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👋🏻I'm Dan - one of the co-founders of Clever - thanks for starting a thread on this!
I wanted to share some additional information about the planned acquisition: Kahoot! Press Release, Kahoot! Blog Post & Clever Blog Post
From the Clever blog post:
While we’re excited about the changes, rest assured we aren’t changing. Clever is continuing to do what we do best. Our team’s dedication to incredible customer support and reliability is unchanged. Our industry-leading commitment to student data privacy, security, and compliance is only getting stronger which will continue to be a key focus for us when scaling internationally. Our innovative business model– working with our app customers so we can offer Clever’s platform to districts for free– isn’t changing. We’re remaining an open platform, accessible to all schools and all companies.
And the Kahoot! blog post:
Joining forces with Clever will further strengthen Kahoot! as a key player in U.S. K-12 education through Clever’s trusted platform. The companies will continue to be independent entities going forward, however, and the partnership will meaningfully accelerate Kahoot!’s mission to make learning awesome and bring us closer to our vision of building a global leading learning platform. We will also strive to keep both companies’ promise to empower educators and help learners everywhere with free access to educational tools forever.
I hope that clarifies things! I'll try to keep an eye on this thread and answer other questions that come up... maybe we could even do an AMA in a week or two once things are a little more calm :)
It's like a digital quiz. The teacher creates the quiz on line, the kids log in with the quiz code and type in their names. They answer the questions on their device and they register to the teacher account. Each student can put their own names in, which is how they put in Ann Frank.
If they are used correctly they can be an amazing tool in education. Check out Kahoot! which kids LOVE. It's basically a browser based game you can make flashcards with and have them use their phones to answer with in class. They go crazy for it and actually pay attention. Of course texting and zoning out is counterproductive, though.
Check out Nearpod or Kahoot for presentation systems. These allow you to import a PowerPoint, but put in activities like polls, quizes, draw-to-identify, and more. Then during the lecture, everyone gets an access code, and can follow along, vote, and participate on thier own devices (smartphones, computers).
On these platforms, people can pick their screen names. It's a great opportunity to have some fun, as long as no one picks something extremely inappropriate.
Also, trying to keep lectures case-based can help, as it ties in learning in a way that feels more applicable. I personally like setting up the case, and then going through the mechanisms of the disease/medication. Then every time I talk about a feature, I refer back to what it was causing in the patient's presentation. I try to focus on why the disease is affecting the patient, as it can take the dry pathophysiology and turn it into a key element of the patient's story.
I don’t know if anyone has already said that but I think Kahoot is a really nice way to learn (I actually used that in English class but I know there are activities also in Spanish). In my class everyone loved it.
Kahoot is a really simple game. You can start a “game” on the board (you can choose between many, Spanish could be the subject of the test but I actually suggest you to choose something about Spanish culture written in Spanish). Everyone can join just using their phones. It has many advantages: - Everyone can play at the same time (alone or maybe in couples if you prefer). - Even people who usually do not partecipate in class will. Some people are extremely competitive and so they will try to win, other will just have to, but at the end everyone will enjoy that. - It does not take too much time once you’re familiar with it, so you could just have a ten minutes game at the end of each class. - You actually learn vocabulary and stuff. And you have fun.
Aimed at educational engagement but we have used it at work to run quizzes while on zoom calls. You pre-load the questions and then you can run puzzles and games through it
I realize not everyone will have access to iPads or computers in the classroom, but for those who do, JHS students go crazy for Kahoot. You can create simple online quizzes and everyone gets to choose an answer. Scores are based on speed and accuracy. It's pretty fun to see people climbing up the leader board as the game continues.
If you want to flip your classroom, make the students create a Kahoot quiz over the materials. When they come to class, you pick a student and they play it. Everyone has a phone. The results are displayed on the board if you have projector. It's a little competition and it breaks the monotony. Most of your students should be familiar with it from high school, it's real big in K-12.
I just answer questions in class with pride and mentally flex. 🧠 💪🏻 I’m normally a quiet kid but a lot of people know me because of how smart I am. For example, a couple days ago in Spanish class, we did a couple rounds of Kahoot! and I answered every question correctly and finished in first place both times in a class of approximately twenty people. After the rounds ended and I finished in first place, a couple people said something along the lines of “How is Joe so smart?” (I swapped out my real name for Joe.)
For me, the biggest PITA is the lack of an integrated learning management system to deliver content, manage grades, and present games.
