Classtools is my academic web tool choice. www.classtools.net
Classtools is a website that allows teachers to create educational games for their students. There are dozens of templates to choose from and teachers choose the subject, create the questions and supply the answers. The information is downloaded into the game template and ready to be accessed with an assigned URL address. Teachers can even go back to the game and edit the questions and answers as desired. When lessons are presented as a game, learning is more fun and better received by students. What better way to keep students engaged than entertaining them as they learn? And there is no fee to use Classtools.
I would use this web tool in my classroom to reinforce learning, add variety to my teaching tools, and give my students something fun to do in class. I especially like the option to go back to a game and change the questions and answers. See the educational game I created:
classtools.net/mob/quiz_64/Rhythm_Counting_Beats_0t5R3.htm
When searching for web tools I try to put myself into the role of a teacher. This past week, as I navigated through websites, I asked myself, "How would this help my students learn?" In the beginning, when I first started searching for webtools, I would Google search a topic and hope that something good pops up. At this point, however, I find myself more careful on my choices. I don't know how to make web searching easier. I seems the more I learn about the different types of web tools, it gets more difficult to choose.
Althea Rodrigues
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