This is an example of an instructional game type of software. This is a fun and entertaining educational game that students can play on their mobile device or tablet. Teachers can search for pre-made Kahoot games (in math) or make their own. Students are engaged and points add up to show a leader board and the score of each student to introduce some competition.
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This blog is a wonderful resource for elementary Science teachers. I teach a lot of similar topics so I find it helpful when I need out of the box and fun plans.
Created by the Keith Haring Foundation this site is full of fun activities for kids, images of Keith Haring's artwork, a movie on his life, snapshots of Haring working, virtual interactive books by the artist, links to over 180 lesson plans, and more.
This wiki describes the basic premise of connectivism. Included in the wiki is a table that compares major epistemological philosophies with connectivism.
This site defines connectivism and provides a clear list of some of the principles George Siemens deems to be most important to this theory. There is also a fun interactive component that allows the viewer to consider a situation involving connectivism that could be applied to the lives of many people.
EducationCity is the leading provider of e-learning resources for schools and families in the UK. Interactive whiteboard resources are supported by fun and engaging online games, offering comprehensive, curriculum-based educational activities for use both in school and at home.
An amusement park of math and more... Lessons and games designed for fun! Bored with math? Confused by math? Hate math? Yeah, Coolmath can fix that. Totally dig math? Want to learn more math? Want to get ahead in math? Want to play some cool math games?
I love this site and use it to share tasks with my classes and more importantly have them collaborate and share with each other. Simple, easy to use and fun. Virtual post-its.
A. Quizizz is a fun multiplayer classroom activity, that allows all your students to practice together. This is very similar to Kahoot but runs on individual computers, rather than being projected to the whole class.
On this website you can create and publish an e-book. The books are small picture book style books. The graphics included are fun whimsical style graphics, but you can also add your own pictures or graphics. I saw one book created by a teacher called The Rubric Teacher. The teacher created the book as a cute reminder that the students needed to follow the rubric when working on a project. This is a great way of emphasizing something that often gets ignored in a fun way the students will remember.
This is an online eBook creator. It is free if you want to share or embed the book on a website. You can also pay if you want the book to be printed for a hard copy.
This blog post describes Quizlet Live feature in Quizlet. Quizlet live allows for competition among students or groups of students as long as each student or group has a device.