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Sporcle is one of the most addicting, trivia based, gaming web sites that students will enjoy for reviewing content or new material pre-testing. Instructors can create their own content using anyone of the three major delivery methods. Image identification, fill in the blanks, or answer bank selection. Students challenge themselves to answer the questions before time runs out and then scored based on percentage completed. Once the game is over, students are revealed the correct answered and where they fall in the percentages of games played. Sporcle is free and can be run on any platform or web browser. Games or test are easily created using manually entry or loaded from a document. Sporcle allows all users to create content giving everyone opportunity to add content specific to unique topics. Once content is created, the links can be shared and the data is view able for all users to see and collect.

PowToon is an outstanding online tool to create animated presentations. Animations are easy to set up and put in motion using simple tools and provided characters to present ideas or stories. Sounds can be added along with voice over capabilities. Once the animation is created, it can be viewed using an embed code or exported to different online media through using a simple link. Powtoon is a web based client that can run on any web based platform. Powtoon is a great teacher resource to let students bring their stories to life through animations and sound. Students can tell stories or create their own adaptations and tell the story they intended. Students can take events and re-enact the dialogue or create their own dialogue that parallels that even.

Fun and free educational games for kids in K-8. Featuring multiplayer learning games, math games, language arts games, and much more! Students can create real-time, online private games for up to 12 players and race for skill practice.

Tinkercad is a fun and great resource for students who may be interested an easy to use 3D CAD design tool. it will alloy any user to develop and produce models using simple geometric shapes. Also provided in the interface, are 3D numbers, letters and other objects to aid in construction of solid models. Models can be exported or imported into the design center in either metric or English units. All models are saved online and can be easily assessed through two recommended web browsers. Once models are constructed and ready for production, they can be converted to .STL files or send electronically to a third party to be produced at a small fee. Tinkercad is a web based tool that can be operated on Microsoft and Apple machines inside Chrome or Firefox web browsers recommended. Tinkercad is a great resource for instructors to prove proof of concept models for students who need to build simple models. Students find this site extremely easy to use and resourceful when needing one of a kind models for projects. Tinkercad can be used in student centered instruction to build or construct a final project which solves the intended goal. Students then can review, make changes, then resign the models to meet the groups requirements.

Socrative is a student response system. It can be used with any laptop or smartphone. Teachers can create or share quizzes, polling questions, or exit tickets. Socrative allows the teacher to see in real time students' answers. The students also receive instant results. It also has a racing game in which students can work individually or in groups. Socrative seems to be a great resource for any teacher. Teachers are able to give instant feedback to students. Given this, teachers would be able to adjust their teaching to reinforce concepts or reteach concepts. Socrative would be easy to integrate into any classroom as long as the teacher has access to laptops or the students are allowed to use their phones in the classroom.

Socrative is an amazing resource! It's perfect for a BYOD school!