{"id":100,"date":"2020-10-24T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/onlineassessmentquilt\/?p=100"},"modified":"2020-11-05T18:43:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:43:32","slug":"quick-tip-replacing-quizzes-with-crossword-puzzles-alison-taplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/2020\/10\/24\/quick-tip-replacing-quizzes-with-crossword-puzzles-alison-taplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick tip: Replacing quizzes with crossword puzzles (Alison Taplay)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Quick tip<\/strong>: looking for an alternative to quizzes? Try a crossword puzzle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of giving students a quiz, Alison Taplay (Education Assistant and Community Support Certificate Program) uses an online crossword puzzle generator to create an alternative, engaging and interactive way for students to learn essential elements related to a topic. Students can interact online and help each other complete the puzzle. A crossword puzzle can be used as formative or summative assessment, and completed individually or in small groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find crossword puzzle generators online: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.education.com\/worksheet-generator\/reading\/crossword-puzzle\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_PLJvouP7AIVciCtBh0j9AFPEAAYASAAEgLKafD_BwE\">Education.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com\/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp\">Discovery Puzzle Maker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick tip: looking for an alternative to quizzes? Try a crossword puzzle Instead of giving students a quiz, Alison Taplay (Education Assistant and Community Support Certificate Program) uses an online crossword puzzle generator to create an alternative, engaging and interactive&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/2020\/10\/24\/quick-tip-replacing-quizzes-with-crossword-puzzles-alison-taplay\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/tipsfromthetrenches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}