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Quia is pronounced key-uh and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a variety of educational services, including: * A directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in more than 40 subject areas * Templates for creating twelve different types of online games, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, challenge board, and rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game) * Tools for creating online quizzes * Quiz administration and reporting tools * Free teacher home pages

I think most students are familiar with using Google to search for things, so the interface is not a big stretch, as opposed to using other science specific databases available through the library. It does come down to what the objectives for the students are though, if you want them to find a few primary lit articles to include in a research project then Google Scholar would probably be just fine, but if you're objective is to get them ready for more grad level research then you probably want them to have to learn how to use some other databases ...

#IOLchat today on "creating a new online course" http://t.co/DzWyMrvP today at 12pET! #onlinelearing #edchat #lrnchat RT @Melissa_Venable: Are you creating your first online course? Have advice to share? Join me for an open discussion today: #IOLchat htt ...