Lonely Tuesday
Though our meeting last Tuesday was a bit lonely(missed some people), it was a night worth attending. I was running late for class that I almost decided not to attend thinking I would miss the beginning of the lesson. I was glad I came because when I got there only Mr. Babia & Rolly were in attendance, and I didn’t miss anything.
Rolly started demonstrating how to use the Quizzler by going through the steps of making the quiz from the memo first. Then he beamed his sample quiz on “Elements” to us and we played (notice I didn’t use “took the test”) for a little while. Seeing my score, it is needless to say that Chemistry is not my cup of tea. We beamed our score to Rolly, when we finished playing (testing) so it will be kept in the Gradebook. Gradebook is another program that works together with Quizzler. Then Professor Rolly wanted to see if we can create a simple test at that point. He had prepared a How to Create a Quiz handout to guide us in creating our own quiz, but forgot to bring it. Thanks to modern technology, we were still able to see the handout using Rolly’s laptop projected on the screen. Norman and I followed the procedure. I created a 12 true or false quiz for Romeo & Juliet. After we finished creating the quiz, we exited memo, and tapped on to quizzler. We were to import the quiz from the memo into the quizzler program. Once you do this, your quiz will show up from the memo, so you must tap the name of the quiz you made, and then tap “convert”. I was excited to try it out but something went wrong with my quiz. Some of the questions didn’t show up on the screen except the choices of answers. How weird was that! Rolly tried to figure out the problem but it would take more time so we decided to work on it together during our prep time. Based on my unfortunate experience, my advice to my colleagues: 1. Before giving the test to your students, make sure that you have tried it out first to check for errors and unforseen problems. 2. Double check the first choice answer for capitalization or else kids will have an idea. 3. To decapitalize, use shift on the keyboard before typing the first answer.
For our break Rolly let us play a game called SameGame in our handhelds. It was a nice stress reliever. I scored the lowest with 350, however I was determined to raise that scored. I played the game at home until my score went up to 1000’s.
Another game he shared was the idea of using Tick-Tac-Toe as a way for students to take turns in answering questions for a review or practice. I think it is great because when a student do not have the correct answer to the question, then he or she will lose a turn in Tic-Tac-Toe. This game just adds some excitement to having students work together in pairs when reviewing.
The last thing we covered in class was how to use Smartlist. This is a database program that allows you to design your own database of information. Rolly assisted us in designing a database for student descipline. My plan is to create a database for non-AR books, and another for the Board of Review.
Before going home Rolly showed us the most important websites that will be very useful in creating our ebooks. These are resize ??? (sorry, forgot the name) and Iaza. This will convert your picture in .jpeg format to .png so it can be seen in the handheld.
The new things I learned on Tuesday was really worth the extra time I spent in school. Yes by 7:15 pm I was very tired and hungry, but my mind was full of ideas as I was driving home.
March 7th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
I’m sure it turned out to be a happy Tuesday after all! We were there!
Hoow did you like Quizzler? Did you try using it since the Tuesday class? Have you tried using it with your own 6th grade class? How about SmartLis To Go? Have you tried using it since then? How do you think you can use the program in your daily teacher life?
The web tools we used are in my blog (www.edtechworld.com). Visit my blog and search for “iaza” or “resize” (I think!).
Great entry and reporting. Keep using your handheld computer!
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