10 Ways To Learn In 2010

1. Learn through Visual Search Engines
2. Learn from Word Clouds
3. Ask a Question
4. Think Visually
5. Hang Out with Professors
6. Watch Documentaries
7. Tune In to Big Ideas
8. Learn through Twitter
9. Hop Into a Debate
10. Create a Mashup

Jane's Pick of the Day: Wondershare QuizCreator

Jane's Pick of the Day: Wondershare QuizCreator: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Learn More About Thanksgiving as a Chinese

Thanksgiving is traditionally an American holiday. It is usually a time when family or loved ones get together, eat huge amounts of food, and celebrate the things they are thankful for. Most of the time there is a parade to watch and a football game too. Many people decorate their houses with items that are reminiscent of the first Thanksgiving. In many schools, children get to reenact Thanksgiving by dressing as the Pilgrims and the Indians and having a meal that they share. Usually the kids make costumes for this giant feast.

Wondershare Releases QuizCreator 4.0 with Survey Creation Feature

Wondershare Software Co., Ltd., an innovative consumer software provider in China, released QuizCreator 4.0 integrating the features of both quiz creation and survey creation. The Quiz Management System (QMS) 4.0 has been redesigned for better content management and report generation. Trainers, teacher, instructors and marketing directors can now make the most of these products for diverse assessments.

"Survey creation is added to QuizCreator 4.0 and the tracking features of QMS are upgraded," said James Hui, Product Manager of Wondershare Presentation Tools Department. "This new assessment solution can bring more benefits to educators, instructors, etc."

Enhanced Features of QuizCreator 4.0 and QMS 4.0:

Easy survey creation - Creating surveys by filling the questions in the pre-set form. 9 pre-set question forms are available such as Likert Scale, Pick One, Shot Answer, etc. Multimedia files can be inserted to make the survey engaging.

Manual grading - Subjective quiz questions can be graded on QMS. Comments can be added as feedback.

Online content generation - Quiz/Survey questions can be uploaded to question pool on QMS for generating assessment content online.

Insightful Reports - More insightful breakdown reports can be generated according to the specified conditions.

More new features - Delicate player templates with adjustable size; Brand-new interface of QMS; Improved searching options with tags and filter...

The combination of QuizCreator and Quiz Management System is a cost-effective assessment solution serving many educational institutions and organizations. With the quiz/survey creation feature of QuizCreator, and the result tracking, scoring and report generation features of QMS, the complicated process of the assessment is simplified to a large degree.

For more information on Wondershare, visit http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator.html

 

Pricing and Availability

QuizCreator 4.0 is available at US $169.95 and can be purchased at http://www.sameshow.com/quiz-creator.html

For a free trail, please visit: http://www.sameshow.com/download/quiz-creator-download.html

 

About Wondershare

Wondershare Software Co., Ltd. is an innovative consumer software player dedicated to bringing consumer software products and services in terms of multimedia, business and other ranges. The company has extended its business worldwide and has set up operations in the USA, Germany and Japan. Due to its persistent innovation, Wondershare has been honored by ranking 41st in the Deloitte Technology 2009 Fast 500. For more details, please visit: http://www.wondershare.com

 

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10 Reasons for Changing from Paper and Pencil-Based Exams to Online Assessments

1. Reduction in Costs - Development and delivery of online exams is more efficient and cost effective when compared to the distribution of paper and pencil-based exams, especially when distribution occurs over a large geographical area. Distribution of paper and pencil tests is no longer needed and there is no longer a need for costly scanners and the costs associated with distributing the test results (packaging and postage). Another advantage is the reduced costs associated with storing the enormous volume of data.

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2. Reduces Logistical Challenges – Conducting paper and pencil exams is logistically complicated as you try and arrange test times around location and staffing issues. There are plenty of things that could wrong, most importantly test security.

3. Improves Test Security and Reduces Cheating  – An online test minimizes the risks associated with cheating. It is much more difficult to lose physical control of the test without a coordinated effort among several people. Also, computers do not know the candidates and the scores cannot be skewed because of that fact.

Online testing also allows you to randomize the order of test questions within an assessment. This allows you to give “multiple forms” of a test without the arduous task of creating numerous paper and pencil versions of the same test. This is just one more example of how online tests can minimize cheating. Experience the randomization feature of Wondershare QuizCreator.

4. Increases the “Timing” of Tests – Tests are usually administered in group settings and online tests will allow you to vary the “timing” of tests. What this means is online testing allows for more individualized self-paced learning. If some students are achieving at a faster rate, then they can be administered a test and upon receiving a passing score, can proceed to their next educational objective.

5. Allows for the Development of Item Banks – Creating questions and organizing them into assessments -- tests, quizzes, exams, and surveys allows the test developer several options for delivery, analysis, and revision.

6. Time Savings - Since online tests are automatically scored, staff is relieved of the burdensome chore of scoring exams (also the task of receiving the tests and shipping the results). Students and instructors will also receive immediate feedback of results. There will be no “lag” time between test administration, scoring, and remediation. What a great way to enhance learning!

7. Opportunities for Multimedia Uses - Online tests can be embedded with graphics and multimedia (i.e. Adobe Flash animations and videos). This can create a more interesting, interactive, and challenging assessment for examinees. There are testing software options that provide auto-sensing and auto-sizing for flexible delivery options and some even allow for translations into different languages.

