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Transform your Classroom into a Game Show

by Diana Benner
written by Diana Benner

The ever popular TV game show Jeopardy can provide an enjoyable way of reviewing content with students. At a recent Google workshop, I divided participants into teams and we played the game. Immediately, the participants’ eyes lit up and everyone was actively learning together.

I created the Jeopardy game using Flippity. Flippity is a great service that offers a handful of templates for creating interactive games that you can use in the classroom. There are 11 tools that you can select from:

  • Flashcards
  • Quiz Show
  • Bingo
  • Hangman
  • Spelling Words
  • Random Picker
  • Mix and Match
  • Badge Tracker
  • Progress Indicator
  • MadLibs
  • Certificate Quiz

Each tool has a link to a demo page, so you can see it in action, and a link to the step-by-step instructions for the tool. In addition, each tool also has a Google Sheets template that you can make a copy of and then fill in with your own information.

Steps for Making Your Own Game Show

If you want to make your own Jeopardy quiz show, follow the steps below:

Step 1: Modify the Google Spreadsheet Template
• Make a copy of this template. (You’ll need to sign-in with your Google account.)
• Edit all the Quiz Show Questions (and answers and categories) to fit your content.
• Do not edit any cell with a blue background and don’t delete rows or columns.

Step 2: Publish Your Spreadsheet
• Go to File, Publish to the Web, and then click Publish.

Step 3: Get Your Flippity Link
• Click on the Get the Link Here tab of the template (at the bottom).
• Click on the Flippity.net link to test out your game.

Step 4: Bookmark, Share, and Play
• Make a shortcut or bookmark to get back to the game whenever you want to play.
• Share the game with your colleagues and have them try it out.
• Play the game with your students.

Flippity Add-On

This past November, the Flippity Add-on for Google Sheets became available. Now it is easier than ever to create games. With this add-on, even your students can create review games with Flippity.

To get the Flippity Add-On:
1. Open a new Google Sheet and click on the “Add-ons” menu.
2. Search for “Flippity” and click on the blue “Free” button to install the add-on.
3. Allow the add-on to connect to your Google account.
4. Go back to the Add-ons menu and click on Flippity–>Pick a Template.
5. After you select your template, your Google sheet is reformatted and you are ready to enter your data.

Conclusion

Flippity can be a great learning tool for students. I think it is a powerful and fun way for them to review content at home, too. The fact that they can use the review games on their phones and/or tablets makes Flippity even more appealing. Turn your classroom into a game show by giving it a try or by having your students give it a try! It’s certainly a fun way to prepare your students.

Please share your creations in the comments below and be sure to check out some of our upcoming Google events to extend your learning.

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Gleanings from the TCEA 2016 Convention (Google and More!)

by Lori Gracey
written by Lori Gracey

The following is a guest blog post by April Whitehead about things she learned during TCEA 2016. April serves as the District Instructional Technologist for Hamshire-Fannett ISD.

Tuesday

After attending “You Can’t Just Google It!” on Tuesday morning, I feel much more prepared to address copyright and Creative Commons during teacher professional development. As an instructional technologist, I train teachers on best practices for using digital resources, but I don’t go into great depth or detail. Basically, teachers hear “Make sure you cite your sources.  Don’t let students just Google an image and use it.  Use the “research tool in Google Docs.”  That’s about it.

Amy, Krista, and Shannon from Round Rock ISD mapped out their approach to teaching students and teachers about Creative Commons (CC). CC licenses provide a simple way for creators to label their work (whether it’s a photo, website, video, or presentation) so that others will know if it’s okay to share, remix, or reuse. Any picture or document that is published online is protected by copyright.  That’s so easy to forget! But, if you find a picture with a CC license, you can easily see if or how you can use it.

The Round Rock team shared great websites that help you find resources with CC licenses. For photos, Pixabay and Morguefile were great, but Unsplash was my absolute favorite!

Matt Lyons and William Jeffery shared some of my favorite new-to-me sites of TCEA 2016. Their #RevengeoftheMaps session showed just how versatile and fun digital maps are. Confluence.org for snapshots of latitude and longitude confluences, Geoguessr for a fun “guess where you are” game in Google Street View, and Gapminder for visualizing geographical data were some of the highlights. William shared a stupendous idea for using the My Maps in Google maps. He showed how students can build their own interactive map by dropping in markers and adding text, pictures, and even 360° YouTube videos! I can’t wait to try that with our teachers and students at HF.

Wednesday

I love going to sessions taught by Peggy Reimers from TCEA, and her “Just the Google Gravy” session was super fun, as I expected. She went over some cool Google tricks like “do a barrel roll” (Google it!) and the “Google a Day” search challenge. Flippity.net was the star of the session, in my opinion.

Flippity converts your Google sheet into all kinds of useful things. You can make flashcards or PD certificates. You can track digital badges for students. You can make a quiz that awards a certificate. You can make an awesome random name generator that also randomly groups students. I could have saved so much time if I had this when I taught middle school! As an instructional technologist, I’m definitely going to use it to make randomized groups for PD activities. The most fun Flippity tool was the Flippity quiz show generator. I had heard of this, but I’d never made time to investigate it. Peggy showed us how simple it is to edit the Flippity template to make a cute Jeopardy-style quiz show. This is another tool I’ll be adding to my tech PD sessions!

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