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Pros: High entertainment value brilliantly engages players in tough subject matter. Cons: Contagious gameplay can make deeper concepts ignorable without reflection. Bottom Line: Hours of engaging gameplay will grab even non-gamers and, with some guided reflection, can spur serious learning about the human body.

Trying to find ways to engage your students.  Here are four tools that may be useful.

A good article about the dominant kids in the classroom masking an engagement issue

This is a great tool to use to find good verbs on Bloom's taxonomy and find activities that relate to the verbs

"Explore engaging educational resources, share and assign to your students, and get meaningful reports to make informed decisions - all for free."

Blended learning can be a great way to make use of whatever technology tools you do have, rather than needing specific technology that you don't have. Blended learning doesn't require you to have a 1:1 classroom, a certain number of iPads, or particular software, though you can put any and all of those things to use as you choose. Thus, blended learning covers a lot of ground - and in the process it helps to make learning more engaging, effective, and efficient.

FlipQuiz™​ was created to provide educators with a quick way to create gameshow-style boards for test reviews in the classroom. Traditionally, these are created (tediously) using posterboard, chalkboards, or dry-erase markers on an overhead slide. The review questions are usually even written on a separate sheet of paper. With FlipQuiz™​, questions are displayed on-screen and boards are saved for later use. Combined with a well-designed board, students are more likely to be interested and stay engaged with an otherwise disjunct test review process.

Use content from on and off the web to create an engaging presentation

GoSoapBox is a web-based clicker tool used by educators around the world to keep students engaged and gain real-time insight into studen

NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents no matter how large (or small) your class or collaboration group.

"Engage your audience with beautiful polls, lists, quizzes and plenty more"

Slipp offers a free mobile-first landing platform, that quickly turns mobile traffic into consumer action. With almost half of web traffic coming from mobile devices, Slipp's mobile-first landing experiences are the quickest and simplest way to drive more consumer conversions. Slipps can be used with ads and social postings to promote products, services, events, content, downloads, and much more. Slipps combine a consumer action (call, view, rsvp, calendar, download, buy) with content slides that are quick to create, give dramatic engagement levels on mobile, and drive higher conversions. They can be stand-alone or overlaid on shared content.

"Weavly EDU is an easy to use and free video and music mixing web app designed for classroom use. Tap into your pupils' interests and engage them to learn across the curriculum!"

"Introducing Real World Performance Tasks Real Life. Real Data. Real Challenges. Engage your students with math that is relevant to them."

A before reading strategy to increase student engagement with text and comprehension.  In this strategy students write a paragraph from a list of words given to them by their teacher.  Students must use the words in the order they were given in the list. Students are asked to share their paragraphs with the class.  Then students read the assigned text and make revisions to their original paragraph.

Whether you're a teacher or a student, in K-12, high school, higher education or professional training, you can use Moovly to explain your subject, tell your story and engage your audience.

"Create and publish complete online courses, quick homework assignments, engaging product tutorials/how-to guides, and informative training programs with Versal. It's free and open to everyone."

"Versal is a new way for anyone to create and publish interactive online courses - no coding required. The site provides a simple to use editor to add content, which it then publishes and hosts for you. For free. Versal uses a system of modules it calls gadgets to easily incorporate videos, surveys, quizzes, diagrams, and other tools to make your course more engaging. Gadgets are mini JavaScript apps that you drag-and-drop into into a course. The basics include text, video and images, but the real magic happens with customizable and interactive simulations, diagrams, timelines, flash cards and more."

Create engaging presentations with the user-friendly dashboard. Using the simple and intuitive platform, Projeqt gives you the tools to easily create dynamic presentations. Upload your old PowerPoint and PDF documents, batch upload many image files at once, or create a presentation from scratch in just minutes. Learn Projeqt with ease using our simple tutorials. Whether you're an elementary school student, or a college professor; anyone can do it.