Thing #8 Quizzes and Assessment Tools

Quizzes and Assessment Tools 

Socrative is a great tech tool to complete fun and informative assessment with students. With this assessment tool, you can teach and engage students from any device (PC, iPhone, Andriod, Tablet,) during class. "Keep your cellies out kids! We are going to take a test on them." All of the activities on this platform visualize student activities in real-time and follows up with detailed reports afterwards. You are limited to just quizzes and exams on this platform.You can engage in your students by asking quick questions, true false questions, and short answer questions. There are also features for fun games and out-of-the-door exit tickets!

Quizlet is another great tool you can use to generate quizzes. This website allows you to learn more effectively without staring at illustration and covering labels with your thumbs. This platform has a diagram-specific study activity that you can use to review and master learning material and content in a fun and interactive method. This website makes it simple for users to create and share online learning materials. Other tools offered include making flashcards, practice spelling, and playing learning games, test knowledge and collaborate with other students.

Thing #7 Wikis

Wikis are used by institutions and individuals alike all over the country to collaborate, write, pool knowledge or exchange ideas on a simple to build easy to navigate website. The word Wiki originated from a Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki" which is indicative of something fast!  Wikipedia is the biggest wiki website today with an over 1 million wiki entries on the website. The major difference between wiki sites and other knowledge based sites is that Wiki sites are created, collaborated, edited and maintained by its authors and users. This allows new information on a subject to be added, or false information to be removed from a particular wiki entry. I would not recommend using wikis as a credible scholarly source when it comes to academics unless it is supported by a reputable institution such as the one listed below. As with all wikis, they die out or become obsolete over time if they are not maintained.

BookLoversWiki is a wiki page dedicated to, well, book lovers. On this site you can read reviews and summary's from books and their readers. I like the variety of books included in this wiki from romance novels to horror books. Relatively small in comparison to other wikis, this gives you a fresh ideas on creating or contributing to a book wiki library website.

Thing #6 Image Generators

Image Generators are used to magnify and elaborate illustrative art work from words. Students will have fun creating different illustrations for projects and assignments alike. I found two image generating tools that I like here. Wordclouds and Wordle are fairly similar sights you can utilize to create your perfect word cloud or your project. 

Wordclouds.com is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator that works on your PC, tablet or smartphone! You can paste text, upload a document or open an URL to automatically  generate a word- or tag cloud. You can also customize your clouds with shapes, different themes, colors and fonts. With Wordclouds, you can also generate clickable word clouds with links to share or save online.


I made my wordcloud based on Valentine's Day with a pink, red, and purple themed heart!







Wordle.net is a toy for generating word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to your own desktop to use as you wish.

Here is a word cloud for the United States of America.