Here are some recent additions to The Best Online Personality, Career, Political & Just Plain Fun Quizzes:
The Los Angeles Times uses technology from the company Visual DNA to have users take a News Match Quiz. It’s really pretty neat. You’re asked some simple questions and shown a variety of images you use to answer — What is your favorite kind of treat? What would spark a conversation with you?
Then, at the end, you’re given a report on your personality and a series of newspaper articles the program thinks you’d be interested in.
It’s useful for English Language Learners on a number of levels. I’ve seen the Visual DNA technology used in other sites, and have liked it, they those other sites have usually been dating-related or on other sites not appropriate for the classroom.
A somewhat similar quiz sit– though not nearly as good as Visual DNA’s application — is called ID Solution. It identifies your “cultural taste.” One thing I do like about it is that some the questions ask your preferences of various texts instead of images.
December 5, 2009 at 11:22 pm
well…. that was fun, eerily accurate, and I think middle schoolers would love it. I would us it to spark some discussion in a media/consumer unit and see where it could have a variety of uses in other areas.