ConnSENSE-Review: ClozePro

Link: ConnSENSEReviewClozePro.

I have yet to see someone watch a demonstration of Cloze Pro for the first time who doesn’t say the same thing, “WOW!” Cloze Pro is another excellent program brought to us by the folks at Crick Software. It is a program that enables you to create cloze activities used so frequently in schools today. I must admit that when I first saw this software demonstrated, I too thought it must be magic.  Simply type in the text, select and set the remove button from the tool bar and PRESTO! you have a fill-in-the-blank-multiple-choice activity.  It’s that easy; it’s that fast. The text that you just typed remains in the upper portion of the screen, minus the words you have removed that have been replaced with a fill-in line.  The words that have been removed now conveniently appear in a grid of cells located at the bottom section of the screen. By clicking on the cell, the word contained in it is placed back into the selected fill-in space.  For those of you who are familiar with Clicker 5, Crick’s talking word processing and grid writing program, you will recognize the format.