February 14th, 2020

Hello there everybody!
How are you doing? Today’s Valentine’s day over here, but by the time you receive this, it will be May already. And you know what? You only have one more month to go until you’re done with school, then you’re on vacation (despite being on vacation though, are we ever REALLY finished with school though?)! You can do this! And for you TESL students, you may have JUST finished your Winter semester, and I hope it went amazingly well! If you are starting your summer classes: GOOD LUCK! You got this!

Anyways, this month, I’m yet again looking at a nice website/app which you can use to liven up your classroom!

I’m sure you’ve heard of this website before! It basically transforms your classroom into a game show, where your students need to reinvest their knowledge or to review their knowledge via a fun quiz which you would have created in advance. You can even invite students to create their own Kahoot quiz in order to help their friends out. That’s also a fun way to have them use their knowledge and their technology in order to create something nice.

The only thing with this is that you will need to have access to the Internet and to a projector or a smartboard which you would use to project the game and its questions. The students also need to have access to a smart device or a laptop in order to answer, and we all know the perils we risk by giving our students permission to use their smart devices… Speaking of which, I’m currently preparing to go into my first internship in a high school and I was wondering how you, teachers, handle it! Please tell me in the comments below!

You can also use a challenge mode which allows you to open the quiz online for the students and give them a URL or a code for the quiz. Then, once they are at home, they would have to access to the quiz via their own laptops or devices, and they would answer the questions on their own, and you wouldn’t need to project the quiz in class.

Because this is well-known by now, it may be too overused in the classroom, but personally, my students quite enjoy it when I take it out from time to time just to play on it for a little bit!

All right, I really hope you’re going to have fun with this!
Have a great day today! See you next time!
PV