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.

Basic knowledge
National flag, emblem, and anthem are some basic knowledge for students. What is the meaning between the lines? Are there any historical affairs behind the song? Teachers need to guide students to respect their flag and other patriotic symbols. Protocols in these occasions are also one of the main tasks in patriotism education.

Festivals and memorable days
Apart from the concrete symbols of motherland, festivals are an important part to show the uniqueness of one country. Children may know the festivals including their dates, names, etc., but many of them haven’t been clear about the real meaning to celebrate the days. They have never heard or learned the story behind the symbols. It is teachers’ duty to make the students know the festivals are not just some names, but the lessons we draw from hardness, the glory we get from bravery, the memorial we keep for improvement.

History and international situation
Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything; you were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree. One of the critical parts in Patriotism Education is to make students absorb nutrition from what happened in the past – history. Touch them from the forefather’s struggle, bravery, wisdom, and decree. Let them realize the hardened journey to the happiness they are enjoying now. Also as George Santayana said, a man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. It is necessary to know one’s own country, while in the new century it is never too much to get familiar with the world. Students can only know the country completely after they have an overall view of the international situation.

There are a lot for students or pupils to learn in educational education, then how to guide them to accept and digest what they learn easily and effectively? Teachers and schools need to come up with some creative ways of this education.

Students will learn more when they participate in a program than when it was just done in the classroom. Organize some visits or programs to take students to the live site, which must be able to arouse their interests of learning. It is also a good idea to have some service men or the professional hands to come for the speeches. Interactive meetings will offer children good chances to communicate with the heroes or the professors. Besides these vivid teaching, schools can also show some videos or DVD movies to students for the education. It is necessary that schools offer students good sources and learning materials. The combinations of traditional and modern teaching as well as in-classroom and out-classroom teaching are efficient for patriotism education with high quality.

After teaching and learning, time to check or evaluate the result comes. Some discussions can be held, which plays as the platform for students to share their feelings and what they have learned. Quiz competition about national knowledge is also an inspiring method to encourage students. Nowadays technology develops so quickly, and the new advanced tactic will help us to share the knowledge with more people. Teachers create a PowerPoint presentation, and then share them on the Web. Schools can also make patriotism quizzes with quiz maker for students to take, and the quizzes could be shared on Web, so more people will learn the precious knowledge. It is also the valuable harvest of students themselves.

The importance of patriotism education is self-evident, and it is the duty and also the glory of teachers and schools to guide the young generation to the love of motherland. The goal is to make the student a thoughtful mind, “when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.”

Induction Training is absolutely vital for new employees, regardless of whether they are experienced or not. When come to a new company, new employees are thirsty to know more about their new work place, they want to quickly integrate into the new team. Many companies conduct induction training program to help employees integrate into the work environment. However, achieving the induction training goal within a short period of training time is really difficult. How to help new employees integrate into your new team quickly via induction training? Here are some points.

Make a good induction training plan
Making a good induction training plan is the cornerstone of success. The pre-piece stands, not pre-then waste. As an induction training manager, you should make a elaborate plan based on your company’s specific conditions and new employees’ characteristics before implementation. Training content, form, time, responsible person, cost should be included in your detailed plan.

Training content should be targeted
Induction training should be divided into basic training and professional training. Basic training includes corporate culture, corporate strategy, organizational structure, personnel welfare system, security, fire safety knowledge of common knowledge. Professional training is based on the level of the work responsibilities, work processes, working contents.Basic training can be for all new employees, while professional training should be conducted according to different departments and different types of work. Such training can help new employees quickly adapt to the environment and their new jobs and then improve their job performance.

Training form must be flexible
Make the form of induction training more flexible according to the new employee’s age, educational background, and training content.

• Outward Development – particularly helpful in training new staff’s team spirit and sense of innovation, and tapping new employees’ potential.
• Keynote lecture – invite leaders to conduct seminars and let new employees know company’s profiles to enhance their confidence for their occupation.
• On-site visit – lead new employees to visit representative production units, and make new employees have overall understanding for company operation process.
• Discussion between old and new employees – organize discussions between new employees and old employees. Old employees can share their work experience at company and the new employees ask questions and get answers about more details of the work or company, this can encourage new staff integrate into the company more quickly.

At the same time, training managers should strengthen the innovation of training form. Nowadays, induction training form becomes more diverse, more and more companies conduct E-learning and Mobile-learning to enrich their induction training program. These training forms will encourage new employees change their roles from outsiders into business professionals quickly and integrate into the new team. And it’s also an excellent opportunity to reinforce their decision to come and work for you.

