Outline plan ● In 30 minutes: ● Introduce me ● Why Review games ● Ted Talk inspiration – 5 aspects of computer games that beat education ● Use PPT and Premade set of flachcards - to show Quizlet ● Make a new set of flashcards from Word doc. ● Get participants to navigate to the new cards ● Learn with the cards ● Do an activity on the cards –to get high score ● Take a test (students choose and design self test) ● Mention extra features – photos, sharing, embeding etc. ● Export the cards using ‘*’ ● Make a class tools game ● Save the html file ● Grab the embed code / link and put it into my blog ● Play the games ● High score feature – invite participates to play and aim for a high score. ● If we had more time

Creating Review Games with Free Web Tools Presented by: David Faure

About me … I teach Bio & Science in Toulouse, France All my students bring a laptop to lessons So I’m keen to make good use of ICT. Father of three & amateur bassoonist. My Blog: -

What are Review Games? Activities that: develop a student’s factual knowledge help students gain confidence in these key facts Review - Revision - Rehearsal

Can Educators learn from Games ? “Gamers often commit great feats of persistence, dedicating hundreds of hours to complete marathon quests.” John Riccitiello Challenge at the right level Instant feedback Lots of rewards Plenty of chances to try again A social aspect – competition

Two great web tools I’m going to focus on just 2 web tools in this webinar. There is a whole range of opportunities with them.

quizlet Motivating students: Instant feedback, Fun, Competition

What is Quizlet? Revision cards - Quick tests - Online puzzles

Learning the Cards online Instant feedback and lots of chance to try again

Quizlet Card Printing Options Give students a choice

Quizlet Online self-correcting test Printing option makes a quick test for class

Making your flashcards

Let’s Try Quizlet ● Imagine you want to help your students learn the key terms in a topic. ● Example Quizlet- y-with-quizlet-flash-cards.html y-with-quizlet-flash-cards.html ● I often begin with a list in a word document.

Start: a simple word document

Quizlet – Import Data

Exporting the Set of Cards

Classtools

Classtools.net We are going to use the Arcade Game Generator The choice of games looks like this …

Make an arcade game in a minute

ClassTools.net Arcade Games

A bit of Competition

Extras

Android & iPhone APP

Classtools.net We are going to use the Arcade Game Generator The choice of games looks like this …

Classtools Extras Fakebook – Makes research tasks motivating ● Personify something ● A country / element / An Animal

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