Review of a quiz maker and video tool

ProProfs Quiz Maker (http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/create-a-quiz.php) is a Chrome app. I chose this one because I have been looking for quite a while to find an online secure Quiz taking feature that is flexible for my Moodle course. I think this one has what I am looking for in a program. There are various templates you can use, pre-fab questions set up for different things--personality quizzes and all kinds of funny stuff--and a place where you can create your own quiz that is scored for you. There is a free version for educators, but there are limited features in that version. I think I will use this to provide quizzes in an online course environment, but I think it would be easy to use this with a link on a blog, wiki, or whatever else.

Zaption (http://www.zaption.com/) is a program that you can use to make videos interactive. You choose a video and put it in the program. You can stop the video at any point and insert questions which will pop up when the students watch it. You can see their answers under the analytics tab by downloading them and the students can rate the video. There are lots of options and I really like it so far. I think educators use videos a lot and this allows the students to interact and process the video as they go through it instead of zoning out during the video and then wondering what they just saw at the end.

Web 2.0 tools

A couple of my favorite video enhancing tools are Zaption and Educanon.  You can insert questions in multiple formats into any video that you would like to use in class.  Neither of them take very long to create!  My biggest time investment comes in finding a quality video to use!

Another favorite of mine is Blendspace.  It is a way to blend your resources into one space--videos, websites, files, quizzes, etc.  You can put everything together, arrange and rearrange the order of presentation and then you have everything together and don't have to fish around with 70 tabs open.  It's all there ready for you!  I loved using it-especially for my history lessons in French.

Some of the timeline creators that I have asked students to use in the past include Tiki Toki,
Time Glider, Capzles, TimeToast, and Dipity.

To make an interactive flip book from pdf's or whatever else, try FlipSnack.

Here is a wiki with tons of ideas for 2.0 tools  Cool Tools.  I need to go back and look around some more!

Here are some blogs I recommend you follow if you are interested in educational technology...

Cool Cat Teacher - Home
http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/

21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning
https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom
http://blog.web20classroom.org/

Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners
http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/

Dangerously Irrelevant
http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/

Darcy Moore's Blog
http://www.darcymoore.net/

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/

Free Technology for Teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/

Philly Teacher
http://mbteach.com/

Tom Murray
http://www.thomascmurray.com/#!blog/ck0u

Welcome to my blog!  This inaugural post on Blogger is one of many to come!  Watch for my reflections on Ed Tech tools!