Establish induction training effect feedback evaluation system
As with any type of training, it is important to review and seek feedback after induction training. The evaluation of induction training can be divided into three stages:
The first phase focuses on evaluating appropriateness for the training course content. You can organize all trainees to discuss the content of training course, and learn about their feeling for the training content.

The second stage focuses on the evaluation of new employees’ learning and academic performance. This can be evaluated through examinations: paper-based test is usually the most common way, but for the sake of time-saving and cost-effective, computer-based test will be the most recommending way. Making a test with Wondershare Quiz Maker, asking employees to take the test on computers, and then getting all the scores automatically.

The third stage, evaluation the work performance of the trainees through their supervisors. Through this, you can know how the new employees take their learned into practice. Also, you can learn the effect of induction training in practice.

In-service training is one of the most popular ways to help employees develop their skills in a specific discipline or occupation. This training offers them good chances to make improvements and also companies benefit a lot from it. On the other hand, there are indeed some shortcomings of this on-the-job training. Most typically, in-service training is conducted during a break in the individuals’ work schedule, so it will take up employee’s time for rest and also it is not easy to appoint a fixed time with so many people. Therefore, employers or trainers need to take some flexible training measures.

CBT training offers more freedom.

Computer Based Training (CBT) is used more and more in the big as well as small corporations. It has worked with an astounding rate of success. Distant learning, online courseware sharing system, etc. are robust assistants for learning in service.

From the employer’s perspective, training becomes an additional cost in terms of both time and money. CBT helps employees and also employers solve the problem. Instead of sending employees on a trip across the country to study, companies can host a Web seminar to have the class. The courseware can also be stored on the online sharing systems, thus trainees have the freedom to choose their own proper time to learn. More importantly, in the classroom version, employees sometimes felt like they were drinking from a fire hose — there was so much to take in all at once. People can learn what they need at their own pace with online sharing systems. And it’s easy for them to revisit things if they want.

Video helps.

It is said that learning by both words and sounds is more powerful. If trainers offer video courseware, learners always have a deeper impression compared with the stiff words. Besides, the training videos can be delivered to other employees and reused again and again as long as the information is still valid. Professional trainers are certainly needed, but videos are the next best training resources in the absence of human trainers.

After learning with videos or seminars, group discussion is suggested. The employees can be divided into small groups and it is more flexible. Within their groups, all the members can adjust their discussion time more easily in the comparison with a whole class.

Online test checks the training quality.

Maybe some trainers concern that the freedom offered to employees will reduce the efficiency of training and make them keep a slack hand. The worry is understandable, while there is a way of precaution. Trainers can set the basic class schedule, and announce the final test or exam. The evaluation of training must be the alarm clock and also the motivation for employees.

As for how to make an efficient test there is a suggestion that companies use quiz maker software like QuizCreator to create a quiz for online assessment. It supports strict time limit and instant results processing. This kind of computer based quiz can be taken at any time and trainees needn’t to gather together to take exams. Also the quiz management system offers detailed results data through which trainers will easily know the weaknesses and strong points of every quiz taker. According to the analysis, companies can take further actions.

Training on the job is an important tactic to strengthen employees, but trainers need to take flexible and effective ways to do the training, which will offer workmates more freedom and chances for autonomy learning. Learners love the convenience of a flexible, self-serve course. In-service training is no longer the burden, but the real method for employees to make improvement.

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.

Question 2: The online system cannot start normally sometimes, how to deal with it?

Answer: Track quizzes on your own server and you can take complete charge.

Online quiz management system is based on the service provider’s server, not your own server. Sometimes your tracking can be affected by the instability of their servers. With standalone ones, the quiz will be under your full control. Besides, it avoids the unnecessary negotiation with service provider.

Question 3: We have various requirements and injunctions to show different people the data of diverse quizzes. How can we handle it freely?

Answer: You take complete charge of the access and export of quiz data on your own server.

Online trackers offer some rights to set the permission of checking or exporting data, while that’s what the provider set ahead which may not meet your exact needs. Put the quiz management system on your own server, you can make changes freely.

People can draw conclusion from the quiz results, and also take it as reference in their future work. The security and stability of quiz data have become the hot topic among many people, especially in the group of big enterprises, governmental departments, other sensitive units and even some common people who care privacy. This situation calls for the safer results tacking tools. Standalone quiz tracking and processing systems like Standalone Quiz Management System is a good solution for the safety, stability and flexibility of tracking a quiz.

