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Game-based lesson plans. Free Tools To create and Administer Quizzes. 7 Online Quiz Tools Perfect For Classrooms. Whether you want to have students turn in homework via an online form or simply take a quiz or test, online quiz tools are critical to having a connected classroom.

7 Online Quiz Tools Perfect For Classrooms

Most tools are free, all are robust, and they’re quite easy to use. What could be better than that? You can use any of these below tools to get feedback from parents, students, colleagues, and more. QuizBean-Create Online Quizzes. 5 Tools to Create and Administer Quizzes Online.

Other than attending staff meetings, writing and grading quizzes might be the least enjoyable part of teaching.

5 Tools to Create and Administer Quizzes Online

Fortunately, there are some tools that can make the process a little bit easier. Here are five tools teachers can use to create and administer quizzes online. There are many other quiz and survey tools on the web, but not all of them provide the option to see quiz takers' results. These five were chosen because teachers can see their students' results.

I use Google Forms for giving short multiple choice quizzes. 1. Zoho Challenge is a part of the Zoho suite of document, presentation, and office productivity tools. Digital Badges for Professional Development. Higher education institutions and other organizations interested in supporting learning are experimenting with digital badges to guide, motivate, document, and validate formal and informal learning.

Digital Badges for Professional Development

Across the United States, higher education institutions and other organizations are experimenting with the use of digital badges to guide, motivate, document, and validate formal and informal learning. Badges are currently in use or in development at institutions such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon, the University of California–Davis, Purdue University, Seton Hall, and Yale University. Organizations outside of higher education interested in supporting learning are issuing badges too, including NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. departments of Veterans Affairs and Education, the Young Adult Library Services Association, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Smithsonian, EDUCAUSE, and the movie studio Disney-Pixar.

T-Shaped Graduates. BigDoor: Gamified Loyalty and Rewards Programs. The Behavior Platform. Gamification improves user engagement, employee productivity and customer loyalty. Gamify - Everything's a Game. Room Escape Maker - Create Escape The Room Games For Free. Basic information ROOM ESCAPE MAKER is a free online application to create Escape The Room games.

Room Escape Maker - Create Escape The Room Games For Free

Build challenging casual point and click games with puzzles, hidden objects, safes with combination locks, and much more. YOU are game designer. And for free :-) The community You are more than welcome to be a part of the project. What is Gamification and Why Should You Care? This is a community post, untouched by our editors.

What is Gamification and Why Should You Care?

PREVIOUS: How To Bring An Event To Life With Augmented Reality When you think of gamification, what do you think of? How to Use Gamification to Reward Customers and Engage Prospects. Everyone wants new business.

How to Use Gamification to Reward Customers and Engage Prospects

But sometimes we get so wrapped up in trying to predict what the next great lead-gen tactic will be, we forget that new business doesn't come just from new customers. It also comes from your current customers, and it's a lot cheaper to acquire, to boot. Tools and Games. Describes subject matter that is presented in a brief, simplified, often distorted manner, with little or no attempt to represent images realistically.

Tools and Games

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The Power of Gamification in Loyalty

So is this just another gimmicky social media driven tactic by companies? Or is there some genuine strategic value that justifies its rapid infiltration into loyalty programs. It may seem gimmicky on the surface but gamification addresses two key strategic issues for companies running loyalty programs: 1. Jump starting loyalty programs with early member engagement 2. The impact of gamification on these two key challenges areas warrants a separate look at each. How to Use Game Mechanics to Reward Your Customers. There's a green card.

How to Use Game Mechanics to Reward Your Customers

Then there's silver, gold, and platinum. And then there's the Centurion—the black American Express card. Which do you want in your wallet? A handful of luxury brands have for decades used promises of status to encourage customers to spend more through loyalty to their brands. Today, brands of all stripes are experimenting with the psychology of status and power in rewarding customers. Consider Foursquare, a company built entirely on a game-design model. The new rewards ecosystem is a marketer's dream. "Historically, customer engagement was something big brands did a lot better due to full scale loyalty programs," says Gabe Zichermann, a blogger who authored Game-Based Marketing and who hosts of the Gamification Summit. Kids Games - Play Educational and Fun Online Kids Games! Play Kids Games. Fun and Free Educational Review Games by Review Game Zone.

