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You can insert your own quizzes into YouTube videos. This might be a fun way to test students. "Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. To create a quiz on Blubbr start by entering a topic for your quiz. After entering your topic enter a search for a video about that topic. Blubbr will generate a list of videos that you can select from to use in your quiz. When you find a video that works for you, trim the clip to a length that you like then write out your question and answer choices." T/H R. Byrnes

"Here, four ways to offer feedback that really makes a difference, drawn from research in psychology and cognitive science:" These include: 1.Supply information about what the learner is doing, rather than praise or criticism. 2. Take care in how feedback is presented so it doesn't reduce motivation. Have learners be involved in analyzing their own performance. 3. Orient feedback to goals. 4. use feedback to develop metacognitive skills.

"Interactive, Collaborative, Crowd-powered Video Learning" MIT is using Crowdy to label and insert questions in segments of video to increase learning efficiency. Stats can be collected from learners' answers.

A video how-to. Image-based quizzes are good for more advanced students as well as beginners.

Another superb teacher-training video from R. Stannard on using Goggle Forms to create questionnaires, surveys, and quizzes.

"By revealing his own numerate inadequacies, this author describes a grading system where students accumulate points over a semester of assignment submissions and re-drafting. He claims it offers students more autonomy in controlling their "earned" grade as well as incentivizes their investments in the revision process. In contrast to the normative percentages approach to grading, this point accrual system not only gives students a less ambivalent form of grading but, also, moves them past surface-level revision and into rhetorical re-structuring." This article shows how to "gamify" the writing process.

This pdf has some good ways to check for understanding while in the process of reading a longer work.

This site links to a course design rubric for online and hybrid courses, promulgated by the California State University consortium. The site also links to K-12 and Secondary standards.

14 Free Tools -- includes Hot Potatoes, Quandry, JeopardyLabs, Edgames, etc. Games to revise/review as well as make your own quizzes.

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 "

Text analytics, the analysis of open-ended responses on questionnaires, could become the new wave of teacher/student evaluation. Teachers don't have time to read comments from student surveys, but that's where the most valuable information resides. But a chat bot could use text analysis to dig out and compile action points that might make an impact on learning. You can try out Hubert the chatbot by signing up at a link in this article.

R. Stannard training video on this important tool: "Quizlet 2017 is a complete introduction to all the basics of using Quizlet. In this video I will show you how to quickly get up and running with Quizlet without signing in and without making any flash cards. This is a useful educational technology that means you can revise and practice vocabulary at any time. Find flash cards and then start to revise the vocabulary through a series of games. This is a simple learning with technology tool that students and teachers can both use very quickly and easily. Watch these videos and when you know the basics you can also watch these more advanced videos. Learning with Technology Advanced Features in Quizlet"

R. Stannard on Quizlet - introduces Quizlet aspects, including Flashcards and testing; how to create study sets and use folders to organize your review materials for students.

This regular podcast looks like it might have some useful items -- worth keeping up with. And good listening practice for NNES teachers.

Quizlet is one of the most flexible self-teaching tools available online. It offers far more than quizes: Good for self-practice, flashcards, vocabulary study, etc. All the multimedia you want and students can create their own practices. This pdf booklet/Google presentation helps you get started with distance learning.

A blog entry about the new version of the OTE. Worth the read.

"Teachers using the Portfoliogen Classroom service can create their own webpage allowing their students to register and create their own portfolio websites. Collaboration between teacher and student is easy with administrative visibility to view students portfolios." This might be a good way to create a safe place on the Web to create and store student portfolios.

Great ideas for tools and their uses, categorized by media aspects, e.g., blogging and writing, photos, audio, PLNs, presentations, research databases, search, etc., with an intro to get you started. The list then continues with other, less frequently used tools, such as digital portfolios, Google drawings, notetaking tools, apps, etc.

"Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff" Looks like this would be fun, and templates for each type of activity are included -- flashcards, trivia game, spelling words, MadLibs, random picker, badges, progress chart, certificate.