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Ideas to Strengthen Patriotism Education at Schools

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Recently the international community is watching closely on the dispute between UK and Argentina over Falkland Islands. Both sides have their own standpoints. It is too complex to tell who is wrong or right, but one thing we can learn from the issue between UK and Argentina is that patriotism should be passed to the mass deeply. Pupils and students, certainly, come as the first group to accept the patriotism education. In this situation, teachers are the critical guides, and schools are the education platform. It is necessary to make the young know what is patriotism, whether through traditional ways like visiting, reading, etc. or the modern technological methods, such as watching videos, taking some Flash history quizzes, etc.

Teachers are suggested to cultivate students’ patriotism from things close to them, which will make the meaning of love for motherland more acceptable.

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Be the Real Owner of Your Quiz: Track Quiz Results More Safely, Stably, Flexibly

Monday, January 18th, 2010

HR directors, trainers, teachers, etc. use quizzes for assessment more and more frequently. It matters a lot whether the quiz results can be analyzed and reported reasonably on time. Administrators will know the quiz takers’ situations through quiz reports and take corresponding actions. Many tools are invented to help them track, analyze and report quiz results effortlessly. Some Online quiz tracking systems are powerful and easy to use, but many users have concerns about the data security and stability. Therefore, standalone quiz tracking and processing systems come to remove users’ worries. The standalone systems can be installed on user’s own server and allows HR directors, educators and trainers to track, analyze and report quiz results accurately and flexibly. Thus many questions can be solved easily.

Question 1: How can we protect the quiz data from being purloined?

Answer: Quiz data is safe on your own server.

The big companies, governments, research centers, etc. have much stricter requirements on data security. Once some materials get divulged, the loss may be out of imagination. If tracking and collecting important or private assessment results with online systems, the units or quiz owners will run more risks. On the contrary, data can be well protected on your own servers. It’s just as no one would count large amount of money on street instead of doing so at home.

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Branching Quiz + Psychological Test ≈ You, He, She or I

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Do you feel confused about the title? Ok, let me show you the explanation. Branching quiz is the quiz that can send quiz takers to different slides or questions based on their answers to previous questions. It is widely used in various surveys, especially psychological test and character study. The branching quiz brings a revolution to the relating survey and test field. Though the test cannot totally showcase real character or psychology status of you, him, her or me, we can take the results as reference. Have you been clear about the formula in the title?

Psychological tests are used frequently in our life. Let’s see:

Are you a Human resource director? It is necessary to know the interviewees and the employees’ psycho-status and make the proper recruitment and improvement.

Are you a psychologist or psychiatrist? Knowing more about your patients will make you communicate with patients more smoothly.

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Top 5 Hot E-learning Topics 2009 and Ed Tech Prediction 2010

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

The New Year is coming! All kinds of summaries for 2009 and predictions of 2010 come into view at this season. Education, one of the most important focuses, has certainly becomes the hot topic. For example, Jeanne Meister, author of the New Learning Playbook blog, wrote a prediction post on the five words to describe corporate learning in 2010. Have you ever noticed these hot discussions? Here we will show the top 5 E-learning Topics in 2009 and the Education technology trends prediction in 2010 to teachers, students and anyone who cares the education issue.

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Make a Multimedia Christmas Flash Quiz to Liven up Your Holiday

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Christmas will be on our doorstep soon! What have you prepared for this happy moment? Have you got any special ideas for the celebration? Can we enjoy the holiday and also pass the knowledge to the young at the same time? To achieve these, the multimedia Christmas quiz is a good way to share Christmas knowledge and liven up your holiday.

The multimedia quiz embedded picture, audio, Flash movie, shows us a vivid quiz show. This funny Christmas quiz with our careful design offers him, her, you and me a chance to enjoy the exciting Christmas season but also test their understanding of Christmas. Here are some sample questions you may use in your multimedia Christmas Quiz:

Which picture includes Santa Claus? – Make a Flash quiz with picture to share cute Christmas image riddles. Pictures are always more attractive than the plain text. Colorful images help the quiz taker have a good mood. Search your favorite Christmas pictures.

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Clever Ways to Use the Blank Page in Flash Quiz Maker

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Nowadays, e-learning gets more and more popular and becomes an important and efficient way for educating and training. Online testing is one important process of e-learning. Teachers, trainers, human resource directors, etc have shown their great interests on making quizzes with Flash quiz maker software like QuizCreator. Users can make quiz easily with this tool; nevertheless, some users may get confused about how to use the function called Blank Page. Thus, in the following text we will take QuizCreator as an example to suggest you some uses of “Blank Page”, the interesting and practical function.

Blank Page is specially designed to works as a complementary tool to the 9 question styles that makes your quiz more wonderful and efficient. We can use it in many aspects.

Let’s explore the use together:

 1. Show an integrated quiz in different parts

If you are a teacher or HR, for oft, you may need to check the quiz takers’ knowledge in several aspects, such as the use of language, the ability of logic thinking, the knowledge of math, and many others. It is not suitable to mix all the different subjects together, because this mixture could disturb the participants’ thoughts. At this time, if you can separate the quiz into several parts using Blank Page, the whole test will show in clear and fresh outline.

Flash quiz maker

In the Blank Page, you can mark out the name or subject of the particular group of questions. It offers a smooth transition for the test.

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Make a Hotspot Quiz with Multiple Hotspots

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

A hotspot question is a question that requires the quiz taker to click on the correct areas within the image to answer the question. Hotspot questions are used widely in software simulations, geography, and where users have to identify something from a picture. It is an excellent way to add more interactivity to your quizzes by adding hotspot questions.

QuizCreator has the feature of adding hotspot questions to quizzes. The hotspot questions feature allows users to create multiple hotspots in one image with multimedia supported. Let’s take a simple example about how to make hotspot questions with QuizCreator.

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How to Make Flash Quizzes without Adobe Flash

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

As we know, Adobe Flash is a powerful tool to create any Flash movies. Making an interactive Flash quiz is one of the common uses. However, not everyone could afford $699 to possess such a tool, also, not everyone has a good command of Action Script. So, when you want to make a Flash quiz, Adobe Flash may be not always the idea tool. Some 3rd party Flash quiz software could help you create Flash quiz with ease. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a Flash quiz with QuizCreator. (more…)

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How to Choose the Right Web Quiz Software

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Web quiz software comes in many varieties and flavors, making it difficult to compare applications. The proper Web quiz software will help you improve efficiency while the wrong software can throw your financial records into a tailspin that will cost you both productivity and money to recover from. This article will give you some simple guidance to choose the right Web quiz software.

The other day, Dottech.org did a professional review for a Web quiz software QuizCreator. It evaluated the quiz software from the aspects of ease of use, usefulness, performance and arbitrary equalizer, this provides some references for Web quiz software seekers. So, I will set forth my guidance based on this review. (more…)

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12 Free Online Quiz Makers to Create Online Quizzes

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

I often receive a lot of questions about how to make online quizzes for free. Here is a collection of 12 free online quiz making applications I collect after days’ collection. These apps will help you make quizzes for online use for free. Do you know of any other free online quiz makers that can be helpful? Please add your favorites in the comments.

ProProfs | Classmaker |QuizCenter | QuizBox | Google Docs | MyQuizCreator |

Quibblo | eQuizzer | Quizilla |Quizz.Biz | MyStudiyo | EasyTestMaker |

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