Speaker 1: Hi, this is Russell Summer from teachertrainingvideos.com. Sorry I'm not in my lovely studio today. I'm doing this video from Poland. What I'm gonna focus on today is tools that really work well with technologies like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet. So what I'm really looking at is that when you're doing a live session, how can you get the students to do some different, more interesting activities so you're not always online teaching? And I'm gonna show you a great technology today, one that I've been really impressed with and I've been using recently in my sessions and I've found it really useful because it's added lots more interactivity into my lessons. Hope you like the video. As always, if you do, please like it. Please share it. Please, any comments, leave the comments below in the section below. And of course, join me on my YouTube channel. I think we're nearly up to 50,000 subscribers now. And of course, you can also join me at teachertrainingvideos.com. There's a newsletter that you can subscribe to if you wanna keep up with all the new videos and the webinars and the blog posts and the short courses I run. Okay, that's enough of an introduction. Let's get straight into it. Technologies that can support Zoom, Google Meet, and tools like MS Teams. Now I've got some examples of some games that I've been working with recently and I'm gonna show you one of them. This one was an example, one that I did with a group of students the other day. Let me just show it to you. I'm gonna click on Edit Content so you can see what I had to do. I simply wrote out some sentences, okay, with a keyword, or in this case, a sentence, and then they had to finish the sentence with a word. So it was just a matching activity. Now this could be words matching half a sentence, the word plus a definition. It could be anything, so it's just simply a way of doing a matching activity. So I created the activity. I clicked on Done. And then all I needed to do was to click on the Share button here and choose Set as an Assignment. I can make sure that the students have to enter their name. Okay, click on Start, and then I simply share this link with the students. And when the students click on that link, then they will be able to do the activity. Now I'm gonna show you exactly what the activity looks like. Remember, all you need to do is share that link in the chat window if you're using Zoom or Google Meet or Microsoft Teams. So I'm gonna log in here as a student. So all I have to do is write obviously that link in, just simply add that link. I'm gonna press Enter, and I will immediately come into the game. Now I have to write my name, so I'm just gonna put my name in there. I've already written it, Russell. And I click on Start. And now the game begins. And this game is really easy. All I need to do is to complete the sentences. So Mexico is part of Central America. The capital of Mexico is Mexico City. To the north of Mexico is the United States. Mexico has two coastlines. In Mexico, they speak Spanish. Really easy exercise. I'm just demonstrating it. Mexico used to be a Spanish colony. Okay, so simple as that. And then I submit my answers. And it immediately gives me feedback. So you can see how easy it is. There we are. And I can even check the answers or start and do the game again. Now, because it required my name, my teacher will also know that I completed the activity and exactly how long it took me and what score I got. And I'm gonna show you now what that looks like. So looking here, now logged in as a teacher again, I'm gonna click on My Results. And I can see recent activity that students have done. And I can see that someone's done the activity on Mexico. So I'm just gonna click on that. And it's actually gonna show me, especially this part down here is useful. It shows me the name of the student and tells me what their score is. So you can see how useful this technology is and how you can create these little fun, quick activities that kind of shift the students away from working all the time within Zoom. And it gives you kind of a bit of a break. It's great for sort of formative testing, just checking how much they've understood. So just coming back, let's have a quick look again, all the different activity types that we can create. We've got loads and loads of them. And if I look at my activities, I've got a few that I've already created and worked with. This is quite a useful one as well. This was a ranking one. Let me again show you first what I did. So in this particular activity, all I did was ask the students to rank in order from first to last. And this time it was based on the gross domestic product. Now again, this could be sentences. You've also got access to pictures as well. So again, you might have been doing say perhaps a lecture on gross domestic product, different countries, and you want to see if the students understood. So you can click on Done once you've made the activity. And then same thing again, you're going to click on Share. You're going to click on Student. You're going to require their name and then click on Start. Now again, all I would need to do is during my Zoom session, my Google Meet session, my Microsoft Team session, share this link. The students click on the link and do the activity. So let's quickly do this one just to see how it works. So let's imagine that I'm a student. Again, I'm going to paste in that link. I'm going to enter. Remember, I need to put my name. So again, I'm going to put Russell. This one says the richest countries. Okay, click on Start. And again, it's an activity that I've got to do. And again, this is quite a simple example. I could have included more. I could have had sentences here. I've got to drag and put these in order. But this could be a good way of checking whether or not the students have been understanding whatever you've been presenting. So USA first, China second, Germany third, United Kingdom fourth, Italy fifth, Spain sixth, and Latvia seventh. And then I submit my answers. ♪ Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ♪ Okay, very simple as that. Again, if we come back now and look at the teacher, the teacher will be told what the student did, how long it took them, et cetera. You can see what a great technology this is, what a useful technology it is for kind of formative assessment, quick checking, understanding. Now, I have absolutely nothing to do with WordWill at all. I don't have any kind of affiliate program with them or anything like that. Basically, you've got five free activities that you can do. If you click on your activities and you click here, you can edit any of your activities and then reuse them again. So you can keep using those five activities with different content all the time. Obviously, another possibility is to look into paying for WordWill that gives you access to many more game types. And of course, then you're not limited to the number of activities you use. I'm very impressed with it. I've been using it in a few sessions and I really like the fact that I can really create these quick and easy activities, but very quickly see what the students did and what scores they got. Okay, really hope you enjoyed that. Please come to teachertrainingvideos.com. Loads more technologies and free videos that you can access. Look at the content on the homepage or just click on any of the sections there at the top. If you wanna keep up with my work, the best thing that you can do really is sign up to the newsletter, that way you get updated with all the latest videos, the webinars, the blogs, the online courses that I'm running. And of course, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel. 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