Five Random Name Pickers to Use in Your Classroom
From creating groups to choosing a line leader to establishing the order of presenters there are plenty of times that a random name picker can be helpful in your classroom. I’ve tried dozens of them over the years. In this new video I highlight my five favorite name pickers, how they work, and what I […]
Three Random Name Pickers
From picking a line leader, to calling on a student during a discussion, to drawing a prize-winner there are plenty of times when we all need an unbiased random name selector. Over the years I’ve tried a lot of random name selector tools. I keep coming back to the following three options. Flippity.net offers a […]
A Random Name and Image Picker
Wheel of Names is a free random name picker website that I learned about from Tony Vincent in one of his Tweets earlier this week. There are plenty of random name pickers available on the web. Wheel of Names is a little different than most because it not only lets you enter names, it lets […]
Try the Random Name Picker on ClassTools
Random Name Picker is a free tool from Russel Tarr at Classtools.net. Random Name Picker lets you input names and spin a virtual wheel to have a name randomly selected from the list. After a name is selected you can remove it from the wheel so that it is not selected again. Random Name Picker is free […]
Google Classroom Now Has a Random Name Selector
Google Classroom has a new random name selector tool available in the Google Classroom Android app. As announced by Google earlier today the random name selector will randomly pick names from your roster and let you keep track of which students have or have not been called upon. To use the random name selector in […]
Three Random Name Selectors
If your students are like mine, at one point or another you’ve asked for volunteers and not had any students raise their hands. In that situation using a random name selection tool is an easy way to choose students to call on. And for those times when all of your students raise their hands for […]
Newspapers, Timers, and Name Pickers
Every month I take a look at how people find Free Technology for Teachers and what they search for when they land on the blog. “Google Newspaper Archive,” “classroom timer,” and “random name picker” were the most frequently searched terms on Free Technology for Teachers during the month of June. The Google News Newspaper archive offers […]
Click to Spin – Best of 2016
As I usually do during this week, I’m taking some time off to relax, ski, and work on some long-term projects for the next year. This week I will be re-publishing the most popular posts of 2016. Random Name Picker is free tool from Russel Tarr at Classtools.net. The Random Name Picker lets you input […]
Name Picker Ninja – A Random Name Picker for Your Classroom
Name Picker Ninja is free tool for quickly choosing names at random. Using Name Picker Ninja is a simple matter of pasting or typing a list of names into the “add names” field in Name Picker Ninja and then clicking “go!” The names in your list will scroll and stop on a randomly selected name. […]
How to Put a Random Name Selector In Your Blog
Whether it is to call on a student to answer a question during a lesson or two choose a line leader for the day, we all have occasions for using a random name selector. The Random Name Picker from Russel Tarr’s Classtools.net is one of those tools that can be used in almost every classroom […]
Handy Web Tools That Solve Three Problems for Every Classroom
Whether we teach seven year old students or seventeen year old students there are some universal problems that we all have to handle in our classrooms. The following three handy tools can help you solve those problems. Staying on Schedule When I have long blocks of time with students I like to schedule short breaks […]
The Three Most Common Searches on Free Technology for Teachers
Every month I take a look at the most popular posts of the month. At the same time I look at the search terms that visitors enter most often on Free Technology for Teachers. This month the three most frequently searched terms were “random name selector,” “kahoot,” and “photos for class.” Below I have assembled […]