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"Depending on the features you enable in Quizizz, a quiz-based website, kids answer questions and score points based on the correctness of their response and how quickly they give it.  They can run out of time and lose the opportunity to answer too. "

What is AnswerGarden? AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback. Who uses AnswerGarden? AnswerGarden has many different users: classroom, conference and corporate audiences, creative teams, online crowds, mindmappers, and more! Benefits of AnswerGarden: AnswerGarden fits educational, professional and creative purposes, is standalone and embeddable, and shows thousands of answers in a glance!

The Smithsonian is all about questions and answers, and it is people who bring those questions to life. We created seven quirky characters to symbolize the questions the Smithsonian asks and answers every day: The Wild represents the diversity of the animal kingdom The Green reflects the wonder of the natural landscape The New is where technology and creativity collide The Masterpiece embodies artistic expression The Storyteller is about America, its people and the tales they tell The Discoverer explores our world and the universe These characters help us show why Smithsonian is Seriously Amazing. Look for them inside the question mark!

The Answer Pad (TAP) is a multi-platform BYOD (bring your own device) student dialogue system that focuses on real-time assessments. Teachers can register for free, create their class, and sign up their students.

Insight into the importance of asking questions and taking in answers.

This is a good answer to dealing with Flash and iPads. It seems to work very well with Flash-based websites.

"A while back, I was asked, "What engages students?" Sure, I could respond, sharing anecdotes about what I believed to be engaging, but I thought it would be so much better to lob that question to my own eighth graders. The responses I received from all 220 of them seemed to fall under 10 categories, representing reoccurring themes that appeared again and again. So, from the mouths of babes, here are my students' answers to the question: "What engages students?""

"I take a look at four ways that teachers can add questions to a YouTube video for their students to answer when watching a video at home or on their own."

"Create and play your own free educational quiz show templates!" Why use eQuizShow to make your quiz show templates? Show students questions & answers to review; no PowerPoint; No registration required.

"Teachers know their students best. CommonLit is not a scripted curriculum - we provide high-quality materials, selected by teachers, to help professionals teach at the highest level. CommonLit is compatible with any curriculum or standards. Our goal is to challenge students to think deeply and answer important questions. We help teachers meet reading standards in every state. Engaged students learn more, do better on standardized tests, and become life-long readers. We help teachers get kids excited about the themes that run through life and literature."

"CoRubrics, an add-on for Google Sheets helps teachers in the assessment process. It is used to assess students (or groups of students) with a rubric designed by the teacher and also allows students to assess other students (coevaluation). CoRubrics automates the entire process. First, teachers design the rubric they want to use in Google Sheets, then they add the students' names and their email address. (These can be imported from Google Classroom). Once this is done, the add-on will: Create a Google Form with the contents of the rubric. Send the form to the students by email or simply provide the link to the teacher. Process the data once the form is filled out (by the students or by the teacher). Finally, send the results to the students (each student receives only their results) with a personalized comment. In addition, CoRubrics allows: Insert comments when answered. Allow Co-evaluation, self-assessment and teacher assessment with one link."

"Insert a web address of a Wikimedia Commons image or a Wikipedia article to start the tool. Answer the questions about the intended use to create a correct license notice. Read how to use the license notice. Copy the generated license notice and insert it into your publication to use the image correctly."

"Give your lessons a unique spin which leads to a different learning experience everytime you play! Make a set of questions and build your own themed revision game for students to race each other round whatever kind of track you can imagine. Students join the game on their own devices and have to answer questions to move their player on the game screen. "

a free quiz game platform. Students play your quiz games on their laptops or tablets by going to the Quizalize website then entering their names and a class code. Students are awarded points for correctly answering questions quickly.

"Students and teachers can use the Share to Classroom Chrome extension to share web content. Teachers can use it to create and share assignments and announcements as well." Link to Chrome Web Store to add the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/share-to-classroom/adokjfanaflbkibffcbhihgihpgijcei

"AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook."

"What does student engagement look like? I have received this question from teachers in a number of different forms. Often the words "apathetic" or "unmotivated" are used in place of "disengaged." But the point is the same. Many of us have had students in the classroom whose stubborn lack of interest or motivation threatens to undermine the positive learning environment we've tried to create. How do we turn this around?"

"One teacher followed two students for two days  and was amazed at what she found."

YouTube provides an option for doing a review for AP courses. "How do I start streaming? To go live using Stream now, open your encoder and start streaming from youtube.com/live_dashboard. There is no start button in the live dashboard." Here is a link to a web article from Richard Byrne about a teacher using YouTube Live for an AP European History review: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/05/try-youtube-live-for-review-sessions.html#.WRmz7esrKM8