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
Hi Gina.
ReplyDeleteI think you made a great point about the term Web 2.0 being a bit outdated since almost everything on the Internet these days is collaborative, social and has the possibility of co-creation. Unfortunately, there are many people in my world of higher education that are kicking and screaming about the collaborative nature of the web and how it challenges traditional notions of intellectual property and what constitutes plagiarism and cheating in an educational environment.
I am looking forward to many interesting discussions with you over the next few months - you have an impressive background that is very different from my path to Full Sail. Good luck in the program.
Jude