The Quiz Hub Website:
Ajarn is the Thai word for teacher and so obviously I—Ajarn Sim—am a teacher who enjoys searching
the endless internet highway in a quest to find
learning tools and educational activities and games. The Quiz Hub is one very helpful website. Quiz Hub an online interactive learning center which gives you hundreds of interactive learning quizzes. Because it is interactive the students can either work on the site while you are with them or on their own time.
The sites front page is designed very simply. It offers: Thinking Games and Logical Puzzles, Sample Quizzes, More Fun Things to Do, and finally it offers
membership information and sign up. Everything on this front page is more of a teaser or sampler, as with many sites like this one if you want variety and in-depth information you will be required to pay the membership fee. A perfect example of this is the SAT Vocabulary Quiz which is located under the Sample Quizzes category. My student, who are all high school age and are preparing for their coming SAT, enjoyed this game tremendously because it allows them to try to match words to meanings and it times this activity to give you an idea of how quick you are. My students are very competitive with each other and were having races and tournaments to see just who could match these challenging words the quickest. Sounds great; however, this is where the lacking membership will sink you. The free and accessible quizzes are only over words which begin with A and in actuality there seem to be only about 80 total words and definitions being mixed up and recycled. Needless to say the students learned these words very well so they could defeat their classmates; however, then the learning stopped.
From the samples I have perused it is clear that this site offers teachers a fresh activity for their learners; however, find someone in the school district to pay the membership fee if you want to use it often. After 2 or 3 hours of trying the sample activities the students will find the end of the maze. Over all I believe this is a site worth any high school’s computers favorite menu. Students will have a good time while learning and teachers, I know what you are thinking, and the answer is ‘yes you can print these quizzes and use them as classroom fillers.’ I will especially recommend the grammar quizzes and activities because these are of a high quality. If your school does not have a computer for every one of your students, print these out and let them work on them at their desk and you still have an effective activity.