 Hey, I'm in Little Rock, Arkansas. I arrived today and I am Going over my presentation for tomorrow and I could actually use use a little help and some advice I'm mostly ready, but I thought I it would be a good way to review what I'm doing tomorrow by showing you so the workshop is for the Arkansas Transition Services, so Most educators coming tomorrow, I think we have about 25 will be special educators with a high school focus and so Let's see there. They even have a little little flyer there. There I am and The focus is or it's called do it yourself study aids winning websites and apps And I've presented this before and I'm always refreshing and trying to find better tools So I hope that maybe you have some suggestions for me as We go through because I can certainly add and change things this is just my keynote here and of course I introduce myself I Found some pictures of when I was a kid just the other weekend, and I thought this was funny I've always been a little geeky. I'm not sure the year on this picture, but If you look at the at the cake very closely, there is a computer on there So it's always always been I guess something I've been interested in there There's a there's that cake again, and then it was like another birthday and another Computer cake guess it was a thing when I was a kid But when we talk about making our own study aids, I think about all the things that kids make as A little board games and and such and I loved making those as a kid And there's certainly value in making them paper, but we have digital ways of doing things too This is just a little video of a Google search when you look up electrical quiz board, and I loved making these as a kid too You connect the the wires and if the light lights up, you know, you got it correct So Really everything goes around this dear Tony letter from I want to learn and I want to says I'm having trouble studying. What advice do you have for me and for the workshop we'll do a little introduction and This is cool using keynote. I have a built-in timer So here I'll go into play mode, and I just click and I have a timer right on my slide I bought this several years ago. I think it's keynote countdown timers or something But it's really just a movie that plays on my slide, but it's handy because I can have instructions on the screen and A timer going so it's all all right there Yes, so see this is just a video and I could I could trim it and and change it if I wanted to But my suggestion obviously for the day since our theme is games will be games And if I wasn't a teacher, I always wanted to be a game show host So this is right up my alley in the classroom. I hosted who wants to be a winner Because of course, I didn't have a million dollars to give away And I loved hosting game shows as a fifth grade teacher. I even had a disco ball Now I'd get out for for these special occasions. It was fun But my workshop tomorrow in Little Rock will really focus on apps web-based and an iPad-based Apps that students can use to make their own study aids whether they're games or flashcards But what I really want to show teachers are things that students can put their own content in and then use it to study so Some of our objectives tomorrow will be really to be inspired to bring games into the classroom Use a variety of websites and she's at least one tool you'll use right away in the school year so Anybody who who comes to one of my workshops always gets a sticker I bought this sticker printer years ago and it's handy to put a QR code on it Let's see. Here's my my my pile of stickers for tomorrow. I still have to update the website tonight. So if you happen to go there It's it'll it needs a little bit of an update, but it's pretty much ready So what I like to do with teachers is give them a chunk demonstrate a few different websites and then give them a chunk of time to work on Ones of their choosing that way if they are already familiar with a site or it just doesn't appeal to them They can work on a different one. So our first group that I'll go through starts pretty simple and that would be crossword labs calm and quiz lit calm and go conquer calm and I have some examples that will do live and then I will send out a link to everybody in the workshop so they can try it themselves and seeing how playing somebody else's puzzle is what that's like and then Diving into making their own crossword labs is it's pretty easy Where you just put on each line the word and then the definition and then you can generate a crossword like really easily It could be a PDF that you print, but you can fill it out right online So every time you make a crossword you get a URL that goes right to it so a big idea That I'm showing tomorrow is that really making your own study aids aids in your studying The person doing the most work is probably the person doing the most learning. So In the in the classroom Remember as a new teacher I was making all these great study guides and aids for my students and I was learning the fifth grade curriculum so well But I was spoon feeding my students later on I realized that having my students make their their learning aids and and Make what they could for their learning was just far more effective So we'll look at quiz lit a lot of people are familiar with quiz lit But if anybody tomorrow in my workshop is not they'll be really happy that they found it It's like YouTube for flash cards, but you can visualize the flash cards in different ways So that's nice, but the best part is that students could go in there and make their own flash cards And use that as a way to study. So a few things on quiz lit there. I really like In the iPad app, they've they've updated it. No, not super recently anymore But it used to be hard to do the scatter and now it's more like a matching game on an iPad even And that's been one of the challenges of planning this workshop and really any others is that when teachers come to them Some have Chromebooks some have iPads some just have smartphones some have Mac some have Windows Android Amazon fire and so trying