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MATERIAL GENERATORS

DESKTOP PUBLISHING SOFTWARE

WEB DESIGN SOFTWARE

INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD ACTIVITY SOFTWARE

TESTS GENERATORS AND RUBRIC GENERATORS

WORKSHEET AND PUZZLE GENERATORS

PDF MAKERS

Allows teachers and students to design and elaborate printed products giving them a complete control over this material.

Classroom applications

Tips to make it effective

Practice in grammar, spelling and communication

Methods of reporting research findings

Opportunities for creative works

Use

*different fonts for title and text

*white space well

*appropriate sizes for type

*visual cues

*a limited number of fonts

Match text and background colors

Create and use graphics carefully

Avoid

*common text format errors

*common text break errors

*overuse of type styles

authoring programs that allow people to create new web pages for both instructional and productivity applications.

Common uses

Classroom news, activities and resources

Web-based lessons

Student-produced work

screens that are connected to a computer and digital projector and allow information projected to be manipulated with special pens or one’s hands.

They help teachers with producing tests and other kinds of assessments.

Online rubric generators

Test generators

The teacher follows a set of prompts, and the system creates a rubric that can be printed out or referred to online.

Used to create and enter questions, then they create the test.

Advantages

Test creation and revision procedures

Random generation of questions

Selection of questions based on criteria

Answer keys

Test item banks

They help teachers produce exercises for practice rather than test items. Create crosswords, word search puzzles, and similar game-like activities

Common uses

Practice for lower level skills, such as math facts

Cloze exercise

Exercises to review words and definitions

Permits the viewing and sending of documents as images, displays the elements of the original document without requiring access to the software used to create it.