Interactive Learning

Quizlet Live is an in-class, team based learning game. Students are randomly grouped and they must work together to correctly match a Quizlet set's terms and definitions. The first team to match 12 in a row wins! It's active. loud, and amazing!

Here's how to participate

• Navigate to quizlet.live
• Join the session with the join code provided
• You will be assigned a group
• You must find your group and answer the questions correctly
• All will have the same question, but only one will have the right answer
• Choose the correct answer, but be careful. If you miss, you have to start over!
• The first team to get 12 in a row correct WINS!

Think about it...

Discuss how your students could use Quizlet in your classroom to meet your assignment objectives and to increase the 4 C's.

Try It

• Create a Quizlet account if you don't have one already
  
• Search the quizzes already available
  
• Make some flash cards or...
• Create a live quiz with your group
  
• Check out the Quizlet Live Tutorial

Quizizz (no app needed)

Quizizz is a classic game quiz that is player-paced. Quizizz lets you create fun formative assessments in a self paced game show format! The questions are sent directly to the student devices. You shuffle the questions and answers, set timers, and print detailed reports for each question as well as for each student. Complete with avatars, leaderboards, music and memes, Quizizz will keep students engaged in their learning for sure.

Let's Try It!

• Navigate to https://quizizz.com/join/
  
• Click on Join a Game
  
• Enter the code provided
  
• Wait for the game to begin

Quizizz Features

• Easily create your own quizzes or select questions from their large data base
  
• Student Paced
  
• Real time feedback
  
• Save and export data

Quizizz tutorials

Love Jeopardy? Then you'll love Flip Quiz Me. It's a quick and easy way to create your own gameshow-style boards for test reviews, concept reviews, and general knowledge assessments. And it's fun! Great for the interactive board!

Additional Features:

• Random Name Chooser
  
• Random Group Maker
• Questions are on screen
• Can be used over and over
• Stored in your account
• Searchable database of game boards

Let's Try It!

Easily create interactive multimedia presentations to engage your audience. Push your presentation to the student devices. End-of-lesson reports to help you monitor progress and plan future instruction. Students can create their own presentations to share with the class. West Lowndes has the full District Version!

• Nearpod
  
• Every How To and Teacher Resource You Will Ever Need
• Designing Great Presentations

Feel free to take notes and share!

• Today's Student Presentation
  
• Today's Teacher Presentation
  

You've seen just a few things that are possible to create and design an engaging and interactive lesson. Your mission today:

• Peruse the resources shared with you
  
• Design an interactive and engaging lesson to use tomorrow
  
• You may use any or all of the activities today or create your own
  
• We will share our lessons at the end of today's session
  
• Building a Lesson Checklist
  

Helpful Hints:

• If can easily convert your PowerPoint or Google presentation into individual images
  
• When creating a presentation outside Nearpod, be sure to use standard size, not wide screen
  
• Take a screen shot or photo of text. Upload to Nearpod as a drawing so students can highlight, circle or interact with it.

Teacher Tools

• Education Place - Graphic organizers for every need
  
• VisuWords - Online visual dictionary
• Hidden Treasures for Your Interactive Board - a complete list of interactive activities and sites
• Class Tools- scavenger hunts, name pickers, interactives
• Read Write Think - interactives, lessons and more for language arts and social studies
• Illuminations - lessons and interactives for math
• Interactive Periodic Table
• Science Net Links - lessons and interactives for science
• Smore - a great resource for newsletters, one page web, and more. This document is a Smore!

Photos

• Pixabay - free images and illustrations
• Photos for Class - download properly attributed Creative Commons photos for your school
• Unsplash - free high resolution photos

Design

• Slides Carnival - Free presentation templates for Google Slides

• Canva - the best design site out there!

Angie is an educational technology trainer and consultant who enjoys helping districts, schools, classroom teachers and students implement today's 21st Century Learning tools.

Email: angiebakkeconsulting@gmail.com
Website: www.bit.ly/angiebakke
Location: Dallas, TX, United States
Phone: 972-372-4292
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