Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Have students create digital posters with tackk.com

https://tackk.com/educationrealexamples


Classroom application

  • Use it as the 'showcase' portion of a student's e-portfolio.
  • Create mini-lessons for students.
  • Create a biography page for a historical or significant individual.
  • Students create a 'how-to' document such as how to make or do something.
  • English classes can create a business webpage selling an idea. Could be combined with a presentation.
  • Students create an individual page to introduce themselves to the others in the class.
  • Groups could use it to research an idea by sharing a page.
  • A reading text could be combined with audio and pictures to make it more understandable (scaffolding).



Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Thursday, November 5, 2015

In HONOR OF STAR WARS

http://www.classtools.net/movietext/

Another earth-shattering template from ClassTools.net!

This new generator scrolls your text into the infinity of space!

Ideas for using it in the classroom:

  • Provide students with an initial reading at the start / end of a lesson in an engaging way
  • Display a class / group list at the end of a lesson in the form of 'movie credits'
  • Give initial instructions as a starter or plenary exercise
  • Provide prompts for creative writing
  • Provide a list of questions/keywords, and award points for students who answer/define each one as it appears.



Friday, October 30, 2015

Quizalize - A Fun Quiz Platform

Quizalize - A Fun Quiz Platform

Quizalize is a newer quiz game platform that reminds me of Kahoot. Like Kahoot, students play your quiz games on their laptops or tablets by going to the Quizalize website then entering their names and a class code. Students are awarded points for correctly answering questions quickly. Students are given feedback instantly on every quiz question that they answer. A total score is presented to students at the end of every quiz.

Creating quizzes on Quizalize is a simple process. To get started just name your quiz and tag it with a subject label. As you write each quiz question you can include a picture and up to four answer choices. You can specify a time limit of 5 to 120 seconds for each question.

Quizalize offers a marketplace in which you can find quizzes created by other users. Some of the quizzes are free and others are sold for a dollar or two. To be clear, creating and playing your own quizzes is completely free.

An overview of Quizalize is provided in the video embedded below.

https://www.quizalize.com/

Free Technology for Teachers by Richard Byrne