用心教學，好像理所當然 ...

突然很想對那些努力做好優質學與教的老師致敬，用心教學，好像理所當然，但以香港教師工作量之重，雜務之多，要把很多心思放在教學上，談何容易。

Ahaslides seems a promising alternative to Mentimeter

Just checked out Ahasides, which is for creating interactive lessons (similar to Nearpod, Quizizz Lesson, Pear Deck). Its free plan is quite generous, as it allows for 50 participants (Wooclap's free plan admits 15 participants only).  

Each event can inlude 5 quiz questions and 3 poll questions (Wooclap only gives you 2 questions in total). 

Like the other similar apps, you can upload your PPT, and add the activity slides. 

Ahaslides also has a PPT add-in, which when clicked in PPT, will take you to the Ahasides dashboard, and you can open a previously created question set or presentation. Then you can continue with your original PPT presentation. 

Wooclap vs Quizizz lesson

 Just had a go with Wooclap, which on the surface resembles the functionality of Quizizz Lesson, Pear Deck, Nearpod, etc., but is cheaper for subscription. 

But there are many problems with this app. The free plan only allows for 2 questions. Even though the basic paid plan may be one third cheaper than that for Quizizz, overall, it's not worth it. 

How to insert a Reading Passage into a Diagram-labelling Bookwidget task

Bookwidget's Split Tasksheet format does not allow users to put a reading text on one side, and insert another created Bookwidget (in this case, 'Diagram Labelling') into the right. 

This is a workaround that have found out. 

I simply opened the created Diagram Labelling bookwidget (in this case: 'Layers of a Forest'). In the Question box, I inserted the passage itself. (In my workaround, I simply got a screenshot of the passage, and pasted it into the Question box which I switched to RTF). 

A bullet in Workflowy can be linked to another Workflowy page with [[ ]]

 Just tried this function. Should turn out to be a useful function, especially when I'm looking up the acdemic literature, which will involve a lot of cross-referencing. 

https://workflowy.com/learn/internal-external-links/

Wordwall trumps other apps for creating anagram games

 For Creating anagram games, Wordwall is the best: 

- The resulting game won't change your small letters to capital letters, like the other apps do. 

- You can insert a TTS audio to accompany each word. 

- You can also insert a picture to accompany each word. 

- in the Play mode, the letters are large enough. 

- When attempting an anagram, you click the letters in the order that you think is right; this is closest to real life spelling. 

+++++

Problems with other apps: 

- Bookwidgets

    - No built-in anagram format. You have to use the 'Drag words/sentences' function instead. 

    - No TTS. 

    - Letters in resulting game too smal. 

- Educaplay

    - small letters you input will be converted to capital letters; not good for revising for Dictation. 

    - no TTS

- Learningapps.org

    - No Anagram game function.