Week 4 - Juice Up the Generator

I love how easy technology makes my life sometimes, and I feel particularly grateful when I use material generating software, especially test-generator software. The Glencoe ExamView software I use is especially great because it allows me to make tests using existing banks of questions, which I can add to, change, or delete in order to tailor the tests to  meet my students' needs. Even when I want to write my own questions, the generator allows me to format them so easily, while simultaneously creating keys, and best of all, I can print multiple versions of each test to reduce the all-too-common incidence of cheating. I also love puzzle generators, both by Glencoe and Holt, which allow me to use vocabulary terms relevant to my subject to create puzzles for my students which enable them to learn/reinforce their learning while adding some levity to the class by way of giving out a puzzle.