-works-on-ibooks-on-ipad.htmlIf you need more help, people let me know.
"I wrote back this
:"I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. I'm thinking of doing this update specifically for the iPad/IBook. Do you know if the Samsung Galaxy or any other of the new tablets will have an iBooks app or something that will also read media-rich ePubs? Just curious... It's prob too soon to know.I wonder if the Kindle app will start supporting video since it's running on tablets and not just the Kindle anymore...."
and he said:
"I highly doubt that Apple will ever allow their iBook store to be on any 3rd party device. They may eventually release it for the mac desktop, but I would hot hold my breath on an android tablet.I think that because the barnes and noble nook and google reader (which uses a web browser) use ePub, they would be the next likely candidates to support video. The Galaxy and other tablets will have a bunch of ePub readers, so that shouldn't be an issue. What you need to pay careful attention to is DRM.
If you buy a book from the iBookstore. It will only work there. If you sell a book without DRM it can be read on any device that supports ePub.The kindle is another story. Because the Kindle uses their own proprietary .mobi format you are stuck with what they offer. There is a beta plug-in for InDesign that will let you export to .mobi directly. But at this time, there is not video support. I am sure in time, that will change, but it will probably take longer.
By the way, if you are not aware already I would recommend that you download and install Adobe Digital Editions (free) to preview and test ePubs exported form InDesign. Obviously, you will still want to test your documents by loading it onto the iPad, but it is still another way to test."
Then I went to the site he suggested and ran across the eBook guru he suggested, Liz Castro. She just published a book that is not available on Amazon for another few weeks, BUT, the ePub version was available at Kagi, so I just bought that.
Now, I am going to put that ePub book into iBooks on my iPad.I have never put a book file on my iPad before, but it's really darn easy and exactly the same as adding a song or video to iTunes. You just drag and ePub or PDF to your iTunes library and sync. So - that's what I'm doing now. Then I plan on watching a few InDesign movies, then I am going to try and put the introduction of my book into InDesign, export as an ePub, view it in Adobe Digital Editions, edit it with this small app called Springy, and then try and view it on my iPad.Combine that with my Web 2.0 video and my Research project, it's going to be a long weekend. Thank god it's raining and cold, otherwise, I might be complaining....
"I am converting a book I did for Peachpit teaching Pro Tools into an ePub for the iPad. I want to add video tutorials and i was looking at your Lynda content, but it was using SWF files - since the iPad doesn't support flash, is there any content you have teaching about putting video into an ePub for iPad?"and he wrote back this:
"First of all, you are correct that you can't use Flash video with any ePub or any iOS devices. Now, are you going to be converting your book to ePub to be sold only on the iBooks store, or are you also planning on selling it to the Kindle, Google Books, Barnes and Nobel and other too?
The reason that I ask is that creating an ePub document is like creating a website. Each device and/or store may render your book differently. Since ePub is very new, everything is currently changing very quickly. Video support can be quite sketchy at this time depending on the device. Currently, I think that the iOS devices (iPad, iTouch, iPhone) are the only readers that support video, but I could be wrong.
Here is a link to more information about using video with ePub. Liz Castro's website (the link below is from her site) is a great resource for ePub and the iPad.http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2010/05/html5-video-works-on-ibooks-on-ipad.htmlIf you need more help, people let me know.
"I wrote back this
:"I really appreciate you taking the time to answer. I'm thinking of doing this update specifically for the iPad/IBook. Do you know if the Samsung Galaxy or any other of the new tablets will have an iBooks app or something that will also read media-rich ePubs? Just curious... It's prob too soon to know.I wonder if the Kindle app will start supporting video since it's running on tablets and not just the Kindle anymore...."
and he said:
"I highly doubt that Apple will ever allow their iBook store to be on any 3rd party device. They may eventually release it for the mac desktop, but I would hot hold my breath on an android tablet.I think that because the barnes and noble nook and google reader (which uses a web browser) use ePub, they would be the next likely candidates to support video. The Galaxy and other tablets will have a bunch of ePub readers, so that shouldn't be an issue. What you need to pay careful attention to is DRM.
If you buy a book from the iBookstore. It will only work there. If you sell a book without DRM it can be read on any device that supports ePub.The kindle is another story. Because the Kindle uses their own proprietary .mobi format you are stuck with what they offer. There is a beta plug-in for InDesign that will let you export to .mobi directly. But at this time, there is not video support. I am sure in time, that will change, but it will probably take longer.
By the way, if you are not aware already I would recommend that you download and install Adobe Digital Editions (free) to preview and test ePubs exported form InDesign. Obviously, you will still want to test your documents by loading it onto the iPad, but it is still another way to test."
Then I went to the site he suggested and ran across the eBook guru he suggested, Liz Castro. She just published a book that is not available on Amazon for another few weeks, BUT, the ePub version was available at Kagi, so I just bought that.
Now, I am going to put that ePub book into iBooks on my iPad.I have never put a book file on my iPad before, but it's really darn easy and exactly the same as adding a song or video to iTunes. You just drag and ePub or PDF to your iTunes library and sync. So - that's what I'm doing now. Then I plan on watching a few InDesign movies, then I am going to try and put the introduction of my book into InDesign, export as an ePub, view it in Adobe Digital Editions, edit it with this small app called Springy, and then try and view it on my iPad.Combine that with my Web 2.0 video and my Research project, it's going to be a long weekend. Thank god it's raining and cold, otherwise, I might be complaining....