to find things that could work on just about everything Is what I've been trying to do, but sometimes I'm not successful But quiz lit is one that works just about everywhere There is a plus and a teacher version if you wanted to pay a little bit more I love that the fees are affordable 15 dollars a year or 25 dollars a year. That's pretty nice Then there's go conquer which is really similar to quiz lit This just changes it up a little bit the flash cards are a little flashier This used to be called the exam time and I think exam time is a much better name than go conquer I don't know if what the story is behind that But I'll build an example one that I have in my in my notes here. I'll do one with the state abbreviations In when I was in high school and had a part-time job in Omaha I had to memorize all the two-letter state abbreviations because it was a telemarketing job a lot of those in Omaha and you'd they would quiz you and you had to know these two letter abbreviations So yeah, I thought that would be one to show and go conquer And then the teachers get that chunk of time to decide which of these three they want to do and then you can See I have my handy timer on here. I think 20 minutes will be good for that um, and then I just start and if they This will be what's on the screen Then this is fun. I incorporate this a lot. I have some quick tips. So when I play it, it even has its own three music Just as a way to make it a little special And my quick tip will be to use any kind of drawing app any kind of collage or imaging app And make something that you can make your desktop or lock screen wallpaper and whether it's something that you want to study or a schedule that you want to refer to often Or something you want to remember If you make that your wallpaper On your lock screen you see it every time you reach for your device. So it's something that Will stick with you And then that then I'll play this again and that was a quick tip So anyway tips are better with music After our break time we'll um talk about something called the Ikea effect Which there's a study where in fact we'll do a study on this where people who construct their own things or had A hand in constructing it value it more and and that's something we know as teachers But building your own stuff build builds feeling of pride and competence and of ownership Just to encourage people tomorrow that yeah, there's a lot of value in students making their own So this is this is the part where uh, I could use some of your help And I have some time for teachers to choose some game makers And I know everything else I showed was kind of a game maker too But these are game makers in particular Zondall.com is one where You put in some content and then you can play it in like I don't know like two dozen different kinds of games that you can Play you get a question right and you get to open the egg get a question right you get to fire a cannon and There's something similar to Class tools net has just the same it's very similar where you put in some Information and then you can visualize that as a different kind of game So my so my theme for this section are really game makers you you put in content and then it can turn it into a game So is anybody watching have any other Ideas of what I might include in this section Got I got one heart. So that's good Well, if you think of something Uh, put it put it in the comments because I've got I've got a couple question marks in there and I have some ideas I might include Now kahoot, that's a great idea And I have that as as the end as some whole class games You know as now as you say that like I could move that to the spot Um, I wanted Yeah, you got you got me thinking now So maybe I'm gonna write that down on my little hotel notepad here possibly kahoot in this spot I had been saving it to the end as a review of all the things that we that we learned tomorrow Some of the things I was looking at a tiny tap Tiny tap you can make these little games. It seems like they're More elementary and so it's going to be more high schoolish Teachers tomorrow. This may not be the best, but um tiny tap Forget list got me thinking Tiny tap you have to create on an ios or android device, but you can play on the web or any other kind of device and there's You can make up these little quizzes. You can bring in your own images to do it. So I think tiny tap might make my list for For this I just The teacher's coming tomorrow. Some might just have a chromebook and that's it Though I guess chances are they might have a smartphone. They could load the the tiny tap app on I just wish you could create in the browser too. Then This would be great The thing I was thinking of including was jeopardy rocks This one's jeopardy dot rocks not jeopardy rocks dot com jeopardy dot R-o-c-k-s instead of comm it's like a new top level domain name But this one you can you can build it a game in minutes and Kind of a jeopardy style game that still kind of goes what I'm with what I'm doing at the end of the day Which are like whole class games Still students could create a game and then have their teacher or classmates or parents play it That's a possibility here kind of like kahoot possibly going in this spot So those are those are the two possibilities. I have open in my web browser right now to possibly put there So any other ideas? I'd love to hear them then um There are some neat videos here from the fun theory in this video And there's really no sound here Somebody said my parents guys living in people Can't give hearts. You know what? I think I might have accidentally left my periscope on that people can't Only people I follow can comment that I was messing with it and I didn't mean to start it that way That's probably why I'm not getting as many comments. I thought Um feel free to I know feel free to tweet me too if you have ideas. So I I'm really glad that Um I saw that tweet um So anyway, the fun theory is kind of taking things that are kind of boring or every day and making them a little more exciting so, uh Here they just made