How to Create Your Own Online Board Game
Those of you who have followed my blog for a while probably know that Flippity is one of my go-to recommendations for anyone looking to make games, flashcards, and timelines with Google Sheets. Recently, Flippity introduced a new template for making your own online board game through Google Sheets. With Flippity’s new board game template […]
How to Use Kahoot in Google Classroom
This is the time of year when many of us are looking for fun ways to conduct end-of-year review sessions with our students. Playing Kahoot quiz games is one of the most popular means of doing that. Kahoot games are fun to play in a classroom and you can also use them for remote learning […]
Twelve Tools for Creating End-of-Year Review Activities
The sun is shining and I had my first flip-flops sighting of the year this morning. That means the end of the school year can’t be too far away. This is a time when many of us will be looking to make end-of-the-year review activities to do with our students and activities students can do […]
Kahoot Adds a Smart Practice Mode
Kahoot has added a new way for students to use the free Kahoot iOS and Android apps. The new way to use the apps is to play games in what Kahoot is calling Smart Practice mode. Kahoot’s new Smart Practice mode gives students an opportunity to focus on the questions that they answered incorrectly during […]
Twelve Tools for Building End-of-year Review Activities (That Aren’t Kahoot Games)
The end of the school year is quickly approaching. At this time of the year I start to get a lot of requests for suggestions for tools to create review activities. Here are twelve good options for creating review activities. Video-based review activities: Vizia is a free tool for creating video-based quizzes. On Vizia you an […]
Three Things I Like About Microsoft Forms
I’ve been a devoted user of Google Docs, Forms, and all things G Suite for more than a decade. I’ve helped thousands of teachers get started with Google Forms. I tell you all that as a way of saying that it takes a lot for me to be happy with an alternative product. But that’s […]
Six Tools for Creating Classroom Quiz Games – A Comparison Chart
Twice in the last week I have given presentations about tools for creating fun formative assessment activities. The most popular part of that presentation is when we play a couple of quiz games in Kahoot and Socrative. Those are probably the best known quiz game platforms. They are not the only quiz game platforms. There […]
How to Create & Run Review Games on Triventy
Triventy is a free quiz game platform that I wrote about at the end of December. The concept behind Triventy will feel familiar to anyone who has tried Kahoot or Quizizz. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to create and run review activities through Triventy. Applications for Education One of the best features of […]