Kahoot!: Bring Games to Your Classroom

Kahoot! is a free game-based tool that can be used in classroom. It gives a refreshing way for classroom activities which includes quizzes, discussion and survey. Kahoot! is great for collaboration since it can be played in a group setting. In additional to its free service, students can join a Kahoot! activity from any devices as long as it is connected to the internet and use a pin of game that Kahoot! provides to start the game. Teachers who wants to create a Kahoot! activity can go to getkahoot.com and students can join a Kahoot! competition by visiting kahoot.it.Take a look at this video below on how to use Kahoot!

 

What does it do?

Quiz

Through quiz, teachers can ask questions and add images to it. It can be used to introduce a new topic to the classroom and have students take the quiz to review their understanding of the topic. The quiz will raise students' competitiveness, as it will show the class the score of each players.

Discussion

Discussion can be use to initiate a debate or class discussion. Teachers can come up with a question about the topic and embedded a video. In the later stage, teachers can put up a question and have students to choose the answer based on their stance to the topic. 

 

Jumble

Jumble is a brand new game from Kahoot! It allows teachers to create a set of questions and have the students arranged the answers accordingly.

 

Survey 

 Have students choose their preferences in a fun way.

What are the benefits for your classroom?

Collaborating: Kahoot! is best played using a shared screen such as projector or interactive whiteboard. It liven up the classroom group activities as students can directly answer questions, earn points, and get feedback instantly.

Engaging: Kahoot! allows students to be involved in a game where its activity has suspenseful music and a quick pace. Such activity stimulates and entertains students keeping them engaged in a topic. The way Kahoot! presents ranking after each activity will make students feel challenged and encouraged them to put more effort to their answers.

A new way of assessment: Kahoot! can be an alternative way of gathering a formative assessment or even to review lesson content with your classroom. The real time results of the game and also be downloaded for further use.

Easy to use: To create an activity in Kahoot! it only took users a simple set up process to easily set up an activity.

What are the limitations?

Styles and Formatting: Kahoot! does not allow users to mofidy the fonts or colours. It only offers true or false and multiple choice options.

 Tips

• The games in Kahoot! can be display on a shared screen such as projector or interactive whiteboards.
• You can also use Kahoot! during a screensharing activity, such as Google Hangouts.
•  Students do not need to have Kahoot! account to join the activity.
  

 

 

Triptico: Creating Engaging Interactive Learning

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Triptico is a tool that provides bunch number of options to create an engaging interactive activities. It can be access through tripticoplus.com.  Teachers will benefit abundantly from this tool since it provides several activities which are free and help bringing creativity to  classroom as well as engaging students.

 

What does it do?




There are several interactive tabs that you can choose to bring new experiences of learning to your classroom. As you can see there are five different categories of selection:

quizzes, selectors, timers, tools and legacy resources. Each section of quizzes, selectors, timers, and tools has interactive apps that you can use and adapt to your class. Take a look at this video below for instruction on how to create triptico account and how one of its feature Find Ten works.

 

What are the benefits for your classroom?

Simple: Triptico is easy to use, it requires no specific training for teachers to use. The features of this tool can be adapted according to classroom needs. It has sharing options so teachers can reuse materials thus enables advance preparation.




Engaging: Resources available in Triptico are interactive therefore it can promote collaborative group work in your classroom. This tool can facilitate visual and kinesthetic learners, especially when using whiteboard interactive.




Motivating: Triptico enables students to learn in a fun way since it provides game-like activities. Its competitiveness can give fresh air to classroom.










What are the limitations?

 

Online connection: This tool needs online connection to run therefore it may restrict teachers' use in internet limited area.

Upgrade: You need the upgraded version to access all of its feature. If you use the free version, you still have limited access to its features.