8. Analyze Feedback from Test Administrations – Online tests provide many more ways to analyze testing data. Testing software can provide each examinee with a coaching (scoring) report that provides not only the overall result, but scores can be broken down by duty area. Results should then be analyzed according to individual students (relative strengths and weaknesses), individual instructors, and for the overall program. In other words, did an instructor adequately cover the standards? Did the curriculum align to the standards? Did the program meet requirements at the local or state level?

9. Item Analysis – Online testing allows you the ability to introduce classical test theory to your assessments, i.e. item analysis. This involves the use of many statistics that can provide useful information for improving the quality and accuracy of individual multiple-choice or true/false items (questions). Some of these statistics are: item difficulty (p-value), item discrimination (Point Biserial correlation), reliability coefficient, item-total statistics, and distractor evaluation.

10. Accessibility – Much of today’s technology allows you to meet your accessibility needs by providing the examinee with text-sizing and contrast controls. For example, delivery software can render HTML that is optimized to work with assistive technologies such as screen readers and the aforementioned text-sizing and contrast controls within assessments can aid participants with low/partial vision. There has also been improvement in the navigation of assessments via keyboards and/or alternate devices to accommodate participants who are unable to use a mouse.

Top 10 Tools for Learning 2010

1. Twitter - Microblogging tool

2. YouTube - Video sharing site

3. Google Docs - Office collaboration suite

4. Delicious - Social bookmarking tool

5. Slideshare - Hosting presentations

6. Skype - Hosting presentations

7. Google Reader - RSS / Feed reader

8. WordPress - RSS / Feed reader

9. Facebook - Social networking site

10. Moodle - Course mgt system

How do quizzes bring high-efficiency teaching?

Quizzing, as one of teaching methods, plays an important role in our teachers' teaching. There are paper-based quizzes and online quizzes. If we can use them on suitable situation, quizzes can bring us high-efficiency teaching. For example, we make quizzes to measure students' learning performance, improve our teaching strategies and get better teaching effects. There are some quizzes that teachers can make to bring high efficiency to our teaching:
 

1. Personality quiz — Know more about our students

As we all are aware that knowing the students' psychology is the premise to perform an excellent teaching scheme. Well, a personality quiz about students' habits, character, interest, etc. may do a favor for us. By analyzing the test results, we can understand students' likes and dislikes, to take better and more suitable teaching strategies. On the basis of knowing students, we will have special strategies for - different students when we implement a teaching plan. Then the whole process of teaching scheme may be carried out smoothly.

2. Pre-class quiz — Prepare a good teaching scheme

Usually, making a pre-class quiz for the coming class will be effective for our teachers, especially the new unexperienced teachers. The quiz results will distinctly show us how much students have known about the coming class and how we should prepare a high-quality class with clear primary and secondary teaching plan.
 

3. After-class quiz — Know the teaching effects

When finishing a class, teachers have to get feedback on the class from students. An after-class quiz will provide great help to our teachers. From the quiz results, we may find students have uneven distribution status on mastering the previous class. The next step we need to do is to summarize our own defects and merits of teaching, making appropriate adjustment on teaching scheme for a more effective class.
 

4. Funny quiz — Make an attractive class

It is certainly advantageous for students knowing more extracurriculum knowledge, such as the World Cup, famous writers, basketball stars, etc. During class, we teachers consciously integrate some funny quizzes with teaching plan. Because the class is not a simply poor but colorful class with particular attractive content, students will have much more interest in the class.
 

All the quizzes we referred, personality quiz, pre-class quiz, after-class quiz and funny quiz can be tested in two different forms: paper-based quiz and online quiz.
 

Normally, we make paper quizzes with many complicated steps: editing questions, typesetting, printing tests, organizing taking tests, collecting and grading quizzes, collecting statistic data and analyzing the results, etc. But for the online quizzes, we can easily build them with professional quiz maker software like Wondershare QuizCreator. Making online quiz, we just need to create quizzes with multimedia and post them online. Then students will take the online quiz via Internet at anywhere anytime and the system that comes with QuizCreator can collect the quiz results automatically. See Quiz Management System (QMS) for more information.

It is such an effective, highly functional and convenient way to conduct almost every test we teachers can imagine, why not we take full use of the quizzes to get more high-quality education?

Download YouTube Videos with Your Firefox

You are only required to use Firefox browser, then you can easily and quickly to download YouTube videos without any other program needed.

Step 1. Download and install Firefox browser
Firefox is a free and powerful web browser, which has a lot of advantages in itssecurity, high speed, and various fluent and user-friendly functions over some other web browsers. You can easily download and install it here.

Step 2. Install the Fast Video Download
This is a plug-in for Firefox. It enables you capture streaming video from websites, including YouTube, Google Video, MySpace Video, DailyMotion, Metacafe, Break.com, MyVideo.de, and others. Download it with one click here.

Fast Video Download

Step 3. Download YouTube videos you want
After installing Fast Video Download, restart Firefox. In the bottom right, you’ll see the icon “FVD”. Just go to the page of the video you want to download, click that icon. Then you can seek your desired videos and download them from YouTube fast and easily. Of course, it also allows you to download videos from other popular video sites mentioned in step 2.