musical steps and it made people take the steps instead of the escalator and My my point here and I I I've used these videos before but I saw kori or raza do this at tech camp last week is Is that really it's about making something that might be boring exciting And so, you know, there are things that we got to study things that students are going to have to know And that's why using games can be helpful Um, there's another one where they they make this trash can And they rig it that when you throw something in there, it sounds like it drops For a really long time. So they call it a bottomless garbage can And they rig it out so when you throw something in there, it just sounds like it's going a really really long way So again an example of you know make something that might be boring exciting then the afternoon I um I'll talk about my app stick around because obviously there's some game making there The limitation is again, it it chromebook people can't use it. It's an ipad only thing laptop people so Then stick around has there's kind of two apps that are very similar. And so in the afternoon Oh, I see uh making vocabulary spelling city games that could be an idea That's a good idea. I'm writing writing that down on my hotel Pad and paper spelling city that could go on my questionnaire. Thank you. Um, anyway with brain rush you can have a Upload an image and then have hotspots so students match you can also have I put sequencing put words in in a certain order And they they call it adaptive learning games because The uh it it you get something wrong and that question comes back to taunt you again and again And similar to that is purpose games and purpose games just they're in a new beta And so this screenshots outdated. I got I have to replace it It works on an ipad now and it didn't before And so it's similar you upload an image and then you put hotspots on there and you see how fast you can match everything up It doesn't have the adaptive part like brain rush But sometimes that adaptive this you get the same questions over and over again Guess monotonous so purpose games. I think is great and they're really easy to design to upload and design So I really like that too Then um at the end We'll we'll do a kahoot and a quizzes Um quiz is there's two z's at the end of quizzes is really similar to kahoot I mean look even the website looks like kahoot's website But instead of the whole class doing it at the exact same time and students having to Look at their device and look at the screen and to be able to answer this one has everything on the student screen The the question the picture the responses And everybody doesn't have to do it at the exact same time, but it still compares all the scores So that's kind of neat too And then um, I'll end with sketch party tv And I'll play this but I won't have the audio with sketch party tv You can use an apple tv or connected Yeah, I'm not blocking anybody on periscope. I haven't I haven't blocked a single person I just started this periscope with the wrong setting I need to just need to follow more people too, but I'm going to turn this setting off for my next periscope Because it's it's awful that only a couple people can give me hearts. That's that's sad. It's the whole reason I do this, right? So Um with sketch party tv, this is the most fun. I've ever had with my family. It's a great way to review vocabulary Is you put in words and then it um shows the person on the ipad what they're supposed to draw Everybody else looks up at the screen And it keeps points and up on the screen. Obviously it doesn't give you the hint of What you're supposed to do or what the word is. Hey, hi, george Uh, thanks for dropping by So so that sketch party tv will play a little bit of that and then At at the end we like I think our day will go by fast. It's just nine to three tomorrow And before the evaluation sometimes I like to show this slide and uh, it's funny It says, you know anything else you want to say and this is not this is not one that my students have said This is just from the internet But if I had one hour to live I'd spend it in this class because it feels like an eternity Hopefully the teachers of my workshop tomorrow won't feel that way, but it's always kind of funny to put there Oh, jean, you're able to give hearts, but um, but not comment. Okay, that's good. At least at least there are hearts there So so that's kind of my plan for tomorrow um Again, I know some of you can't comment because I have the wrong setting on this on this periscope, but Okay, there you go. Thanks for all those those hearts and reading the twitter messages coming through since I again had that Had that wrong setting on there Any other websites that that you know of send them my way that that you can make your own study aids. This has been Um It's something I've been keeping track and bookmarking sites I'm always on the lookout because that's really where stick around came from my app is that I want students to be able to build Their own stuff and learn while and after doing it Um, I'll show you I'll end here real quick with with why I have the wrong setting on my periscope Um, I've I've spent a few hours actually several hours making this infographic So if you go to learning in hand.com you can see it and it's about periscope And I was telling people how they could limit comments and to test it out I had pressed the button and I forgot to not press it But at learning in hand.com you it's just an infographic called the scoop on periscope And it has some of the basics But um, what I think is probably the best part of this whole thing It are my tips at the end now for possibly using a microphone Where to keep the focus on the screen. I might do a whole another periscope just on on this Um, because I if you know me I love making infographics and I love the noun project That's where I get all of these icons that you see They're They're really great. Yeah All right, so again, if you uh come across any find me on twitter or at learning in hand.com So thanks for joining me and I'll see you later