"Create 4.1.1 Define and Explain Learning Object Authoring Tools" Quest
Five Tools for Authoring Learning Objects
*3 tools that are free to use
ClassTools
Use these learning objects that you create embedded into your own webpage. These are awesome for use in the classroom with the SmartBoard during a station rotation activity or with the whole class as a review. Activities include: Living Graph, Timeline Tool, Keyword Checker, PostIt, BrainyBox, Connect Four quiz generator, and DustBin game generator, to name a few.
Quandry
This tool can be used to create web-based action mazes where the student is presented with choices that will lead him/her on a journey of problem-solving. I've seen these types of exercises on other peoples websites before and have had students use them and I am so glad now to know how to make them! Even better, one of the sample Quandry exercises is for students to make their own! I can't wait to do this! Below is a sample made by an ESL student that is published on the Quandry website.
Hot Potatoes
This is another software that I have seen on other peoples webpages and had students use! It is an excellent tool for creating MC, Short answer, jumbled sentences, crosswords, matching/ordering, and cloze exercises. Here is one of my favorite exercises to use with students where they watch a music video, then are asked to watch again while completing a cloze activity. Afterwards, students are then asked to listen and put the song lyrics in order. It is great for listening comprehension.
*2 tools that are fee/subscription based
Quia
This site allows teachers to create activities, quizzes, calendars, and surveys. You can organize separate pages for your various classes where the Quia activities your create (or poach!) are at the top of the class page and any other links you care to provide outside of the page are located at the bottom. Teachers can require students to log in so that progress can be charted or grades assigned. The fee is $49 per year.
Five Tools for Authoring Learning Objects
*3 tools that are free to use
ClassTools
Use these learning objects that you create embedded into your own webpage. These are awesome for use in the classroom with the SmartBoard during a station rotation activity or with the whole class as a review. Activities include: Living Graph, Timeline Tool, Keyword Checker, PostIt, BrainyBox, Connect Four quiz generator, and DustBin game generator, to name a few.
Quandry
This tool can be used to create web-based action mazes where the student is presented with choices that will lead him/her on a journey of problem-solving. I've seen these types of exercises on other peoples websites before and have had students use them and I am so glad now to know how to make them! Even better, one of the sample Quandry exercises is for students to make their own! I can't wait to do this! Below is a sample made by an ESL student that is published on the Quandry website.
Hot Potatoes
This is another software that I have seen on other peoples webpages and had students use! It is an excellent tool for creating MC, Short answer, jumbled sentences, crosswords, matching/ordering, and cloze exercises. Here is one of my favorite exercises to use with students where they watch a music video, then are asked to watch again while completing a cloze activity. Afterwards, students are then asked to listen and put the song lyrics in order. It is great for listening comprehension.
*2 tools that are fee/subscription based
Quia
This site allows teachers to create activities, quizzes, calendars, and surveys. You can organize separate pages for your various classes where the Quia activities your create (or poach!) are at the top of the class page and any other links you care to provide outside of the page are located at the bottom. Teachers can require students to log in so that progress can be charted or grades assigned. The fee is $49 per year.
CourseLab can be used to create learning objects that include animation, drop and drage, popups and video, to name a few. While there is a free version available (2.4), there is also a commercial product (2.7), both of which are supported on mobile devices. No specification were listed solely for the 2.4 version, but here are the "extras" available in 2.7:
- CourseLab v2.7 creates e-learning courses that are compatible with the latest versions of all popular web browsers - Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, including Safari on iPad/iOS (the free v2.4 creates output that is best viewed in Internet Explorer; creating cross-browser courses with v2.4 is possible but there are some limitations and special rules to follow).
- Many new VML/SVG vector objects allow data visualization (charts) and rapid development (e.g., tab blocks, image galleries).
- New question types: true-false, one-to-many, many-to-many. Detailed results on questions become available through the new Detailed results object.
- New animated characters and talking heads - different ages, different psychotypes.
- Global variables can be restored also from LMS. Physical size of suspend_data is decreased (therefore, SCORM 1.2 limitation on the number of questions per module is alleviated).
- About 10 new navigation objects, including Search objects, Alternative Module Path and Timer.
- General object events (such as mouseover and click, correct-incorrect answer for questions) can use sound effects.
- The object library is now open. Objects become editable by user. User can customize objects, create customized copies of objects or add new objects (XML/XSL/JavaScript skills required for that).
- Slides can be exported as images.
- The template library contains about 80 templates. The templates that were previously sold within Templates Pack 1 are now included into the distribution of CourseLab v2.7.
- The PowerPoint Import and Screen Capture Extra Packs that were previously sold as CourseLab add-ons are now included into the distribution of CourseLab v2.7.
- CourseLab v2.7 is available in several languages - English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese and Turkmen. Free CourseLab v2.4 is available in English only.
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