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You can create a Jeopardy-type game easily online and show it through a projector. The teacher (or a student) has to add the score manually after each question is answered. But the site will store games in your account and you can browse and edit other people's templates (so far 1544 created).

A nice way to categorize and save "playlists" of various websites. C. Arena's are oriented to technology-using teachers. Collect a set and share with others.

Includes quiz=maker, a URL shortener, copyright-free stock photo site, social media aggregator, a pdf file merger, debate platform, etc. Very useful tools.

T/H to Glenn Hervieux 13 Dec 15 01:30:03 Great writeup by Tony Vincenton Quizizz, quiz game that can be used for formative assessment and how it compares to Kahoot!.

"Around this time last year I shared a neat Google Spreadsheets script called Flippity. Flippity was originally designed to help you create flashcards through Google Spreadsheets. This morning Steve Fortna informed me that you can now use Flippity to create Jeopardy-style gameboards through Google Spreadsheets. In the video embedded I demonstrate how to use Flippity to create a Jeopardy-style gameboard." T/H to R. Byrne

"Create a printable online quiz in minutes." Looks very WYSIWYG.

A follow-on video to the more advanced features of Quizlet: copying cards, editing, embedding, sharing with class groups, creating your own flashcards, etc. R. Stannard recommends viewing the first video before attempting these (link to intro included).

"Engage, Entertain, Train, and Collect Data. Sticky & Embeddable." You can make an interactive, multimedia quiz and embed it on your Website. One of the most slick looking interfaces, and it's free at the present time.

"LearnBoost empowers teachers and schools with a free all-in-one classroom tool. You can manage your classroom, track student grades, create lesson plans, mark attendance, view reports and more!" Very similar to Engrade. Offered in a dozen languages as well. Nice tutorials. Links to other Google apps, such as Calendar and Docs and Spreadsheets. Mobile able.

"The purpose of this assessment is to determine the number of high-frequency words that students know. LaBerge and Samuels (2006) call this automatic recognition of high frequency words part of automaticity. They state that when these words are instantly recognized, the short term memory is not overloaded and is freed to focus on comprehension of what is going on in the story. Therefore, this assessment can be used throughout the year to record students' growth in automatic word recognition."

This page explains how to create a Google form. You can make a quiz for your students and email it to them, collecting data from the form. You can require respondents to sign in to use the document, which helps with security. See the sidebar on the left for more instructions and tutorials.

Socrative http://socrative.com/ can be used to collect anonymouse questions and answers, ie, a survey, send a short quic to your students, including pictures/images, and se a space race game to moe rocket ship across the screen as a team (or individuals). Links to tutorial videos as well.

R. Byrne: "Wikispaces recently added a Quizlet widget to the library of widgets that you can embed into your Wikispaces pages. Quizlet is a free flashcard service that anyone can use to create and share flashcards. Quizlet offers a massive library of flashcard sets created and shared by other users of the service. And now you can search for Quizlet flashcards, embed them into your wiki, and use four different study modes while those cards are embedded into your wiki. The screenshots below provide directions for adding Quizlet to your Wikispaces wiki." Quizlet can handle various types of media, so it makes for interesting flashcards. This step-by-step visual explanation makes the embedding task easy; creating the flashcards at Quizlet takes some work and thought.

"Here are three tools that provide students with the option to answer questions or ask questions while watching flipped classroom videos." These include Video Notes, Teachem, and Blubbr.tv. Links also to VideoNotes that allows students to take notes while watching a video.

This app lets you peek into students' minds as they are in the process of learning a subject. Distribute tests or problems and then see each students' answer real-time. Students can enter text, draw pictures, use math symbols, etc. You score on a slider and they receive instant results. The animation on the sign-up pages gives some examples of each type of student response. The only problem might be that learning really takes place over a long period of time -- you can "know" some things, but not really understand or learn a subject.

"Find flashcards to study or create your own flashcards. "Study flashcards or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman, scrambled word, or bug chase. "Study flashcards anytime/anywhere by printing your flashcards or by using a flashcard app. " -- Subjects include geography, business, math, science, languages, medical subjets, and varies tests, such as GRE. Not specifically for ESL/EFL. Nice that you can use the flashcards on- or off-line.

"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. On September 1, 2009, Hot Potatoes was released as freeware."

Description from R. Byrne's blog: "Smart Kit offers a large collection of games, puzzles, and riddles for students of all ages. The content of the collection ranges from simple drilling-style games to challenging word puzzles. Smart Kit offers fifteen categories of games. The categories of most interest to educators are probably the math puzzles, physics games, and word puzzles categories."

R. Stannard training video for students: "This is a guide on how to use Quizlet to study vocabulary. If you are a teacher and you want to know what tips you can give to your students about using Quizlet, then this will really help you. It shows you ONLY the essential things that you need to show to students so that they can understand how to use Quizlet and how to organise their learning. If you do now know anything about Quizlet then I recommend you watch these videos first. Key Tools for Educators: A full introduction to Quizlet"

R. Stannard training video: "This tutorial is a quick set of videos that takes you through the key advanced features in Quizlet. It looks at features such as folders, class sets, creating your own cards etc. It provides you with lots of tips and tricks about using Quizlet. It also looks at Quizlet from both a teacher and student point of view. It begins with a quick review of the basics before going on to show you the more advanced features An excellent educational tool for both students and teachers. If you need to learn the basics of Quizlet first then you might like to watch these videos first. A full introduction to Quizlet: Key Educational Tool "