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — Wondershare Software, the professional developer of e-Learning authoring tools, today announced another assessment solution — Standalone Quiz Management System (Standalone QMS) for QuizCreator users, a secure web-based quiz results management system that allows HR directors, educators and trainers to track, analyze and report quiz results accurately and flexibly.

The Standalone QMS works seamlessly with Wondershare QuizCreator, a quiz maker that enables HR directors, educators and trainers to create Flash quizzes, tests and exams with multimedia. Users can now host Standalone QMS on their own servers which let users take full control of all quiz results easily. Everyone has the flexibility to create, analyze, customize and extend testing reports on demand. The Standalone QMS empowers users to do all this work without any other cost and time intensive implementation or ongoing maintenance of data warehouses.

“After we released online QMS last year, a large number of QMS users show their big interests in online QMS and provided valuable insight and feedback to us,” says Tobee Wu, President of Wondershare software.” In order to meet more users’ needs, we developed this Standalone QMS after months’ efforts.”

Key features of Standalone QMS:

– Host QMS on local area network (LAN) or Internet. Let the quiz results management be more secure, stability and flexible.
– Manage quiz results in a more flexible way to convert them into meaningful data or insightful reports.
– Control access to each quiz by making it publicly available, limiting access to specific users, or limiting access to organizations.
– Export quiz results in 3 widely used formats: Excel, PDF, and CSV.
– Create and issue certificates. You can customize the certificates with professional looking complete with signatures and organization logo, and issue the certificate to quiz takers with a passing grade.
– Get clear, insightful reports by 6 ways: scores of participants by quiz, scores of Individual participant, answers to quiz, choices of questions by quiz, and numbers of quizzes for all publishers.

For more information about Standalone QMS, please go to: http://www.quiz-creator.com/quiz-management-system-standalone.html

“The goal of developing standalone QMS is to let learning professionals maximize the utility of quiz results,” says Mike Wu, product manager of QuizCreator at Wondershare E-Learning Division. “This standalone QMS reduce users’ worry about data security, users can now experience the power of standalone QMS to improve teaching and training quality quickly and easily in a trustworthy, scalable and configurable environment.”

Pricing and Availability

Wondershare Standalone QMS is available to buy now from $449 to $999 according to different numbers of participants. To purchase Standalone QMS, please go to: http://www.quiz-creator.com/buy/quiz-creator-standaloneqms-buy.html

About Wondershare

As the professional developer of e-Learning authoring tools, Wondershare is dedicated to providing easy-to-use programs for learning content authoring. Wondershare E-Learning has served thousands of organizations from Stanford University, US Air Force to Siemens AG with preferred solutions. For more information, please visit: http://www.quiz-creator.com.

SOURCE Wondershare Software

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.

Are you a school or class headmaster? It is your responsibility to care the students’ situation including psychological affairs.

Are you a student majoring in psychology or business? You can benefit more from mastering some targeted groups’ features in characters.

Are you a person who wants to know clear about yourself? You will find yourself by knowing your own character or mind.

There are so many “necessary”, “beneficial” and “helpful”, and we need to make psychological tests. Making a branch quiz with Flash quiz maker is the flexible and effective channel to create such a psychological quiz. You can watch the sample here:

That’s an interesting branching quiz, isn’t? Maybe you think it is hard to make. As a matter of fact, it is easy to make with quiz software such as QuizCreator, an efficient branching quiz maker.

Apart from psychological tests, the branch quiz also offers you more conveniences to do other quizzes or tests. You can adopt the way of making psychological test to other fields like a quiz competition. As long as you think, we believe you can make full use of branching quiz made with quiz software and bring happiness to your life.

It is easy to make Flash branching quizzes with quiz maker, which brings you more convenience to generate psychological tests or surveys through which you will know others and yourself better. Enjoy making such a test and the surprise it takes to you!

ShenZhen, China, Jan. 11, 2010 — After months’ efforts to improve its products, Wondershare software today announced the availability of QuizCreator 3.2, a major software release giving HR directors, educators, and trainers unprecedented power and freedom to produce interactive Flash quizzes. This latest release QuizCreator 3.2 highlights several new features including branching, Text-to-Speech, multiple hotspots, setting points by answers and much more.

