Embed a YouTube Video into Blogger Gadgets

It was interesting to me that because Blogger, You Tube and Google are all linked together, it is easier to load a video from You Tube into this post than to simply upload a video stored on your computer. The video directions below show how to place a You Tube video into your blog post.



Students in Mr. Connelly's Computer Apps Class: this is one of the tasks you will need to show in your final course assessment on your blog.

Survey Monkey (Click Title to Make a Comment)

(click to enlarge survey)

We used Suvey Monkey this past fall to design a music survey for our instructional assistants. We wanted to gauge people's familiarity with basic computer literacy skills. The free version of the survey provides for a total of ten survey questions per survey. (expanded capabilities has a monthly fee) We asked questions about favorite type of music, time period and artist.

The anaylyze data feature provides charts of the total responses. I also liked that you can send surveys via embedded link, as well as in the body of an e-mail.

In a co-teaching environment, Survey Monkey is a possible tool to gather student data such as an interest inventory or even a learning style profile. It also provides a decent digital platform for students to present results of surveys they create and design. Click on the

link to connect to Survey Monkey.

Click here to link to our FHUHS Music Survey.

Click Here to take survey

Music in Blog Post

(Click on the Start button to hear Madness!)

There is a pretty simple way to embed music posts or podcasts to your Blogger site. This might work well with students who want or need to create podcasts for a class that wants web access to listen to them.

I got the "how to" from the "Tips for New Bloggers" site.

Whose Desk Quiz with QuizCreator!

Students in our computer applications class just completed a schoolwide quiz which matched items of interest in a teacher or staff member's room with their name - sort of a teacher scavenger hunt. We gave the quiz online using QuizCreator software and we constructed hard copy quizzes students could fill out.

Click here to view our quiz. Enter your e-mail address and create a username to start.

QuizCreator uses Flash technology to make online quiz and test design quite an easy undertaking. Questions can be constructed in many forms: true and false, matching, short answer, even mapping. I really like the immediate response after a quiz taker submits their answer. Results are sent to the quiz taker's e-mail address and to the quiz designer.

Click here for a link to the QuizCreator web site