The 50 Best Videos For Teachers Interested In Gamification. Image by Sezzles via Flickr Creative Commons Gaming in education is a really big deal, and a very fun way to get students more involved and interested in education. Board games, video games, even active outdoor games all have an important place in education, and these videos share more about their role in learning. Check out our list of 50 awesome videos for gaming teachers to discover what experts, teachers, and even students have to say about using games for education. Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter : Check out Gabe Zichermann’s TED talk to find out how video games can actually make kids smarter and better problem solvers.

Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks : Check out this video to see how you can turn a cheap Wii Remote into a sophisticated educational tool. 5000+ Free PowerPoint Templates, Free PowerPoint Backgrounds. Interactives / Welcome to wickED - WickEd. Why the Gamification of Learning Became so Successful. Who could have predicted that the gamification of learning could have yielded such continued success, for students of all ages?

Why the Gamification of Learning Became so Successful

If twenty or so years ago you were to tell an educator that the future of learning exists in digital gaming, you’d probably be laughed at. Not too long ago games were viewed almost universally as a deterrent to education—the word “videogame” had nothing but the most negative connotation to many parents and educators. Games weren’t viewed as sources of learning, but ones of distraction. Of course that has all changed in recent years. Technological advances—particularly with mobile devices—have made gaming a much more viable platform for educators who want to provide interactive and engaging learning materials. Modern technology enhances the learning experience Educational games have been around almost as long as the video gaming industry. But the advent of the smartphone, and more recently the tablet have made educational gaming a real and vibrant industry. Download FREE PowerPoint Background Templates for Teachers (K-12) at Brainy Betty.

Fun Stuff. Bubbabrain, K-12+, AP/IB, SAT Interactive vocabulary practice! FREE TEMPLATES - Games, Ready Made, Abstract - for Presentations in PowerPoint format. GAMIFICATION EXPLAINED BETTER! 8 Research Findings Supporting the Benefits of Gamification in Education. On Sunday, Tess Pajaron sent me a great article from Open Colleges about “The Virtues of Daydreaming And 30 Other Surprising (And Controversial) Research Findings About How Students Learn”. One thing that really struck me about this article is how many of these findings indicated benefits that can come from the use of gaming in education.

Some of the findings directly addressed the subject, while others were indirectly indicative of potential positive outcomes of gaming in an instructional context. eQuizShow Online Templates. Differences between Gamification and Games. This is an expanded version of the previous work on Serious games and Gamification below Ever since I first started considering Game Thinking, I have been trying to come up with a way to break down all of the parts that make it up.

The first attempt was my article about the differences between serious games and gamification. This gave me a basic outline of the 4 areas I considered to make up Game Thinking. Since then, I have been thinking about this a lot. I have been trying to break it down even further. This lead to me writing down a basic outline of what would fall under the other headings in my list. Educational Videos and Games for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English. Power Point Backgrounds, Presentations.

Free PowerPoint Templates These are recycled and 100% free PowerPoint templates from past presentations. Use them for idea starters, or for whatever you wish. Enjoy! To download your PowerPoint template (or presentation or background): Right click on each link or graphic, then select "Save Target As... " Corporate PowerPoint Template Place your own logo in the white space.

MyGameBuilder: Make & share your own games for free. Cooltoolsforschools - home. ContentGenerator.net - create your own Educational Flash games. Kids Games - Play Educational and Fun Online Kids Games! Play Kids Games. Interactive Games. W2L Info Published on December 1st, 2013 | by What2Learn. ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education. Word Games - Hangman. PowerPoint Games. VignettesLearning.Com. Fun and Free Educational Review Games by Review Game Zone. OCSD Interactive Games. Create Your Own Games. ContentGenerator.net - create your own Educational Flash games.

Make Ur Own Game. Primary Resources - Free teaching resources, lesson plans, teaching ideas & worksheets for primary and elementary teachers. Make My Own Game. eTools for Language Teachers - PowerPoint Exercises. Over the years, I have created many different lessons for K to 8 French classes using PowerPoint presentations.

I believe that PowerPoint is truly the best way to teach song lyrics because the children just follow along as the words come up and the images greatly facilitate comprehension. I recommend that you read the songs through once with the children, and then play it with the music the second time through. There are also two stories here on PowerPoint with sound effects that the students really enjoy. You can download any and all of the presentations in this section for free. Please note: I have not included the music files (mp3) with any of the presentations in order not to violate the artists’ copyright protection. VignettesLearning.Com. The Return Of Video To eLearning.

Create Your Own Games. What2Learn. Learning, powered by imagination. - Memrise.