The following web sites are designed to allow teachers to create online learning activities for students, such as word puzzles, hangman games, matching tasks, and much more.
What2Learn
http://www.what2learn.com
A site for creating interactive games and quizzes, and you cantrack student progress. This one allows you to create activities thatare visually interesting to look at. This is one of the few sites thatactually allows to ceate an account and then create accounts for yourstudents, so that you can track their progress on the learningactivities you have created over time. This site allows you to EMBED your activities in your own class web site.
StudyStack
http://www.studystack.com
Study Stack allows teachers and students to createflashcards, crossword puzzles, matching games, word searches, and other classicstudy games for any subject area. You can create a game using any type ofnumerical or text data. Once your data is in your account, you can use thatdata to create multiple games.
ProProfs
http://www.proprofs.com
Proprofs is a site that is very good at two things: Making interactive flash cards andcreating online quizzes for your students. Since you can use the StudyStack site above to create flashcards, we will look more at the QUIZ and TEST feature of ProProfs. This is a surprisingly robust testingsite, in which you can set the tests to be secure, set it to shuffle thequestions, and it allows you to view detailed reports of student results (itemanalysis). And of course it gradesthe test for you! NOTE: it will grade your multiple choicequestions and your short answer questions, but not your essay questions. This would also be a great site forcreating practice quizzes for students to practice in their own time from home. And you can embed your projects on your classroom web site!
Sharendipity-Education
http://www.sharendipity.com/education
Makes it possible for students and teachers to quickly create and share simple video games. Sharendipity's drag and drop creation tools can be used to create a game in as few as four steps. For new Sharendipityusers the tutorials provide clear directions and helpful game ideas.Games created on Sharendipity can be embedded in your blog or website.
Purpose Games
http://www.purposegames.com
Allows users to create custom games, share games, and playgames. There are two styles of games that you can create and play.The simpler of the two styles is a fairly basic multiple choice game.The other style uses images and maps on which players have to name theplaces represented by placemarks on the image or map. For an example, try this game about the skeletal system. Purpose Gamesgives game creators the option to make their games public or private.If you select the private option, only the people to whom you sendinvitations will be able to play your game. Check out the examples made by other teachers.
Memorize
http://memorize.com
Offers users the ability to create and study sets of flashcards. Memorize also gives users the option to create diagrams for studying. The user interface is intuitive. To study existing flashcard setsclick memorize on the homepage. To create your own flashcards click"create" on the homepage. Creating flashcards is a simple matter ofentering questions and answers into a chart. If you have a long set ofquestions and answers you can break up that set into multiple parts.
Vocabulary.com
http://www.vocabulary.com
This is a site where you and your students use pre-existingcontent, rather than create your own. The site is designed to help students develop their reading skills bydeveloping their vocabulary, particularly by helping them understand word rootsand how they are used. This siteis for upper elementary, middle school, high school, and adults.
SpellingCity
http://www.spellingcity.com
This is a great site to help your students learn to spelland learn the meanings of words. It is very simple to use, and very engaging for students. The site allows you to create spellinglists by using your own words. Once you have created a spelling list, students can engage in a varietyof learning activities with those words. Perhaps the most impressive feature of the site is that several of theactivities involve the computer speaking the words and speaking a sentence inwhich the words are used. When yousign up for an account here, you will get an email. You open that email and click the link to confirm it.
Class Tools
http://classtools.net
An excellentresource. Teachers and students can create lots of learning activitiesusing formats from popular 1980's arcade games.
Philologus
http://www.philologus.co.uk/index.php
Very similar to Class Tools. However, it uses morerecent television games shows as templates for teacher- and student-created exercises.
Just Crosswords
http://justcrosswords.com/create_custom_crossword.html
An easy way to create online crossword puzzles. No registration isrequired - just plug in the words and clues and the site hosts it foryou.
PuzzleMaker
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Lets you make a lot of different word games for print-out.
PlayKidsGames
http://www.playkidsgames.com
Teachers can use their own content for a variety of games, including Hangman.
APTE
http://www.apte.com/puzzles/index.cfm?action=dsp_createhome
You can create crosswords, as well as a number of other word games. Oneadvantage is that they can then either be played online or printedout. Here, too, you have to register.
Word Duck
http://wordduck.com
Has a cute version of online hangman for many user-created topics. Onceyou register for free you can also create a game using your own words.
Cramberry
http://cramberry.net/
One feature that makes Cramberry different from other flashcard services is it tracks which cards students answer correctly or incorrectly. This feature allows students to eliminate cards they know and focus on the ones they don't know.
CoboCards
http://www.cobocards.com/
This site will track results and also offers an option to save flashcards in a pdf format, allowing for off-line studying. Teachers can share flashcards with a private group, too. Video tutorials are available.
Muchobeets
http://www.muchobeets.com/
Students can create their own customized "stack" of flashcards. For students preparing for a general exam like the SAT, Muchobeets has a good collection of publicly shared vocabulary flashcards. The Muchobeetsservice is very easy to use. If you want to make your own flashcardssimply register with your email address and get started using the veryintuitive flashcard creation template. No registration is required ifyou want to use the publicly shared stacks of flashcards.
Knowtes
http://www.knowtes.com/
Knowtes users can build a deck of flashcards or browse through decks created by others. Knowteshas many decks of flashcards already made for educators to use forfree. The library of flashcards can be downloaded to use offline also.
My Study Bar
http://scottish-rscs.org.uk/newsfeed/?p=7264
MyStudyBar isa floating toolbar of free open source applications that can bedownloaded and then easily installed on a flash drive for use on anyWindows computer. In his introductory video overview, developer Craig Mill makes the important point that although these applications areintended primarily for learners with "literacy difficulties", the toolshave the potential to support ALL learners.
Popling
http://www.popling.net
Popling's motto is "Learning without Studying." Thiswebsite allows you to create virtual flash cards that pop up on a computerscreen every few minutes (teachers determine how often) while students work onthe computer. Classroom computers can be set up with Poplings about anysubject. As students are working on the computers they can also bepracticing math facts, vocabulary, geography, etc. These flash cards area great way for students to study without creating sets and sets of 3×5notecards.
Quizinator
http://www.quizinator.com/
Quizinator isa free service designed to make the process of creating quizzes, exams,and other printable activities a more efficient process for teachers. Quizinator acts as a storage bank for multiple choice, true/false, and free response questions. Quizinatorenables you to create a bank of your own questions or pick from theirquestions to create quizzes. If you create your own questions, you caninclude images in the question. To create a new quiz simply select thequestions you want to appear on your quiz and Quizinator will add them to it. When you've selected all the questions you want, Quizinator will format the quiz for printing.
Quiz-Tree
http://www.quiz-tree.com/index.html
Quiz-Tree provides a wide variety of free educational games and activities for students and teachers. Most of the Quiz-Tree games and activities are web-based.
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