A few great sites to liven up your classroom

#1. Padlet.com (online interactive pinboard)

-          Allows students to move items around from their own computers and, as long as they participate one at a time, they can each change the pinboard.

-          Good for timelines, sorting activities...

-          Good for labelling, exam review

-          Assignment idea: have students create padlet walls for submission.

#2. Quizlet.com (must create an account, everything saves automatically to your account)

-          Good for definitions and terms and activities

-        Create glossary

-        Provide the link to the students

-        Use the icons at the top from left to right

-          Flash cards/ with timer

-          Speller/ audio review format

-          Print the test (test button)

-          Scatter activities

-          Race activities

 #3.  Socrative (b.socrative.com) (create a quiz)

-          Students can use their phones or laptops (with internet access)

-          Students can anonymously answer questions

-          Quiz

-          Quick questions

-          Space Race: teams compete to answer questions

-          You can generate reports, print excel spreadsheets...

#4. Kahoot 

-          Works best with phones

-          Timed responses to questions you create

-          Interactive

-          Easy to make quizzes, surveys

-          Can add images

-          Can download spreadsheet

-          Can access other people’s quizzes as well

-          Good for exit tickets