Kahoot has come out with several new additions to their website in the past year including Ghost mode and Team mode. The most recent addition that they're thinking of adding is called "Jumble". Instead of student selecting one answer under multiple choice, student must arrange the answers in the correct order. This promotes students to know the answer and focus on the question rather than clicking an answer to be quick.
Currently it's in a prototype stage but Kahoot has created several sample Jumbles for you to try yourself or with your class. Click below to try it out!
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Simply stated, I love Canva. I use it both personally and professionally and it makes snazzy looking end products. I've used Canva to design birthday invitations, bachelorette party invitations, banners for websites, flyers, endless things for School, etc. The list is endless for what you can do with this site! The best part? It's collaborative! You can invite someone to edit your Canva document with you. Co-hosting something? You can both design at the same time. Doing a project with your students? Have them create something in Canva and both have the ability to edit!
Canva has TONS of templates to make life easier for us. You can search images, backgrounds, and elements on Canva's site or you can upload your own. (I usually do a little of both) You can change the color, font, size, and even change the transparency. When you're done, you can download your publication as a .jpg, .png, or a PDF. You can also share your design to Facebook or Twitter or just as a link directly to Canva. Click on the Canva picture to go directly to their site!
Here is a quick tutorial video from Canva that should help you get started!
This website has tons of fun and engaging activities you can do with your students! Whether you're giving your students options for projects or you're needing a Random Name Generator, this site has choices for you to choose from! I remember when I was doing a "fakebook" with my U.S. History students several years ago and I had to buy it. This one is FREE and easy to use!
Check that and the other fun activities out on the website! I cannot express how much I love Wizer. I think it's the best thing that's happened in regards to formative assessment in years! I know we have Google Classroom and Moodle and Canvas, yadda yadda yadda. But this site works with all of those. You can link your assessment or embed it. And, if you have Google Classroom, you can also send your Wizer worksheet directly to your classroom. Here's Wizer's YouTube channel for tutorial videos. How it works: Go to https://app.wizer.me and click on "Create New Worksheet" then select your template. There are tons to choose from and they're all fun. You can even adjust the color scheme, font, etc once you've selected your template. They're all on the right hand side of your worksheet. Once you've selected what you want your worksheet to look like, then you can begin to incorporate your assessments. They're all self explanatory for the most part. They've done some updates to some of the assessment options, so I've linked those here. One of my favorite question/assessment options is "Fill in on Image" because you can convert any PDF or Word document you have to a .jpg and have your students fill in the answers on Wizer AND IT GRADES IT FOR YOU! How amazing is that? Talk about getting hours back of your life! WooHoo! Two other ones that I'm excited about are "Draw" and "Sort". Draw is fantastic for Math or Science especially because you can have kids work out problems, draw what they're thinking, etc. You can have something drawn that they add to or have a blank canvas with instructions. Sort is just what it sounds like: putting things into categories. This is great when kids are sorting things like reasons that the North vs. South went to war or acids vs. bases in Science. When you get all of your questions put onto your Wizer worksheet, you're ready to assign it to your students. You'll type the class and then it gives you options for embedding it, sending it as a link, pushing it to Google Classroom, etc. Look at the tutorial videos I linked earlier in this post for more help. After you do that, you'll click on "Answers" to view your students' responses and you can then change anything from "incorrect" to "correct" just by changing the number. You can "like" certain answers and you can also give feedback! To share your Worksheet with other teachers, click "Share with Teachers" and choose the option best for you. You can also put your worksheet in folders and then share those folders with fellow teachers. Here is a link that explains the folder option and gives suggestions on how you can use it. You can also search other teachers' worksheets by going to the Gallery and filtering by age and subject. Try Wizer out and let me know what you think! |
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