  QuizCreator is a Flash quiz maker that lets users make attractive Flash-based quizzes with images, sounds, narrations, animations and Flash videos to catch quiz takers’ eyeball and stimulate their interest to take quizzes. The office 2007 ribbon interface enables everyone enjoy the power of simplicity. The latest 3.2 version will make users be more productive to build quizzes.

   Key new features of QuizCreator 3.2 include the following:

  – Branching
Quiz designers can branch quiz takers to different questions depending on how they answer each question. It’s perfect for scenarios and remedial questions.
  – Customizing quiz login field
Quiz designers can add up to 8 custom quiz login fields to ask quiz takers for more information. It’s ideal to collect more information from quiz taker for future quiz tracking. 
  – Setting different points by answers
Quiz designers can set different points by answers for question type of Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, Matching, and Click Map. 
  – Text to Speech feature is available
QuizCreator now added Text to Speech feature by using Microsoft’s Text to Speech program, which allows quiz designers easily turn written text to speak voice. It’s easy to create interactive multimedia quizzes.
 – More powerful features for hotspot questions
QuizCreator now added arbitrary shapes as hotspots. It also supports multiple hotspots. You can define one more hotspots to be the right answers.
 – Add logo image in Author information
  ”We are continuing to do our best to improve QuizCreator to meet the needs for most HR directors, educators, and trainers, and we appreciated for your valuable suggestions about QuizCreator.” Said William Xu, Development Manager of Wondershare.

  Pricing and Availability
  Wondershare QuizCreator is available now at $129.95 per license and 25% OFF ($99.95) for non-profit and academic organizations. A free 30-day evaluation is available at: http://www.quiz-creator.com/download/quiz-creator-download.html.

For more info on QuizCreator 3.1, please refer to the product page http://www.quiz-creator.com/

  About Wondershare 
  As the professional developer of e-Learning authoring tools, Wondershare is dedicated to providing easy-to-use programs for learning content authoring. Wondershare E-Learning has served thousands of organizations from Stanford University, US Air Force to Siemens AG with preferred solutions. For more information, please visit: http://www.quiz-creator.com.

For more information, please contact:

Amada Qin
Wondershare Software
Tel: +86-755-86117747
Email: qingzw@wondershare.com

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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.

Top 5 E-learning Topics in 2009:

1. Twitter

Twitter shows its great energy in 2009. This community comes as the innovative learning and communication channel for people.

Tips: 29 Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom

2. Social Learning/Informal learning

Social media and networks are used in this kind of e-learning. Groups of individuals are using these new tools to collaborate and co-create content and generally work and learn together.

Tips: Measuring Social Learning

3. Google Wave

Google Wave is hotly discussed in the E-learning trends conference. It has strong potential to support powerful new models for social learning.

Tips: Google Wave in Education
4. SharePoint

SharePoint can be used to host Websites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined applications such as wikis and blogs.

Tips: Using SharePoint: eLearning Technology

5. Video

Video is the great element to make our learning alive. The online video sharing sites also encourage people to use and make videos for learning.

Tips: Top 10 Videos that Inspire US to Rethink the Way We Learn

Top 5 Education technology trends prediction in 2010:

1. EBooks will continue to proliferate.

EBook readers aren’t going to replace traditional textbooks anytime soon, but it won’t be long before someone adapts eBooks out of the consumer space and makes textbooks available on these portable devices.

2. Notebook functionality will grow.

Netbooks, known as relatively new category of small, light, minimalist and cheap laptops, have been quite popular throughout schools in US and are predicted to be more popular in 2010.

3. More teachers will use interactive whiteboards.

Interactive whiteboard allows teachers and students to work together easily. They have been used in a variety of situations such as in classrooms at all levels of education, training rooms , corporate board rooms, etc. and this trends will continue and even become hotter.

4. Personal devices will infiltrate the classroom.

The personal devices like iPod, and smart phone bring great convenience to the students. Some experts predict that these wireless, portable personal devices will be used more and the younger generation will also join in the user group in 2010.

5.Online testing will show its power.

The society pursues efficiency and speed more than ever. Online testing and assessment through making a Flash quiz or online quiz must be more frequently used in exams as well as evaluations.

The summary of 2009 is helpful for us to know the gains & loses and also the development of the education industry. You can learn the useful tips and technologies in Education to make your own teaching or study more efficient. As for the relating predictions, do you think they will come true? Let’s look for the answer in 2010 together.

