This project seems to have had rather mixed outcomes – students weren’t very interested in using a game to familiarise themselves with university life unless it either (i) counted towards their award or (ii) they could win a prize (!)
A way to create and structure on-line web quests and web scavenger hunts – interesting with a number of existing quests for re-use. Generally American content.
A free (beta) site that enables the creation of good looking, automatically marked quizzes. Claims to be easy to embed into any web site – it remains to be seen whether Moodle will play ball or not.
Educational innovations and Web 2.0
Examples of Web 2.0 innovations in education
http://argosi.playthinklearn.net/evaluation.pdf
This project seems to have had rather mixed outcomes – students weren’t very interested in using a game to familiarise themselves with university life unless it either (i) counted towards their award or (ii) they could win a prize (!)
http://www.zunal.com/
A way to create and structure on-line web quests and web scavenger hunts – interesting with a number of existing quests for re-use. Generally American content.
http://www.mystudiyo.com/
A free (beta) site that enables the creation of good looking, automatically marked quizzes. Claims to be easy to embed into any web site – it remains to be seen whether Moodle will play ball or not.