For a more humorous project, I would like something like a portable containment box for difficult students. Spring loaded, pops out and fits down over a desk. Sound proof but with an air filter. Students can see out but we can't see in. Settable with a timer. "The Isolation Station" ^((TM))
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For design help and understanding Ethos, Pathos, Logos in a static format like a website, click on this link to "Kahoot":
Pathos is the appeal to emotion, but not a direct appeal, as the logical fallacy, more the idea of incorporating stirring emotional content that engages a hearers emotions. So pathos is the picture of the girl at the top having the time of her life playing kahoot. It's the key words and gif animations at the "create", "host", and "play" in the middle of the page.
Ethos is the appeal to respect. Again it's not the the fallacious appeal to authority, but instead it's the confidence or appeal to the respect that the audience shows for preparation and expertise. Here we have appeals to "passionate educators" and the serious uses of the Kahoot suite of applications for business! This is important stuff! At the bottom, there are quotes from people we would expect, like an AP teacher dropping the mic with an excellent quote. Additionally, it's well presented, brightly designed, easy to navigate, etc. All the hallmarks of a professional presentation that is worth a teacher's attention.
Logos is the appeal to logic and reason--not just data but argument to use a product. " More than 1,000,000,000 players a year", or even "50 million public games available" etc.
Kahoot is a poll/quiz app worth checking out. It costs $5/month for the lowest tier, so definitely not expensive if you have small classes. I've used it mostly for test reviews and for pre-post assessment in intro courses.
Is this for e-learning or instructor-led, in-person training? You mentioned "online exercises" but you also mentioned "printing out cards," so I'm a bit confused.
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u/exotekmedia mentioned Captivate and Storyline. You might also check out The Training Arcade or Kahoot.
Don't let them pick their names! You are asking for trouble. I always use the nickname generator when I use Kahoot. Highly recommend.
that story is actually come from my experience when attending a seminar...
well, for school context, i don't know whether they are actually using smartphone or not... but, it could be played in computer lab , so each student could "play" without smartphone...
https://kahoot.com/blog/2017/11/14/kahooters-projected-perform-above-district-norms/
https://kahoot.com/blog/2018/03/13/collaboration-classroom-math-teacher-tips/
Who am I is fun. Write famous people on slips of paper and then they put them on their foreheads (like headbandz) and have to ask yes or no questions to find out who they are. Our something like 100,000 pyramid where there is a pyramid of words. One partner can see the screen and one can't so they have to describe the words to the other person until they guess them. I usually put a random name or two in for fun like Steph Curry or RuPaul or something. "Two truths and a lie" is fun as well as just "never have i ever". I also sometimes play scattergories in class, which involves choosing categories (mode of transportation, food, boys name, reflexive verb, emotion, etc.) and a letter and people have to write something in each category that starts with that letter. Similarly, you can just say a category and have each person add something to that category until they cant think of something or repeat, then they say a new category like aves: pollo, golondrina, águila, gorrión, cuervo, paloma, halcón, perdiz, pavo, codorniz, colibrí, etc.
I've also done "cadena de palabras" in which you have to say a word and the next person has to say a word that starts with the last letter of the previous word carta-alambre-elefante-elemental-lacio-ocho-ornitorrinco-olvidar-rey, etc.
Trabalenguas can also be fun. I have a slide I can send you.
Obviously you're familiar with pictionary and charades. Straight up trivia is also fun like spanish world geography, history, sports, food, etc. I also have a ppt I can send you. You can easily make a fun online quiz on kahoot.com which my students always really like.
When I am in the swing of using plickers, probably a couple times per week. I haven't used it often recently b/c we were wrapping up a unit but I usually ask comprehensive questions or review (multiple choice) after a reading such "Which of the following from the text supports that Romeo is dramatic.
There are lots of ways you can use it. A math teacher I work with has them answer questions on an entry activity and then uses a couple of the questions (the students won't know which) for plickers as a review.
You can also try kahoot as another method for exit tickets.
i haven't used it myself, but this was recently recommended:
https://kahoot.com/academy/study/?grade=all-ages&subject=trivia&language=english
Sometimes people who are poor at learning languages have other strengths. Use visuals to help people learn, and 'gamify' your teaching with websites like Baamboozle.com, Kahoot.com, and gartic.io to relax students and help them have fun while learning. You could also try more kinetic learning, if you're not online. Have students do running dictation: put up 8-10 sentences on paper on the walls of your classroom. Put students in pairs. One is the writer/listener, and the other is the runner/speaker. (Perhaps your reluctant one could be a runner/speaker.) The runner must find each sentence, memorize it, then run to the writer/listener and speak that sentence. It's action-packed and kinetic learners like it a lot. Good luck!
If you do a virtual event, then one activity can be a trivia game about your son. Using the platform, https://kahoot.com. You create the questions about your son. Questions could be some the kids may know and some they may not to help make it tough, educational, and fun. Each kid answers on their own device. You could even be the game show host on zoom, reading off the questions and then reporting who answered the most right questions at the end. Maybe offer some type of prize. I suggest you do a dry run of this on your own before the actual live event.
