Richard Byrne highlighted PurposeGames.com on his blog this week (a good tech blog to follow).
This site lets you upload an image and then create either points or regions on the picture that you can click; the clickable-points/regions allow you to tie questions and answers to them – like "hot spots" on technology enhanced items (TEIs).
Examples:
It takes a minute to figure-out how the game works. Read the prompts.
A game I made for SOL 6.10a (π)
Coordinate Plane
Quadrilaterals
13 Colonies
Anatomy
WHY A TEACHER MIGHT CARE:
This site lets you upload an image and then create either points or regions on the picture that you can click; the clickable-points/regions allow you to tie questions and answers to them – like "hot spots" on technology enhanced items (TEIs).
Examples:
It takes a minute to figure-out how the game works. Read the prompts.
A game I made for SOL 6.10a (π)
Coordinate Plane
Quadrilaterals
13 Colonies
Anatomy
WHY A TEACHER MIGHT CARE:
- Perfect for SmartBoard; put it up during paper/pencil-snapshot for early-finishers to work on.
- Like 'flash cards,' students can do it again-&-again until memorized. Informal, no grade-penalty.
- Send link via Engrade, Gradebook Wizard, etc.
- Easy to make your own and once students have done one game, they you won't need instructions for others – quick, easy routine.