Title :
Using the Multi-Mouse Quiz System for Quiz Making Activities in an Elementary School
Author :
Zhou, Juan ; Mori, Mikihiko ; Kita, Hajime
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
Multi-Mouse Quiz System is an application set to treat quizzes in a classroom or other learning opportunities. It consists of Multi-Mouse Quiz (MMQ) and MMQ Editor. The MMQ is an application of Single Display Groupware(SDG) which enables multiple users to answer quizzes by connecting several mice to an ordinary PC. The MMQ Editor is an PC application designed to edit quizzes for MMQ. In this paper, we describ an activity of 6 grade children in an elementary school that asked them to make quizzes with MMQ Editor and then evaluate the quizzes mutually using MMQ. The results of the activity showed that with the combination of using MMQ Editor and MMQ, children were engaged the activities, the operation of MMQ Editor for children was easily-handled, most of the children could learnt the basic operation of the MMQ Editor.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; groupware; 6 grade children; MMQ Editor; PC application; SDG; elementary school; multimouse quiz system; quiz answering; quiz making activity; single display groupware; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computers; Educational institutions; Interviews; Mice; Face-to-face collaborative learning; create quiz questions; quiz;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAIAAI), 2012 IIAI International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2719-0
DOI :
10.1109/IIAI-AAI.2012.27
