Saturday, February 12, 2011
Thursday's One to One Training for Cactus Canyon
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Website of the Week # 9 - What 2 Learn (Make Your Own Educational Games)
Website Link: http://www.what2learn.com/
Basics: This is a site where you can create games for just about anything you are learning. They have 12 games templates to choose from and you just create 8 questions. Then you have a game that you can embed or link. There are games that others have created as well. You do have to sign-in to create games...and it's free.
Examples:
Zombie Boxing
Play this game on the what2learn site
Link to Tanks Game
Link to Skiing Game
Link to Penguins in Peril
Test Kitchen:
I have only used this a couple of times in my class but, it was a huge success. Each game took me about 10 minutes to create. The students were learning about 40 prefixes and they used the games to practice. With the first set of prefixes they studied flashcards from brainflips.com and then played the games. When they felt ready they took a quiz in google forms. After that they moved on to another set of prefixes which they studied and then they created their own game through What 2 Learn. The kids absolutely loved it. They were engaged the whole time and it got them a lot of repetition with their vocab words in a relatively short amount of time. Plus, how can you go wrong with Zombie Boxing?
Although I did not try it, there is a feature where you can create accounts for students and it's free. Then you assign them games and keep track of the results of what they are doing and they will give you as many free accounts for students as you need.
Classroom Applications:
Great for...
...all subject areas
...vocabulary words
...comprehension checks
...math facts
...fill-in the blank questions
...closure
...quick checks
...review
Technical note: To get the embed code or the link when you finish creating the game, you then play your game, and when you get to the play mode your embed code and link will be on the right hand side.
Also, they give you a number code to keep to know where your game is in the future.
Basics: This is a site where you can create games for just about anything you are learning. They have 12 games templates to choose from and you just create 8 questions. Then you have a game that you can embed or link. There are games that others have created as well. You do have to sign-in to create games...and it's free.
Examples:
Zombie Boxing
Play this game on the what2learn site
Link to Tanks Game
Link to Skiing Game
Link to Penguins in Peril
Test Kitchen:
I have only used this a couple of times in my class but, it was a huge success. Each game took me about 10 minutes to create. The students were learning about 40 prefixes and they used the games to practice. With the first set of prefixes they studied flashcards from brainflips.com and then played the games. When they felt ready they took a quiz in google forms. After that they moved on to another set of prefixes which they studied and then they created their own game through What 2 Learn. The kids absolutely loved it. They were engaged the whole time and it got them a lot of repetition with their vocab words in a relatively short amount of time. Plus, how can you go wrong with Zombie Boxing?
Although I did not try it, there is a feature where you can create accounts for students and it's free. Then you assign them games and keep track of the results of what they are doing and they will give you as many free accounts for students as you need.
Classroom Applications:
Great for...
...all subject areas
...vocabulary words
...comprehension checks
...math facts
...fill-in the blank questions
...closure
...quick checks
...review
Technical note: To get the embed code or the link when you finish creating the game, you then play your game, and when you get to the play mode your embed code and link will be on the right hand side.
Also, they give you a number code to keep to know where your game is in the future.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Website of the Week # 8 - Simple Cube
Simple Cube Site Link
Basics: On this website you can create a cube that can then be linked or embedded in another webpage.
Examples:
Attention Grabbers
RAFTS
Why Use Blogs?
Test Kitchen: I have been using this site in my class for a few months now. It is a cool gadget that helps engage students. I have never had any problems with it. I have not had students make their own yet but, I suppose that it would be really easy to have the students make their own as well. You don't need to log in to create one but, you can log in and save yours if you want to. The site is sponsored by the Australian Arts Association but, they don't seem to mind if you use it for your class. The is one weird thing that it does sometimes when you use long sentences it puts part of the word on one line and the rest on the other line. Beggars can't be choosers though.
Classroom Applications:
Basics: On this website you can create a cube that can then be linked or embedded in another webpage.
Examples:
Attention Grabbers
RAFTS
Why Use Blogs?
Test Kitchen: I have been using this site in my class for a few months now. It is a cool gadget that helps engage students. I have never had any problems with it. I have not had students make their own yet but, I suppose that it would be really easy to have the students make their own as well. You don't need to log in to create one but, you can log in and save yours if you want to. The site is sponsored by the Australian Arts Association but, they don't seem to mind if you use it for your class. The is one weird thing that it does sometimes when you use long sentences it puts part of the word on one line and the rest on the other line. Beggars can't be choosers though.
Classroom Applications:
- Display objectives for the day and announcements.
- Definitions of words.
- Choose between different activities.
- Show examples.
- Play a game.
- Use it as dice.
- Choose a topic.
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