WEEK 8: NEW TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

This week I was trying different tools to prepare exercises for students and I wanted to try a new tool to make worksheets and I found a really interesting one: SMILE
All the websites are useful technology tools for teachers to make their lessons more attractive and appealing to students. I save the websites in delicious and in my FB, too. I assure that I will employ this material for my online lessons next year. In oroder to learn to profit from them I need time to explore these websites and make a trial with each of the options and possibilities.
For nicenet discussion I found a tool that is not mentioned but I helped me fulfill the task: Puzzle 

I copy this information from the Blackboard because I want to revise the websites after finishing the course:

Make exercises online to print out

• Tools for educators - word search, bingo, crossword puzzles, and board games: http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
• Lanternfish - flash cards, bingo games, matching, multiple choice exercises to print out: http://bogglesworldesl.com/
• Easy Test Maker (paper tests):http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx

Make exercises to use online or offline on a computer or to print out

• Hot Potatoes - download this program at http://hotpot.uvic.ca/ to use it on your computer. It's easy to use and lets you create matching, cloze, scrambled sentence, and multiple choice exercises and crossword puzzles. You can get help online or download this how-to PDF.
• See some interesting exercises at http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=technically-interesting-hot-potatoes-pages
• Crossword Puzzle Games - create crosswords to save and use on a computer or print out: http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html

Make exercises online to use online:

• Web Poster Wizard - free website for teachers and students to use as part of a course. It uses a very plain format, but it's very easy to create something with text, one graphic, and links on each of 4 pages:
  http://wizard.4teachers.org/
• SMILE- a variety of web-based activity generators. Requires a free registration. Click on "I am a new user" on the opening page in order to register. The applications here are quite interesting, but they take more time to learn to do. http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/mimea/smile/v2/index.php

After finishing this course I will come back to each of these reflections in this blog to revisit all the websites. I think this course is a must for teachers who want to implement technology in their lessons.