Three Tools for Building Your Own Online Games That Aren’t Kahoot-like
Earlier today I fielded a question from a reader who was looking for some suggestions for tools he could use to create some online games for his students to play. Specifically, he was looking for some alternatives to the typical suggestions of Kahoot, Quizizz, and Gimkit. There are a lot of options that I could […]
Students Can Create Their Own Video Games With Construct 3
Construct 3 is a video game creation platform that students can use to develop their own games. The games students can create with Construct 3 aren’t simple quiz-based games like many other platforms offer. Instead Construct 3 offers students an opportunity to create games that might remind you of some classic video games like Mario […]
Two Ways to Make Your Own Wordle-style Games
Last week I wrote about Strive Math’s new Custom Wordle game creator. That little tool can be used to create Wordle-style games based on words of any length. Flippity.net also offers a free template for making your own Wordle-style games for students to play online. Both are easy to use and don’t require registration in […]
Five Ways to Create Online Drag-and-Drop Activities
Last week I wrote about TeacherMade’s new drag-and-drop online activity creation tool. It’s a nice tool for turning documents into online sorting and matching activities for your students. Of course, there are other ways to create online drag-and-drop activities for your students to complete. I’ve written about a handful of them over the last couple […]
How to Make Your Own Wordle-style Game
I’ve yet to play Wordle and by the time I do the fad will probably be over. That said, I know a lot of people enjoy the game and are looking for ways to bring it into their classrooms. If that describes you, this blog post is for you. Flippity.net offers more than two dozen […]
Say Something – A Fun and Easy TinyTap Activity
Disclosure: TinyTap is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Last week I wrote about using TinyTap soundboards to create interactive games and lessons. This week we’ll continue with the theme of sound and make a Say Something activity on TinyTap. TinyTap’s Say Something activity type lets you record your voice to accompany anything and everything that […]
Build Talk or Type Educational Games on TinyTap
Disclosure: TinyTap is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com Throughout January I wrote about creating your own educational games with TinyTap’s web-based game creation tool. I’ve covered creating a basic identification game, making your games look good, and making puzzle games. To end the month, I’m going to dive into making a game that doesn’t rely […]
Create an Educational Puzzle Game With TinyTap
Disclosure: TinyTap is currently an advertiser on FreeTech4Teachers.com. Over the last two weeks I covered the basics of creating an educational game with TinyTap and how to make it look good. This week I’m going to start diving into some of the more interesting game types and formats available in TinyTap. The first of those […]
How to Create Your Own Educational Games With TinyTap – Getting Started
Disclosure: This is sponsored content. TinyTap is a great platform that I’ve been sharing with teachers since 2012, a full decade this fall. In that time I’ve seen it evolve from an iPad app for creating simple games to a full suite of tools for creating educational games to play on iPads, on Android devices, […]
TinyTap – Create Your Own Educational Games in Your Browser
TinyTap is a company that is best known for its iPad app that lets teachers create educational games to share with their students. I’ve used it and written about it for almost a decade. Recently, TinyTap made a fantastic update. You can now use TinyTap to create your own educational games in the web browser […]
How to Make a Connecto Game – Great for Review Activities
Connecto is the latest game template published by Flippity. The template lets you use Google Sheets to create a digital version of Connect Four in which students shave to correctly answer a series of questions to connect a line of grid spaces. I wrote about the game and how it’s played last week. Since then […]
A New Flippity Game Template – Connecto!
Flippity recently published a new game template for Google Sheets users. The new template is called Connecto. Connecto is probably best described as a digital version of the classic Connect Four game. Connecto lets you create a game board as large as forty-two cells (7×6) and as small as nine cells (3×3). The game template […]
Create Outdoor Bingo Games
I originally shared this video on my Ed Tech Fitness blog. The reaction there has been good so I thought that I should give it a bigger audience by posting it on Free Technology for Teachers. Outdoor Bingo is exactly what the name implies. Kids are given Bingo boards that have things like leaves, squirrels, […]
How to Create Your Own Online Memory Games
As I do every year, I’m taking this week off from writing new blog posts. This week I’ll be re-running a few of the most popular posts in 2020. Last week I was asked if it’s possible to use the MIT App Inventor to create a matching game. It certainly is. In fact, I have […]
Doozy – Create and Play Fun and Educational Quiz Games
Doozy is a neat service for creating online quiz games that you can share with anyone and they can play without having to register for an account. The quiz games that you create on Doozy can be multiple choice or short answer questions. The games that you make can, and probably should, include pictures as […]
How to Create Vocabulary Games on Educandy
Educandy is a new service for creating simple vocabulary games and multiple choice trivia games. A convenient aspect of the service is that once you’ve created a list of vocabulary words it will automatically be applied to multiple game formats for you. In other words, write one word list and you’ll get three games that […]
7 Places to Create Your Own Educational Games for Students to Play at Home
The Internet is not lacking for websites that offer games that students can play online. Despite that fact, there are still occasions when you can’t find exactly what you or your students need. In those cases you might want to just create your own game instead of conducting more fruitless searches. Here are seven places […]
TinyTap – Create Image Reveal Games and Identification Games
This morning I answered an email from a reader who was looking for a way to create educational games in which students have to correctly answer questions in order to reveal a picture or part of a picture. My suggestion was to try TinyTap. TinyTap is a free iPad app and free Android app that […]