Friday, January 14, 2011
PE1 - eBooks
Since I know iMovie very well, I am doing my practical experience on the creation of eBooks. I have a book that I did in 2007 called Pro Tools for Musicians and Songwriters for Peachpit Press. I now want to update the book for Pro Tools 9 and make that into an eBook with interactive images and video tutorials. This is quite the daunting task as I dig into this more and more. It seems that Adobe InDesign is the standard application for creating eBooks. There are a few different formats just as images have jpg, tiff, pdf etc - Well, the standard eBook format is what's called an ePub file and InDesign can export ePub files. An iPad uses ePub files, but the Kindle uses its own format. I am focusing on the iPad since I want full color and interactivity.So - much of my practical experience will be using InDesign, but there are a few other different applications that I will be using along the way.To learn this, I started by looking on Lynda.com and while they have InDesign tutorials, and one does mention eBooks and ePub, it doesn't really cover what I need. The author is teaching about creating interactive content with InDesign but he is creating SWF, (Flash) files and the iPad doesn't support Flash. So, I googled the author, found his email at Milwaukee School or Art and Design and contacted him directly to ask about adding video tutorials for the iPad. I haven't heard back yet. Fingers crossed.To get started learning, I watched this:and then I went to this very cool site called CreativeLive.com - http://creativelive.com/They have a class that I purchased - http://creativelive.com/courses/ebookswithcs5which I am very pleased with, but a bit overwhelmed.So, I am on the way, I'll keep you posted, as I make progress.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
BP2 - iGoogle setup
Here is my home page:
Here is my FSO Tab:
And here is my CBR tab:
And here is my ECT tab:
Saturday, January 8, 2011
BP3 - Web 2.0 Tools
First of all, as a software developer, I haven't heard the term Web 2.0 since 2008 - I was reading many articles that also believe the term is outdated - To me, all "Web 2.0" means is that the internet has improved and anything Web 2.0 has more of a Wow factor than the first few years of the internet. Pretty much everything is Web 2.0 today, from my perspective.
Here is an interesting article that I also agree with: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/web-20.html
I played with a bunch of the Web 2.0 tools on the GoWeb2 site and ending up choosing one called Quizinator because it called itself an LMS and I wanted to see what it was all about. Here is a URL to their site: http://www.quizinator.com/
Quizinator is a little app that allows teachers to create exams, quizzes, save documents, worksheets, study sheets etc and then provide a URL to students to download. It's not very sexy or cool. It has no interactivity. It just creates the document and what it creates are really plain and just all around boring. Personally, I would be using Google Docs (probably many form templates out there) or a Google App, before I'd mess with this app. Maybe it's just old and was cool back in its day....
My process was just creating an account, choosing what kind of document I wanted to create. I chose a quiz and then I added a few different types of questions. I chose multiple choice, a true/false and short answer just to see what the format looked like.
Here is a link to the short little history quiz I made: My Quiz
And here is a screenshot of the tool itself during creation:
There are so many cool sites now that do so much more than this app does for teachers. One site I found was MyGradebook.com
It's a very deep site and I didn't think it was very intuitive, but the concept is great but very much like a watered down version of Blackboard.
There are some fun Web 2.0 Quiz sites such as http://www.mystudiyo.com/ This site was really fun and cool.
I created an account and put together a short quiz on this site. Here is the process as I was constructing the quiz.
This quiz site does keep track of each person's wrong and right answers and you can imbed images and videos which I did. Here is My 2nd Quiz
Here is an interesting article that I also agree with: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/web-20.html
I played with a bunch of the Web 2.0 tools on the GoWeb2 site and ending up choosing one called Quizinator because it called itself an LMS and I wanted to see what it was all about. Here is a URL to their site: http://www.quizinator.com/
Quizinator is a little app that allows teachers to create exams, quizzes, save documents, worksheets, study sheets etc and then provide a URL to students to download. It's not very sexy or cool. It has no interactivity. It just creates the document and what it creates are really plain and just all around boring. Personally, I would be using Google Docs (probably many form templates out there) or a Google App, before I'd mess with this app. Maybe it's just old and was cool back in its day....
My process was just creating an account, choosing what kind of document I wanted to create. I chose a quiz and then I added a few different types of questions. I chose multiple choice, a true/false and short answer just to see what the format looked like.
Here is a link to the short little history quiz I made: My Quiz
And here is a screenshot of the tool itself during creation:
There are so many cool sites now that do so much more than this app does for teachers. One site I found was MyGradebook.com
It's a very deep site and I didn't think it was very intuitive, but the concept is great but very much like a watered down version of Blackboard.
There are some fun Web 2.0 Quiz sites such as http://www.mystudiyo.com/ This site was really fun and cool.
I created an account and put together a short quiz on this site. Here is the process as I was constructing the quiz.
This quiz site does keep track of each person's wrong and right answers and you can imbed images and videos which I did. Here is My 2nd Quiz
BP1 - Welcome to my Blog
I've been blogging for years with my business - so this is a piece of cake for me. I hope this class gets more advanced.
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