GBL & Gamification in your English lessons

Game-based learning & gamification in your English lessons

Virginia Espinosa

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Tools & Apps

Bookwidgets

Baamboozle

Brainscape

Classmarker

Educaplay

Cerebriti

Google Forms / Quizzes

ISL Collective

Kahoot

Microsoft Forms / Quizzes

Proprofs

Onlinequizcreator

Quizizz

Quizlet

Question Form

Tools & Apps

SuperTeacherTools

Socrative

Trivinet

Bingo Baker

Typeform

Wordwall

Learning Apps

Liveworksheets

Genial.ly

Stopots

SYMBALOO

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Baamboozle

• Jeopardy-based game tool
• Easy to use
• Create games or use the existing ones
• Make game public or private
• Assign different point values for each question
• Use as warm up, energizer, to review, to introduce a new topic, as assessment tool...
• Study mode to revise before the game
• Students play in teams
• Quiz mode (with no power-ups) , Classic mode (with power-ups) and Classic Jr. (classic with simple scoring).

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Bookwidgets

• More than 40 digital exercise templates: crosswords, riddles, bingo sheets, memory games,..
• Interactive quizzes or worksheets
• Create material suitable for your class
• Evaluate, grade and provide feedback to your students
• Many exercises are automatically graded
• Grades are sent to your learning system’s gradebook
• Quickly determine problem areas or students that need extra help
• It works on smartphones, tablets, computers and iBooks
• It works with Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas or Schoology

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Brainscape

• Brainscape allows trainers to organize "decks", add images & sounds, and collaborate with multiple editors for real-time content deployment

• Brainscape helps you identify & quantify your mistakes as quickly as possible, so that you can turn them into your greatest strengths

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Cerebriti

• Ideal for game-based learning
• It reinforces cooperative learning
• Easy to manage
• Use existing games or create your own ones
• Motivating
• It provides different levels and topics
• It measures students' progress
• Avatars, badges and challenges may be included

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Classmarker

• ClassMarker is a secure, professional web-based Quiz maker is an easy-to-use, customizable online testing solution for business, training & educational assessment with Tests & Quizzes graded instantly.

• ClassMarker's Quiz Maker allows you to embed your tests in your website.

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Educaplay

• Platform to create multimedia teaching activities
• Complete gamification tool
• Play & Learn or create your own activities
• Different activities: ABC Games, crosswords, dialogues, dictations, fill the blanks, map quizzes, matching games, riddles, anagrams, word searches….
• Get results from your students
• Groups can be created
• Activities can be embedded on websites and blogs
• Activities can be exported (e.g. Moodle, Google Classroom)

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Google Forms / Quizzes

• Easy to create
• Different types of tests: short answers, paragraphs, multiple choice, checkboxes, drop down, linear scale, multiple choice grid, tick box grid
• Files can be uploaded, date & time can be set
• Spreadsheets are created with the answers
• It can be graded with “Make a Quiz” or with a script (Flubaroo)
• They can be shared with students by email
• They can be embedded in blogs

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ISL Collective

• Worksheets, activities and video lessons for distance learning, home learning and printables for physical classrooms
• Grammar, vocabulary and reading comprehension worksheets for all levels and all student types
• Powerpoint on different grammar and vocabulary topics as well as reading comprehension ones for all levels and all student types
• Video lessons built on interactive popup video quizzes: generate vocabulary and grammar quizzes or make your own custom quiz (YouTube or Vimeo)

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Kahoot

• Popular game-based learning tool to use at school, work or home
• Mobile-device friendly
• Create your own kahoot
• Choose from millions of ready-to-play games
• Quizzes, true / false, polls, slides, puzzles
• Play live in class
• Classic mode: each student joins and answers every question individually on their own device, competing fo top score against all of their peers
• Team mode, several students share a device to discuss and submit an answer together.
• Share student-paced challenges
• Reports are provided to assess learning
• There is also an App

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Microsoft Forms / Quizzes

• Create surveys, quizzes, and polls, invite others to respond to it using almost any web browser or mobile device

• Real-time results as they're submitted, use built-in analytics to evaluate responses, and export results to Excel for additional analysis or grading

• They can be shared with students by email

• They can be embedded in blogs

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Onlinequizcreator

• Tool with multiple uses: exams, courses, assessments and quizzes
• Online exams used a lot for certification and evaluation purposes
• Create your own educational course
• Assessments or personality type quizzes
• Quizzes: Time-based games in which you quickly have to answer as many correct questions as possible.
• They can be embedded on websites and blogs

