When I began my gamification experiment this year, I asked the students in my classes a simple question: would you rather have digital or physical badges? I was ABSOLUTELY surprised when my students overwhelmingly demanded physical badges. Even after I said that these badges would be simply be printed on card stock, they were adamant! I originally thought that these students, who are digital ... Read More about Gamification: How I Make My Badges
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New “Team” Feature for Kahoot!
Kahoot! is an absolutely amazing formative assessment tool for classrooms. It's fun, competitive, and it offers great insight for teachers. AND...students actually love it! Kahoot! is appealing to students of virtually all academic and grade levels. Teachers can easily create a variety of activities on Kahoot!, and can quickly share those activities with their students to encourage content ... Read More about New “Team” Feature for Kahoot!
Creating a Database with Google Sites
At the end of the year, I feel like I find myself searching for new or different tools/activities even more than I normally do. Why? Simply because I need to find something new or different to motivate my students. The light at the end of the school year tunnel is getting bigger, the weather is a tad nicer (sometimes - I mean, I do live in Missouri), and inside the four walls of a classroom is ... Read More about Creating a Database with Google Sites
Google Classroom Update: April 2016
Google has been busily making great changes to Classroom, most of which have been additions to the Android or iOS Classroom apps. I read on the Google Classroom blog today, that a new feature had been added to the "create a question" option. Teachers can now poll their students with a multiple choice question without having to create a Google Form. Yippee! As I normally do, I tried the new ... Read More about Google Classroom Update: April 2016
Gamification: My Plan for the Badges
As a gamification novice, I will be the first to admit that I walked into Mission: American Government (the name of our "game"), I really wasn't sure how it would work out. After establishing how students would earn XP and what tools they would be able to use at the various levels I'd created, I then turned to my PLN on Twitter to learn about badges in the world of gamification. Thank ... Read More about Gamification: My Plan for the Badges
