A Reflective Journey Through...
Sorry to have gone a bit out of order, but I have been saving this module for last! This topic is the first one that caught my eye and the one that has peaked my curiosity the most, so I am thrilled to make it my tenth and final lesson!
A couple of years ago, I learned about Kahoot during a professional development day and was so excited to incorporate it into my units as a fun, motivating way to review content. Since then, I have used it for library lessons with students, have shown teachers how to use it in their classrooms, have used it as a fun send-off in a retirement party, and have had fourth graders create their own Kahoots (within my account, to be safe). I loved using Kahoot in every one of these situations, but I started to feel a little Kahoot-ed out. I was very much ready to learn about some new tools to mix into the curriculum, and this lesson was just what I needed! As I read through the lesson's resources, I found several tools that I will use throughout the future. I am looking forward to having my oldest students create Jeopardy-like quizzes in Flippity like Ms. Khan did to help students review content and to then have different classes play each other's games. I already know a few teachers who will be excited to collaborate with me on that project to reinforce social studies and science concepts, although it would work well with library-specific units too. I will also use Flippity's Random Name PIcker, Crossword and Word Search creators, Bingo creator, and Mad Lib creator. I am amazed by how easy it is to create all of these things from a Google spreadsheet- Just awesome! I loved learning about Quizizz in this lesson too. While it is very similar to Kahoot, here are a few of the major differences I learned from Tony Vincent's post and video demonstration:
While Flippity and Quizizz are both incredible, the review game site that I am most excited to use in class is Quizlet! I love it because it can transform games like a Dewey Decimal Memory game that I've had students do in pairs with printed cards over the years into such an exciting, motivating, team-building experience, especially if I use the Quizlet Live feature. As I have learned about Flippity, Quizizz and Quizlet through several articles and videos this morning, I have bookmarked all three in a "Motivational Teaching Tools" folder within my Chrome bookmark bar for easy access. Because there were even more tools that grabbed my attention in this lesson, here are a few others that I've added to the folder as well:
Polly, I will never be able to thank you enough for all of the fantastic lessons you've created and for all of the resources you have shared in this course!!! It is the most valuable professional development course I have ever taken in my thirteen years as an educator because of the breadth and depth of topics and because of the freedom given to each participant that enabled us to select the lessons that best meet our goals and needs. As a result of this course, I have many outstanding new tools and ideas for updating current units as well as for developing new ones over the summer. I am both energized and inspired! Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am forever grateful!
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