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ProProfs

• Brain Games
• Use ready-made activities
• Different activities can be created: puzzles, word games, word searches, crosswords, jigsaws
• No track for the teacher but for keeping students’ certificates
• Activities can be embedded on websites, blogs…
• There is an App for ProProfs Quizzes

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Question Form

• Easy tool to create, publish and analyse online surveys
• Create powerful online surveys
• The surveys can be integrated on the web page or blog
• Surveys can be sent via email
• Survey responses can be tracked in real time
• Data can be exported to a spreadsheet

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Quizizz

• Free fun multiplayer classroom review tool
• Multi-platform support
• Easy to create quizzes
• Fun to use avatars, leaderboards, themes, music and memes
• It works from Google Classroom
• Public question library
• Reports at the end of each quiz.
• Teleport (pick single questions from any public quiz to your quiz)
• Millions of public quizzes
• There is also an App

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Quizlet

• Flashcards for vocabulary (Learn; spelling & pronunciation)
• Matching games
• Writing
• Exercises (true/false; multiple choice; image-concept; concept-definition; spelling)
• Teachers can create classrooms (students enrol as members)
• Quizlet live game
• Teachers can see the results and best records
• There is also an App

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Socrative

• Easy to use
• Formative assessment tool that helps teachers and learners to assess understanding and progress in real time in class through the use of quizzes, questions and reflection questions.
• Teachers click on a feature to launch it in class
• Teachers type in the "room name"
• Answers are recorded and can be viewed at once
• There is an App for teachers and one for students

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Super Teacher Tools

• It provides free programs to assist teachers or anyone else looking for fun review/training/classroom management materials.
• There are different options:
• Jeopardy-style review game
• Multiplayer rocket review game
• Who wants to be a millionaire?
• Speed Match
• Seating chart maker
• Group maker
• Random name generator
• Classroom timer
• Classroom countdown
• Interactive Dice simulator
• Online spinner

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Trivinet

• This tool is a free online trivia
• You can play without registering
• You can play as a registered user
• As teaching resource to play with your students so they can learn while playing
• Groups can be created to play with your students
• You can get access to users' position, points, questions answered and right answers

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Typeform

• Online platform to compile and share information
• To create surveys, questionnaires, forms, polls, invitations...
• To create quizzes
• Get inspired, pick a template and make it your own
• Get scores and answers on a spreadsheet
• It can be embedded on a website or blog

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Wordwall

• Wordwall can be used to create both interactive and printable activities
• Interactives are played on any web-enabled device, like a computer, tablet, phone or interactive whiteboard. They can be played individually by students, or be teacher-led with students taking turns at the front of the class
• Wordwall activities can be placed on another website
• Printables can printed out directly or downloaded as a PDF file. They can be used as a companion to the interactive or as stand-alone activities
• Free activities: Match Up, Open the Box, Ramdon Cards, Unjumble, Gameshow Quiz, Maze Chase, Quiz, Group Sort, Matching Pairs, Anagrams, Wordsearch, True or False, Ramdon Wheel, Find the match, Missing Word, Labelled diagram, Whack-a-Mole and Flip Tiles

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Bingo Baker

• Bingo Baker is a simple online tool.
• Create your own bingo cards with words and images, or choose from hundreds of existing cards.
• The created game can be played in two ways: on your computer or on printed worksheets.
• It is not necessary to create a user account to create a game.
• When using web tool (Bingo Baker) without an account, you can only create public games that anyone can use.

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Genial.ly

• Genially is a web-based tool, available in a free version, that allows you to create:
• Presentations
• Infographics
• Interactive images
• Video presentations
• Guides
• Training materials
• Gamification
• Use this tool to present content to your students in a fun way.
• Offer it to your students as a visual aid during their oral presentations.

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Learning Apps

• Genially is a web-based tool, available in a free version, that allows you to create:
• Presentations
• Infographics
• Interactive images
• Video presentations
• Guides
• Training materials
• Gamification
• Use this tool to present content to your students in a fun way.
• Offer it to your students as a visual aid during their oral presentations.

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Liveworksheets

• Genially is a web-based tool, available in a free version, that allows you to create:
• Presentations
• Infographics
• Interactive images
• Video presentations
• Guides
• Training materials
• Gamification
• Use this tool to present content to your students in a fun way.
• Offer it to your students as a visual aid during their oral presentations.

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Stopots

• Genially is a web-based tool, available in a free version, that allows you to create:
• Presentations
• Infographics
• Interactive images
• Video presentations
• Guides
• Training materials
• Gamification
• Use this tool to present content to your students in a fun way.
• Offer it to your students as a visual aid during their oral presentations.

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Virginia Espinosa

Virginia Espinosa

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