Using youtube video to make online quizzes more engaging
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Sunny Qing
The author is a senior expert in eLearning who works at Wondershare E-Learning department. Wondershare E-Learning Software is an industry-leading learning and training software application provider. You could get Quiz Maker and other eLearning tool for your teaching and training at: quiz-creator.com. By Sunny Qing
Published on 10/26/2009
Online videos are good resources to help teachers and trainers make online quizzes and tests engaging and meaningful. Especially on YouTube.com, there is even YouTube Edu and hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube which host many useful course resources. This article will give you some guidance to use YouTube videos to quizzes.
Using youtube video to make online quizzes more engaging
Curtis J. Bonk said in book "The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education": "Shared online video sites such as YouTube and Teacher Tube are places where researchers and other educators can share their ideas and activities and put them up on display for their world." We could see that online videos are good resources to help us make online quizzes and tests engaging and meaningful. Especially on YouTube.com, there is even YouTube Edu and hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube which host many useful course resources.
Then, how can you use YouTube videos for your quizzes?
* Use the YouTube video to illustrate quiz questions powerfully
Generally, video includes more information than words. So, playing a specified YouTube video when appropriate to illustrating quiz questions is an effective way to let quiz-takers understand the question fleetly. Especially, when conducting an online test, videos are quite attractive to make quiz-takers fix attention on these quizzes. The most important is that, you find the proper relevant YouTube video to encourage students to reflect on these questions.
* Use the YouTube video to provide information needed to answer a question
There are hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube, many courses are hosted on specified channels. If the answers to the questions can be finded from one of the YouTube video courses, please get the course video and then use it as feedback or explanations to assigned questions. Usually, students prefer to watch such videos to find the answers and learn knowledge more than plain text as explanation. For most quiz creators, you can't use YouTube video in feedbacks. However, you can use a blank page to integrate with YouTube video. Wondeshare QuizCreator has a blank page feature. You can add the YouTube video on the blank page and set your question feedback option to branch to the blank page.
* Use the YouTube video as a quiz question
For some questions that are difficult to describe with words or some questions are only about movie clips, etc, using YouTube video as the quiz questions are necessary. Integrate the YouTube video and ask students to answer the questions based on the content of the video after viewing the video. Students will tend to do those practice tests or quizzes a little bit more readily.
Integrate videos into quizzes
Videos downloaded from YouTube are usually in FLV format, you can integrate these YouTube videos into quizzes via some quiz software, like QuizCreator and QuizMaker.
With YouTube, the Internet is a television. The Internet is home to programmed instruction as well as spontaneous learning. Actually, besides YouTube video you also can integrate other shared online videos for your quizzes, such as CNN Video, MIT World, Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Discovery Channel Videos, National Geographic Video, Hulu, TeacherTube, Link TV, NomadsLand, and so much more! There are a lot more creative uses for YouTube videos in quizzes, just make your smart online quizzes right now.
Then, how can you use YouTube videos for your quizzes?
* Use the YouTube video to illustrate quiz questions powerfully
Generally, video includes more information than words. So, playing a specified YouTube video when appropriate to illustrating quiz questions is an effective way to let quiz-takers understand the question fleetly. Especially, when conducting an online test, videos are quite attractive to make quiz-takers fix attention on these quizzes. The most important is that, you find the proper relevant YouTube video to encourage students to reflect on these questions.
* Use the YouTube video to provide information needed to answer a question
There are hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube, many courses are hosted on specified channels. If the answers to the questions can be finded from one of the YouTube video courses, please get the course video and then use it as feedback or explanations to assigned questions. Usually, students prefer to watch such videos to find the answers and learn knowledge more than plain text as explanation. For most quiz creators, you can't use YouTube video in feedbacks. However, you can use a blank page to integrate with YouTube video. Wondeshare QuizCreator has a blank page feature. You can add the YouTube video on the blank page and set your question feedback option to branch to the blank page.
* Use the YouTube video as a quiz question
For some questions that are difficult to describe with words or some questions are only about movie clips, etc, using YouTube video as the quiz questions are necessary. Integrate the YouTube video and ask students to answer the questions based on the content of the video after viewing the video. Students will tend to do those practice tests or quizzes a little bit more readily.
Integrate videos into quizzes
Videos downloaded from YouTube are usually in FLV format, you can integrate these YouTube videos into quizzes via some quiz software, like QuizCreator and QuizMaker.
With YouTube, the Internet is a television. The Internet is home to programmed instruction as well as spontaneous learning. Actually, besides YouTube video you also can integrate other shared online videos for your quizzes, such as CNN Video, MIT World, Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Discovery Channel Videos, National Geographic Video, Hulu, TeacherTube, Link TV, NomadsLand, and so much more! There are a lot more creative uses for YouTube videos in quizzes, just make your smart online quizzes right now.