As we all know, taking a quiz is a good and necessary method to test students’ performance and do other assessment work. Quizzes become more and more advanced and diverse with the development of computer technology. It has been an important means of learning and entertainment. There are three main types of quiz: paper based quiz, plain online quiz and Flash quiz. What are they exactly? Let’s see the sample for each.

Quiz based on paper:

Paper based quiz is the traditional form and used frequently, but it is too demanding to make one and you cannot share the quiz with others except print it or mail the paper.

Plain text quiz:

You can share the online plain text quiz easily through Web. A small number of the quiz creation sites can also support some advanced function like grading automatically, inserting picture and other settings. The problem is that you need to register and obey various rules on these sites when making and taking the quizzes.

Flash quiz:

Flash quiz is quite popular recently. People like making and taking such kind of quiz. The popular Flash quiz has many advantages and you can benefit from making a Flash quiz. Check the details:

Interactivity – add sound, images, Flash movie, feedback, etc. in the quiz to cheer up the participants

Time limit & Randomization – set more strict time control to avoid cheating in a test and add fun in a quiz game

Automatic marking – grade the questions instantly after submittal

Wide sharing – upload the Flash quiz to Websites to share with more people

Having watched the above samples, which one do you like best? Actually according to different needs, you can choose any of the three quiz forms. Quizzes based on paper nearly have no special skill required, as long as you have careful design; plain text quiz is easily made on the quiz creation Websites like Easytestmaker, Quizbox, etc. ProProfs is recommended among these Websites because of its more functions like inserting pictures, grading automatically, etc; in terms of Flash quiz, it is not difficult to make one. Here will show you two ways to make Flash quizzes.

1. Make a Flash quiz with Quiz maker software

Quiz maker software is the most professional tool to create Flash quizzes. Usually it is easy to handle and can support more attractive multimedia elements, various publishing channels and also detailed settings. Take QuizCreator for example, you can also track the quiz results without hassles via e-mail, LMS and its add-on Quiz Management System.

2. Make a Flash quiz with Adobe Flash

You can make a Flash quiz with Adobe Flash quiz template. Adobe Flash MX or higher version including quiz templates allows users to create Flash quiz with 6 interaction question types. Each template has a different graphical look and feel. Click to view the tutorial about how to create Flash quiz with quiz templates and detailed instructions on how to customize the quiz template.

The quiz is widely used in testing and also entertaining in recent years. Make the proper one according to your needs, and it is more beneficial to make a Flash quiz which brings us more wonders!

With the popularity of Flash quiz, more features and functions are added to quiz maker. Time limit is one important property of quiz settings. It enables users to set time for the entire test and also for the individual question, so that the test gets a strict time limitation and a good guarantee of the fairness in the process of taking a quiz.

Users can set time limit for the whole test; thus all the participants must finish the quiz in due time. If it is out of time, quiz takers can’t answer the question any more. Compared with this function, the time limit for each question seems to make the quiz more efficient in time control. People are also able to set different time limit for each question. Users can adopt this function in several situations like the following ones.

1. Avoid cheating. Once the quiz publisher adds proper time limit to each question, the participants will get no extra time to cheat through searching internet or books for answers. Quiz participants would probably just get enough time to take the quiz by themselves, so the fairness can be comparatively well guaranteed.

2. Make strict time-limit questions. Some tests require the strict time limit in parts of the questions such as the part called “Fast Reading” in language test. Thus it is necessary to set the time limit for each question in the quiz. Also because of the powerful time control, time limit can add more fun to quiz game. To save testing time, it is also necessary to set different time limit for the questions according to the level of difficulty.

There are various uses of the quiz with time limit for each question. To make this function well served, users need to pay attention to some details:

1. Set proper time limit. Never set the time too short or too long. If it is too short, the quiz takers may not get enough time to answer the question and feel nervous; if too long, the setting of time limit for each question is meaningless at last. Before making the time limit, users are supposed to set the clear purpose of the quiz, evaluate the questions, and also know more about the basic feature of target participants.

2. Offer time limitation instruction clearly to participants. The quiz with time limit for each question has the strict constraint on time. If the participants overlook or don’t know that, they may not finish the quiz in time, and it can result in a failure in test. Users can use the function called “blank page” to add the time limitation instruction for the quiz.

Quiz makers are easy to find in the market. There are online Webs and also the standalone software can help you to create quizzes, but few can support the time limit for each question well. The following quiz maker software are worth trying: QuizCreator and articulate QuizMaker.