The game machine W2L Info Published on December 1st, 2013 | by What2Learn Are you looking to make your own study game? Formative - A Possible Replacement for Infuse Learning There is certainly not a shortage of online tools for distributing quizzes to students and watching their responses in realtime. Formative is the latest online quiz and feedback service that I have tested. Formative provides you with a place to create online classrooms. Your students join your classroom by entering the assigned class code after registering on the Formative website. Once your classroom is established you can begin distributing assignments to students. Assignments can be as simple as one question exit tickets like "what did you learn today?"
The Best Quiz and Game Show Apps for Classrooms After dozens of hours testing quizzing tools, we recommend Quizlet and Quizizz for students and teachers. While quizzes might not be the most inventive way to learn, they're still useful for memorizing and recalling facts, quickly assessing knowledge, or getting quick info at the end of a lecture or presentation. Because of this utility, you'll find tons of different apps, websites, and games out there for quickly creating and delivering everything from quizzes to flash cards to polls to exit tickets. Some lean more into play and game shows while others focus on formative assessment and others aim to amp up presentations.
Create A Quiz Creating a New Quiz Is Easy Okay, Get Started! (You may be interested in our tips for getting your quiz to the front page) First, tell us which kind of quiz you are creating. There are three kinds: Login 4 Ways Technology Can Help Empower Teachers And Students All too often, technology is treated as a silver bullet for perceived problems in education. This sometimes leads to knee-jerk investments, using scarce resources to invest in software or hardware without a clear notion of how either might actually empower learning. Instead of having more technology as a goal, we should have more human interaction, personalization, access, and content mastery as the goals, and then think about what tools can get us there. The 18th century Prussians were one of the first societies to think about truly public education—making (relatively) high-quality education available, for free, to most anyone.
10 Free Resources for Flipping Your Classroom Thanks to the folks over at Khan Academy, alternative modes of delivering classroom instruction are all the rage. We’ve got face to face models, labs, rotations, online-only, self-blend, and of course, flipped. While there are numerous ways to implement a flipped classroom, the basic components include some form of prerecorded lectures that are then followed by in-class work. Flipped classrooms are heralded for many reasons. For one thing, students can learn at their own pace when they’re watching lectures at home. Viewing recorded lessons allows students to rewind and watch content again, fast forward through previously learned material, and pause and reflect on new material.
Updated Comparison of Backchannel & Informal Assessment Tools Last winter I published a series of charts in which I compared popular ed tech tools for things like blogging, informal assessment, and video production. As is to be expected in the tech world, some of the tools in those charts have changed. Therefore, I'm now going through each chart and updating it. Yesterday, I published an update to my blogging platforms comparison chart. Today, I updated my chart comparing tools for backchannels and informal assessment.
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3 Tips To Caffeinate Teacher and Student Presentations Presentation 3 Tips To Caffeinate Teacher and Student Presentations An award-winning teacher and author shares her secrets for transforming slide shows into interactive learning experiences. In a seminar I attended, media analyst Tad Simons once estimated that 30 million PowerPoint presentations are given every day. There is More to iPads in the Classroom Than Apps In a previous post, Evaluating Apps with Transformative Use of the iPad in Mind, I describe my ambivalence about teacher asking my for the “perfect” app to teach this or that. I have teachers ask me frequently about app recommendations for different subject areas.“What app could I use to teach subtraction?”“What app would you recommend for my students to practice writing?”“I want to use iPads in my Science class.
YouCanBook.Me -Streamline Meeting Scheduling YouCanBook.Me is a meeting scheduling tool that integrates with your Google Calendar. YouCanBook.Me allows people to book fixed blocks of time in your calendar. You identify the times in your calendar that you are available to meet. Then when someone needs to schedule a meeting with you, you send him or her a link to your booking calendar. Visitors to your calendar click a block and enter their email addresses to reserve a block of your time. When a block of time is reserved you receive an email alert and the other person receives a confirmation email.
Powerpoint Game Template – 17+ Free PPT, PPTX, POTX Documents Download! Interactive powerpoint games can be very useful as educational tools in classes. It also has other professional uses beyond the classroom scenario. Free powerpoint game templates for teachers are available for download online, and aid teachers to design their own games, which eventually form simple, but fun learning tools for class. Besides the jeopardy game, others such as fling the teacher, learn your vocabulary and other cool game templates can be used by teachers in a classroom. Game show hosting on television is also a much-emulated game in real life, particularly in classroom situations when building up trivia and knowledge banks. Premium templates are available for games such as Deal or No Deal, Pyramid, Family Feud and the ever-popular Who Wants to Be a Millionare.
About QuizSlides QuizSlides.com is an innovative web-based platform for multiple-choice testing that was developed in collaboration with London South Bank University in the United Kingdom. Here is a short video that explains how our platform works, and its potential uses within education: To learn more about the QuizSlides platform, see our Features page. To see what people are saying about QuizSlides, see our Buzz page.