Webtools for the EFL

classroom

ProProfs

PIXTON

ZooBurst

ProProfs

Quiz Maker

Brief Description

ProProfs is a free web tool that you can use to create online quizzes and tests.

You can make an online quiz using existing templates or create your own from

scratch.

Advantages

❏ Very user friendly

❏ Clear instructions

❏ You can constantly edit the content

❏ You can grade results

❏ You can also add videos, pictures, documents and

PowerPoints to Questions

❏ You can track who took the quiz

Disadvantages

❏ You cannot upload photos in jpeg format

❏ You need an e-mail account to save your quiz

❏ There is only one fixed font

Possible Classroom Ideas

❏ Treasure Hunt: in this activity you ask Ss to read a passage

in search of a particular concept, idea, or fact. Create up to 5

questions that focus on one passage. Using ProProfs Quiz

Maker, use the “Fill in the Blank” question type, then create

your list of possible answers.

❏ Teachers can make quizzes to evaluate Ss.

❏ Teams scores competition: Ss can create their own quizzes

to learn the material and evaluate their classmates as well.

Example

Link to the quiz: http://goo.gl/YNHJdR

Links to Other Sources

❏ Tutorial on scored quizzes http://y2u.be/6oBmV4bG9VU

❏ How to configure quiz settings http://youtu.be/qO6lrd7Qp9Y

❏ How to share your quiz http://youtu.be/9uFpjKCS-PE

❏ How to analyze results http://youtu.be/V5X-EX6SV7o

PIXTON

Creating comics online

http://www.pixton.com/

Pixton is a web tool that allows you to create fun, original

comics online

Creating an account - Pixton for Schools

Creating an account - Pixton for Fun

Start creating!

Recommendation...

Start with beginner mode,

select characters & setting,

and then go to advanced

mode.

Advantages

● Great variety of backgrounds,

facial expressions, & body

postures

● Customization

● Boosts imagination

● Fun & original

Disadvantages

● Internet connection needed

● Sign-up required

● No download option (only for

PRO version)

● Suitable for teens & adults only

Classroom ideas

● Autobiography (students take you to different scenes of

their lives while narrating them)

● Genre transfer of literary texts (students transform a novel,

a short story, a play, or a poem into a comic)

● Comic jigsaw (students put the panels in the correct order)

● Fill in (students fill in the empty speech bubbles of a comic)

For example...Genre transfer of literary texts

“The Way Up To Heaven” by Roald Dahl -

http://goo.gl/RBTeoy

Other resources

Slideshare presentation (in Spanish) http://goo.gl/Osy7Rf

YouTube Tutorial http://goo.gl/3CHI0K

Pixton as classroom tool http://goo.gl/cblkUy

Teachers using Pixton http://goo.gl/DdZ4aT

ZooBurstDigital Story telling to create your own 3D

book.

http://www.zooburst.com/

Advantages

❏Many explanations

❏ Virtual Classroom

❏Make your book private

or public.

❏ Allows comments

Disadvantages

❏Upgrade Features not free

❏Difficult to use

❏Many options and movements

Classroom idea

First, divide your class in groups of 2 or 3

members. Let them make up a story.

Then, they will represent it in the digital story

telling. They practise specific vocabulary, the

use of Present or Past simple to narrate the

story.

Finally, they can share it!

Other Resources

PDF Manual http://goo.gl/aWDWwm

The story http://goo.gl/UBXZxn

Youtube Tutorialhttp://goo.gl/Tyy4Qx

A presentation by

Lucía Poce,

Sofía Redondo

& Florencia Valdés