ClassTools

Create free educational games, activities, and diagrams. Host them in your blog, website, or intranet. No sign-up, no passwords, no charge.  Burger Diagram Tool  View Lesson Ideas and Samples  Virtual Book Tool  Virtual Book Tool  Post It Tool These tools aid in the creation of visual tools for teaching and learning. They can be used by both the teacher and students. They are customizable for ones teaching, learning, and/or presentation purposes. If a file is not accessed over a 12-month period it will be deleted. The site owner claims that the site will be permanent. The author or the site hosts a related site that is approaching ten years in duration. 1. __Wordshoot__- The information prompter at the beginning of the creation process asks you to give ten inputs in order to create an arcade game. However, there are only eight items to "shoot" and this throws off the correct matching of questions and answers. There may not be a correct answer choice to shoot, which defeats the purpose of the game. In addition, the player is not given an option to move to the next question which may make the game frustrating for students. 2.__Manic Miner__- This game takes a huge amount of hand-eye coordination because the player uses all the arrow keys to move the "miner" around. This game did not give an option to move to next question either. The pace is fast and was even difficult for an adult to play; again probably frustrating a student trying to play. 3.__CannonBall Fun__- Unable to figure out how to make this game work. The object is to make the cannon balls land ON TOP of the correct answers, but the cannonballs don't bounce around the screen at all. If the player misses, the canonball goes off the screen. The cannonballs don't ricochet off the top walls either which would seemingly make them come back down and land on top of the answer. 4.__Flashcards__- The answer appeared on the first flashcard and the question appeared on the second one. This seemed backwards. Maybe by reversing the input section the flashcards would come up correctly.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">FREE
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Don't even have to sign up
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Easily accessible to all
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Easy to use
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Includes lesson ideas and examples for each tool
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Completed files can be saved, or embedded in blogs, wikis and/or websites
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Many already created templates to choose from
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Weaknesses **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Without training, it might be difficult for students and teachers to make the most of all of the different tools.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Sufficient time and practice is needed to create fully engaging tools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Opportunities **
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ideas for the Classroom **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teachers might use the **arcade game generator** or **flashcard maker** to use in actively guiding students through a review of recently studied concepts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The **hamburger tool** can be used to help students to visually work through the creation of an essay.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The **countdown timer** might be used to encourage students to pay attention to timeliness by giving them a visual representation of the time that is remaining for a project or task.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Post-its **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> might be used to allow students to label geographic regions on a map, parts of a body, or reading strategies that they use as they read a digital text.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The **Venn diagram** tool can provide visual help to the whole class, small groups, or pairs of students when making a comparison of two or three things.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The **animated book** tool is a powerful way for students to publish their writing.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Time lines **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> can be created and annotated using the time line tool. This allows for additional comments to be included that might not fit easily on a paper time line.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Random Name/Word Picker is a take on an old game show, Pyramids, where you are timed to give the definition or the word to your opponent. Great game for the elementary level.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dustbin game can be used as a game set up with groups, students stand at the board and rush up to put the answer in the right bin on time. Great for math or science vocabulary.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Post it (labeling game) great for putting capital with the right state, or factors with the correct number family.
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">A Few Bugs/Difficulites With Creating The Arcade Games: __**