What2Learn

Bring the fun of the Winter Olympics to your lessons.

With the Winter Olympics in full swing, why not create an interactive learning game based on a skiing race? Students will be able to repeat the activity to improve their knowledge until they manage to answer all of the questions correctly and win the gold medal.

Any subject content can be added to this quiz game.

You can use our FREE learning game generator to make a range of interactive learning games such as ‘Downhill Racer’. The Flash-based games can be stored as a bookmark on your browser, linked to from another site, embedded into your own VLE or website or even added to the main content within What2Learn. The added advantage of this last option is that you will be able to see the scores your student get in this game.

Downhill racer Will you answer enough questions correctly to win the gold medal? Play a sample game Make your own game

Anybody can make a downhill racer quiz game – all your need to do is to supplpy eight questions and eight answers. The game will work best if the answers needed are very short – preferably one or two words long.

You can make lots of other types of educational games using our free game generator.

I recently came across Photo-Peach. This is a great tool for creating eye-catching photo slideshows which which be used to create a really effective focus for discussions in lessons. It is quick and easy to make an account and all you then need to do is start uploading the pictures you want in your slideshow.

You are given two options for how your slideshow is presented – story and spiral (see below). You are also given a range of ways of using the completed slideshows including code to embed it into your own blogs.

Sprial

Try clicking on one of the images!

Story

Using it in lessons

I created the spiral slideshow above on Photo-Peach for use at the start of an A’Level ICT project on ICT in Society. In turn students had to select one of the images (pressing on it to make it large and stop the rotation). They then had to talk about the image and how it represented a way in which ICT is impacting upon modern society.

Do you have any suggestions for how it could be used in lessons? Please let us know.

We recently received the following testimonial from our pilot project with Hertfordshire Local Authority’s ESTMA team. ESTMA is responsible for providing education to students who are unable to attend school due to medical reasons. We have been providing support to their tutors to help them bring the benefits of What2Learn to their students.

The What2Learn package is a super tool for ESTMA teachers.

It can be used with any age group, which makes it very useful for us. I have used it successfully with a Year 11 preparing for a higher GCSE Geography paper as a revision aid. It helped me re-engage an agressive very unhappy Year 10 student. Likewise I am currently using it with Year 6 pupils.

The IT element, the collecting credits for their own micon, and the suggestion that they are playing games ( whilst really working! ) is excellent.

I have not found a student who did not enjoy using the package. In contrast once introduced to it they frequently ask to use it again and again.

It is a very comprehensive package and covers most topic areas in each subject.

Used along side other materials and teaching I find this package a super addition.

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