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How to create an interactive game with Genial in class?

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Hi, everyone! Your lovely BP is back! 👻👻 An interesting and active class is often student-centered and interactive. Using games is one of the methods that can help students engaged and motivated. Genial is a powerful platform that provides over 1000 templates, which enable teachers to customize it as you go and create stunning visual content.  This blog will introduce you how to create an interactive game through Genial to make an enjoyable class. For convenience, here is the link https://genial.ly Step 1 Sign up and go to gamification section Choose one type of games you want to apply. In this blog I choose 'escape games' as an example. Step 2 Choose one game you are interested in and start to explore it I choose a game called 'FARM ESCAPE ROOM' for animal vocabulary teaching. Before you decide to use certain template, the very first thing I recommend is that you explore and play the game first from a students' view as presented below. Step 3 Click on 'USE TH...

How to conduct a kohoot game in classroom?

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 Hello, everyone! Your lovely BP is back! 👻👻 Last week, I displayed how to design a quiz through Kahoot as a teacher and have received positive response from you. Thank you guys! As promised, this blog will introduce how to conduct an interactive lesson by hosting the quiz live with students. Step 1 Go to your Kahoot library and click on the quiz to get started. Btw, you can also edit your quiz in case of any problems by clicking on the pencil sign. Step 2 Choose one mode to begin To make an interesting class, Kahoot offers various kinds of activity modes. Choose teacher-mode if you worry about classroom order; or choose student-led modes to provide more autonomy. Here I take classic mode as an example.  Step 3 Help your students to join the game Kahoot is user-friendly as it provides clear instructions for new users, but teachers are still responsible to guide students to enter the game. Since Kahoot is techonology-based, so a phone, an ipad or a laptop is of necessity to e...

How to design a quiz through Kahoot?

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 Hi everyone, your lovely BP is back ! 👻👻 Today I want to introduce a very useful and interesting  game-based  learning  platform, Kahoot ! It is quite powerful that it contains lots of functions and in this blog I want to display how we can design a quiz on Kahoot. Again, for convenience, here is the link  https://kahoot.com/schools-u/ . Step 1 Sign in and start by clicking on "create a Kahoot           Step 2 Choose a template or create by yourself Kahoot offers various kinds of templates which provides detailed instructions for new beginners. Step 3 Choose a beautiful theme to make your slides more attractive Kahoot provides plenty of colorful theme background for users. It really makes sense to young learners! But notice that some themes are free and some are included in premier. Step 4 Start to edit your question and answers Teachers are free to choose different question types in Kahoot. As is displayed in bloc...