Thing #6

Discovering Web 2.0 Online Tools... and they're free!

Have you ever seen the wall of paint sample cards at a home improvement store?  A wall covered in little, colorful squares just barely different from the one next to it.  At first you are a little mesmerized by all the color, but then you realized you can only use one and you just wonder, where do I begin in picking just one?  That's how I felt when I first opened the Web 2.0 Tool webpage. I had no idea the shear amount of sites that were available!  The neat thing was that with a little creativity, teachers could make a lot of these sites suitable in their classrooms and the only thing it would cost them is their time.  I spent a fair amount of time perusing different links trying to find a good site that I thought I might really use in my classroom someday.  After trying quite a few options, my favorite site I landed on was QUIZinator.

QUIZinator is a website designed to help educators create, manage, and store tests and quizzes.  A unique feature to QUIZinator is that the site stores questions individually, rather than whole test documents, allowing the user to drag and drop questions to change the test difficulty or add variability between test versions.  The site can also automatically rearrange questions or answer choices on a particular test or quiz to reduce the likelihood of cheating.  There is quite a bit of storage space on QUIZinator, which prevents that panic of losing the test with a lost memory stick or hard copy.

I really liked the ease of test and quiz creation this website offered.  It is free to sign up, and appears to be really user friendly.  I thought this was a great tool for teachers to use to store a large test bank and make one part of teaching just a little easier.