Kahoot Now Displays Questions and Answers on the Same Screen – Finally!
For years teachers and students have wanted to be able to see Kahoot questions and answer choices on the same screen. This week Kahoot finally made that possible! Now when you launch a live Kahoot game for in-person or online play you can choose to enable an option to show questions and answer choices on […]
Factitious 2020 – Can You Spot Fake News Stories?
In yesterday’s episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff I shared some information about an update to a favorite resource of mine, Factitious. Factitious is a game that is designed to help students practice identifying real and fake news stories. The 2020 version of the game features stories about COVID-19. […]
Vortex by ClassTools – Create Your Own Sorting Game
Vortex is the latest game template published by ClassTools. Vortex lets you create an online game in which players have to sort words or phrases into up to four categories. Vortex replaces the Dust Bin sorting game that ClassTools used to offer but ran on Flash. Vortex doesn’t use Flash which means it can be […]
Factitious – A Game That Tests Your Ability to Spot Fake News
Factitious is a game for testing your skill at identifying fake and misleading news stories. The game was developed by the American University Game Lab and the American University’s School of Communication. I learned about the game last month when Larry Ferlazzo featured it and I have since shared it in a couple of professional […]
How to Create a Simple Timeline-based Game
ClassTools.net has many great online game templates for history teachers to use. Play Your Dates Right is one of the templates that I like to use to create a game that is focused on helping students recall the sequence of historical events. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to create a simple timeline-based […]
A Clear Explanation of Gamification
Gamification is one of the trendy words in education right now. In most education conference programs I find at least a couple of workshops or presentations about gamification. You’ve probably seen those too. What is gamification? Common Craft’s latest video explains gamification in clear and concise terms. Gamification is something that I had to experience […]