TeacherTECH Tools Series: Create Your Own Online Content with Quia, Thursday, December 10, 2009

Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Community College and Continuing Education Educators are invited to attend our upcoming TeacherTECH workshop.  The workshop will be focused on learning to use Quia to create activities, games and surveys based on your own lesson plans. 

Thursday, December 10, 2009              5:00pm - 7:00pm

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Training Room 279

University of California, San Diego

Workshop Overview

Quia is a web-based tool for educators that allows you to create activities, games, assessments, study materials, and surveys for any classroom setting based on your own lesson plans. Students can be given a unique login, so results and usage of Quia can be recorded and displayed in reports. Quia also houses shared activities on a variety of content areas. Don’t have time to make your own game or test prep? Look it up in the shared activities section.

Choose a subject area that interests you, and then browse through thousands of learning activities. All of the games and quizzes have been created by educators just like you using Quia's tools and templates! Topics in the shared activities section include the arts, sciences, languages, history, mathematics, reading, writing, music and much more!

What Do Educators Say About Quia?

“I recently found out about Quia and I love it. I teach third grade and since this is a major standardized testing year, the students will be much more prepared after using Quia. What a wonderful resource!”
- Ron Crouse, third grade teacher, Leesburg, Virginia

"My students' reactions have been positive," said Pettigrew. "The strength of Quia is in its ability to correlate with your curriculum in fun, interactive ways.                                                                                     - Marty Pettigrew, middle school teacher, Covington, Tennessee

"The strengths of Quia for me as a classroom teacher are many," he explained. "Quia is an easy-to-use way of preparing educational activities that are specifically related to my area of teaching and specific to the textbooks that I use. I can create an excellent educational game or quiz activity in only a few minutes."
- Brad Bowerman, high school teacher, Jermyn, Pennsylvania

Education World™ calls Quia the “Quintessential Teacher's Helper”.

"Teachers appreciate the fact that they can create their own educational activities based directly on their lesson plans and that students can use them anytime -- from school, home, or anywhere they have Internet access. One of the site's best features is its quiz sessions. Teachers may create and administer online quizzes and track their students' test scores. Detailed statistical results of student performance allow educators to discover trends that would be difficult to see in a hand-graded exam. “                                                                        -Cara Bafile, Education World

About Quia
Software engineer Paul Mishkin has created a web site for educators called Quia (short for the Quintessential Instructional Archive). Hundreds of thousands of teachers and students have used this valuable online tool to create interactive quizzes and games using their own content.

"It's always been clear to me that the Internet would be a tremendous resource for educators," Mishkin, of Sunnyvale, California, explained to Education World. "What I wanted to do was add some organization to it, and build a community where teachers and students could create and share ideas without needing to know HTML, Java, or anything technical."

In this workshop, participants will learn how to:

• Set up a Quia profile
• Create activities, quizzes, and surveys
• Set up a class
• Explore shared activities

Participants will walk away from this session with online materials to use in the classroom immediately.

Note: Quia is a reasonably priced ($49/year) subscription-based web tool. A free 30-day trial offer is available. Use of shared activities is free.

Please join us for an exciting and informative hands-on workshop presented by Kelly Smith, The Nativity School.

Registration is free. Space is limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.