QuizImage 2.0
QuizImages are interactive objects that teach ideas in a visual
context. These activities help students learn and practice
visual thinking skills, such as reading maps and graphs and finding
visual metaphors in works of art.
QuizImages help learners in two ways:
- Integration of words, pictures and audio. Cognitive
research shows that picture-word combinations such as those in
QuizImages help learners build connections between ideas (Mayer
et al, 1995) and retain information longer than when presented
as pictures or words alone (Haber and Myers, 1982). The latest version of QuizImage (v 2.0) allows you to include audio as an even more effective method for supporting learning with visuals.
- Self-assessment. QuizImages work as
self-tests that let students measure their understanding of content.
The QuizImage 2.0 authoring software is extremely easy to use: instructors
can create a simple activity from an image in less than five minutes. With
a little more time, detailed feedback and questions can be added
to build a richer learning experience. The authoring software
runs in Java and creates an html file that contains the activity. This
html page can be hyperlinked to existing web pages or added as a
topic to the content area of Learn@UW.