To build off a previous comment on The group baking exercise, you could mail off a box to each kid that has a birthday tablecloth, beverages, snacks that your son likes and other fun items they can participate in together. Maybe have a steak dinner delivered to each of their houses and make it a bit more adult-Ish since he’s 17.
go to kahoot.com and find the teacher's account, assuming the teacher makes their own kahoots you can look at them before class and get all the answers. if the teacher uses random kahoots, when the game is about to begin quickly search the name of the kahoot and try to find it
Take the initiative and invite them to a virtual lunch or coffee. When they come, make it fun, have some activities on Kahoot to share with them. When you sign up with Kahoot, make sure to select socially. Smile when you are in contact with them, virtually or in-person. Make sure your smile is visible if you are wearing a mask; your smile needs to be wider for them to see it. Keep friendly eye contact, so when you say, hi, make sure to look them in the eye in a friendly way. Lastly, don't dwell on the past, it is bygone. Move on, so that they can move on too.
>baby shower trivia game
Thanks for the reply! I've browsed a little in kahoot.com, but I couldn't find something like Airconsole's FriendsQuiz. Still, there are many quizzes which I can still try, so thanks!
Build aKahoot! for the 15 minute homeroom time. Could just be a pop-culture one. Kids (and adults) love the competition!
There are also a bunch user-made Kahoots you could use as well.
Check it out. It’s a multiple choice quiz game for kids. There are many different categories to choose from. It’s fun!
You can also leave your class link for the game open for 30 days, so your students can challenge each other after school hours and you can monitor it
We had some pretty good success with playing pictionary using the the whiteboard tool. You need dedicated scorekeeper/moderator - they can be the same person but it might get tricky for some.
The moderator randomly selects a participant (John Smith) and sends them a private message with a word random word from a pictionary random word generator. The participant starts a whiteboard sharing session. In the meeting chat, the moderator types in something like 'Q1: John Smith' and then John can start drawing out the clues. Participants must type their answer into the chat to guess so that you can actually see who guessed it first. We actually found out that when you have 10-20 people send a message within a second of each other - they don't necessarily show up in the same order for all participants - so be prepared for some bitter arguments about that. We just made a rule saying that whatever the order displayed on the moderator's screen is the final say. There are a few free online scorekeeper websites that the moderator/scorekeeper can use to keep track of points.
You can also use Kahoot! to make your own trivia that each person can join on their phone or in a browser alongside their Teams window and the moderator can share their screen to display the questions to everyone.
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It's free to make a custom online game for your virtual friends using Kahoot.com We've used it in our corporate classroom with great success. It would be fun with just your friends playing together or apart.
kahoot ?
tu vas pouvoir créer le test, le hoster et le piloter avec le compte manager, et les candidats se connectent sur kahoot.it avec l'identifiant du jeu pour y répondre.
I use Tencent Meeting with my 50 university students. It's in Chinese but it's free and I can use it for 2 hour class. I don't have the video on, I just do a screen share with audio and focus on a PPT with embedded audios and videos in it. I have my students send me voice messages on WeChat for in-class speaking assignments and have them use the Tencent Meeting chatbox if they want to volunteer to to read or answer my questions during lecture. At times I will call on them to turn on their audio to answer questions. The app also allows students to submit files and use an in-app word document.
I've also used kahoot.com to create a really fun quiz for them to take at the same. I screen share the questions, and they pull up the site on their own browser and click the answers. They had a blast doing it!
It’s like a fun quiz game where the answers are multiple choice. The answers appear on a screen or projector as boxes. Here’s a summary of what it is https://kahoot.com/what-is-kahoot/
Sure. I took most of them from here: https://www.eslgamesplus.com/
There was also this game: https://www.englishmedialab.com/GrammarGames/En%20garde/Adjectives%20Opposites/Adjectives%20Opposites.html
For me the gold standard of educational games (not saying much really) is Kahoot: https://kahoot.com/ which isn't just ESL, and perhaps isn't what you're looking for, but I thought I'd include it all the same.
Good luck with your game!
IF you have a bit of time and want to make it more user involved you could do -
Create a pycto, with a hidden message, and first person to DM u right answer wins
Create a silly quiz at kahoot.com, have folks participate at same designated time,and highest score winner wins
dont get me wrong, but raffler seems to pick the same ppl again...
