Week 3 - Quia Quizzes and Activities

I found this section of the workshop really useful. I can see huge potential in being able to build my own quizzes and activities and tailor them to fit the needs or interests of my students. I created a quiz, a hangman activity (see above) and a scavenger hunt (see below) and found all of the templates really easy to use.


I particularly liked the Scavenger Hunt activity template which allows you to add links to websites and provide questions for students to answer when looking at those websites. This is really a much simpler version of the WebQuests we are creating in Integrated Method and would be a great way of getting students to do internet research on a specific topic in a really structured way using websites that you have vetted.

This site would also be a useful way of getting students to create their own quizzes and activities. You could use the design brief template that we were introduced to in this workshop to set them a task using the Quia site and then get them to investigate/design, produce and analyse/evaluate their own activity. You could also introduce an element of peer assessment by getting students to swap activities and analyse/evaluate each others. I can see this being really fun and engaging for students and a good way of getting them to use their higher order thinking skills.

Looking at the website there are also some useful tutorials to allow you to get the best out of the site and thousands of pre-made activities to choose from. There are over 1500 shared activities for English alone and therefore you can also refine your search by entering a key word, activity type, etc to find the activities that meet your needs. You don't even need to register to use these tutorials and activities so it would be a really good way of assessing the site before investing in the subscription. At $49 per year for the subscription I think this could be a really good investment particularly if the teacher testimonials on the site are anything to go by.