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Mackfam
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Posted: April 26 2011 at 6:26pm | IP Logged Quote Mackfam
Does anyone here have a paid subscription to Quia (short for Quintessential Instructional Archive)?

I see how useful this would be for a classroom teacher in terms of organizing activites/quizzes/assignments for classes, but I am interested in the amazing shared activities on the site.

In building my high school biology course, I came across a link to some of the activities offered at Quia - they're interactive (meaning the student interacts with the game/activity/lesson right on the computer and the computer calculates a score or keeps up with correct answers, etc), and some of them are really quite intriguing!! There seems to be something for every age/grade/ability covering an AMAZING VARIETY AND BREADTH of subjects....to include AP science courses. It's not a scanty collection by any stretch of the imagination!

BUT...the subscription cost is $49/year per individual instructor. I can see that there are a plethora of things I could use from this site for all my children....but I wonder if I can't just find an adequate amount online for free (???) without subscribing to this site, as nice as it seems. I probably wouldn't be using the class/quiz feature, but it is available. I already have a lengthy (and really amazing) collection of links to both resources and interactive sites for my Biology course.

I subscribed to the 30 day trial, but I'm not sure I could get a sense of how much I'd actually use this site in just 30 days.

So...does anyone subscribe to this site? Find it worthwhile???? I'd appreciate any feedback!

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Posted: April 26 2011 at 11:06pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
I used to belong to Quia way back when...it was all free at one time. I really liked it then though it was fairly basic. Didn't have nearly all that you describe - definitely no AP high school level at that time. At the time it went to paid subscription, I didn't feel I used it enough to justify the cost so didn't continue. I haven't looked at it in years. Hmmm....

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Posted: April 28 2011 at 12:06am | IP Logged Quote Kristie 4
Have you tried Quizlet? It is free (we do our Henle vocab on there).

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