"Kahoot! was launched in private beta in March 2013 at SXSWedu. In September 2013, the beta was opened to public, and it’s been quite a ride ever since!" Thats when the article was posted, not kahoot created (september 2013), so calm down
oh, you mean the other forms of technology that are easily going for maybe $1000 each?
all technology is expensive, but phones are the most versatile and most useful, a laptop is heavy and requires lugging around, imagine if a student could turn up to school with just their phone and they’d be set for a whole day!
i’m going to assume you’ve never been in a class where phones have been allowed to be used, so i’ll give you the benefit of the doubt
but i have, and by god it’s amazing, sure, some fuck around, but that already happens, not all of them do. set the class up with a kahoot and they will learn and have fun! the best kind of learning, yeah you can do this off other technology, but a phone is a pocket sized version that lets you pull out the phone, go to the url and start the quiz!
teachers are busy in a class of 30 right? not every student gets a chance to talk to a teacher, the student can just pull out their phone and know about their question without having to wait for their teacher, and hell, make a forum for those classes and boom, instant communication from student to student about the topic, some teachers don’t teach the same stuff as another, having those forums on a student’s phone means the student can view them at home, on the bus/train, anywhere!
technology is the greatest thing we have, and it needs to be used for improvements, not treated like some toy
You could create kahoot! quizzes as lesson review and have the students use the iPods to play! Students always enjoy kahoot! even if the material is boring because they get to competitive; if warn them they'll be playing beforehand you're sure to have them pay attention more than usual. It even worked on me and my other classmates when one of our classmates did a mock lesson
So kahoot clone basically ? I wanted to point you to stackshare.io but I just checked and they don't have kahoot there... But maybe it will help you later on once you're making a clone of some other thing.
To answer your question, gameplay loop function indeed doesn't seem like the best solution here. I'd probably just sent an ajax request on a click of the button. PHP then handles that request, queries database, whatever you need. Point is no loop has to be running and you simply monitor users clicks.
Since PHP isn't asynchronous language, I think stuff like gameplay loop indeed isn't a thing for it. That's where javascript comes to help PHP.
I hope this answer was at least a bit helpful.
You'd want to have a presentation tool that would be fun.
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If you have access to the internet during your demo, and if your students have devices, try Peardeck. It's a Powerpoint/Google slides alternative that have interactivity functions. You can sign up for a free trial so you have access to all the tools they have, which include things you can use to teach Science. There is also Kahoot, where you can do a quiz that turns into a competitive game for the students where they see who is leading in points.
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If you don't have access to tech, try having them participate by turning them into "real-life" parts of the equation. Have volunteers stand up and assign values to them and use them as the equation, shifting them around as you balance. Or any other activity where they don't just sit and listen to you. Always involve them in your planning.
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Good luck!
I've used a Jeopardy powerpoint template with my fifth graders. I also used a similar one for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Both are pretty good, but Millionaire is more conducive to doing multiple choice, obviously. (They were both created by someone named Mark Damon, and I found them online.)
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If your son's class has access to ipads or some other kind of tablet, there's an online quiz platform called Kahoot! that is really fun and pretty easy to set up. It's like the software that you sometimes see for quiz nights at bars.
It's more of an assessment but you could use Kahoot! to get students involved. You can present new and old information so they're not only self-assessing but they're also challenging themselves with new information. You could have groups create their own as a presentation alternative.
Oh, if you don't already use Kahoot!, it's a must. Bar trivia-style multiple choice quizzes where you're rewarded for speed alongside accuracy. They get to pick usernames, but it's easy for you to see and delete inappropriate ones, then the kid just doesn't get to play, so they'll respect it.
I think there really should be a computer literacy course. However, it shouldn't focus on how to use Word or things like that but more general things. For example, most of my students are blown away by ctrl+f
These "digital natives" may know how to do basic things on their phones but their mouse and keyboard skills are abysmal. When I post a link on the board for them to go to there is always at least one who puts the url into the search box and then is confused when they can't find it. Or no matter how many times I tell them to go to something like kahoot.it and it says kahoot.it on the screen but they still go to kahoot.com because they think everything is a .com
And who is still telling these 18 and 19 year olds that you can trust a url if it is a .org or other stupid things like that?
Or they will go to google, search for youtube, go to youtube, then search for the video they want.
Yes to all of these!
I'd also suggest utilizing Class Dojo. It's a tool you can use to graphically track behavior in real time and project it on-screen. Points can be quickly added or subtracted from a computer, tablet or phone. I've found it can really be effective -- even if kids seem to not care. And it doesn't even need to be tied in with any specific reward system: kids often just like the thrill of competing.
Another great way to get and keep their attention is Kahoot. Its essentially a remote response system, except instead of having to pass out devices, they can use their smart phones (if that's allowed Or advisable at at this school.
Most of all, remember that this is a crazy time in their lives. You'll have some students who are still playing with dolls and trucks in their spare time, while others are trying to figure out more, ahem, adult pursuits. And everything in-between.
Best of luck.