oodlu is a brand-new – and free to teachers and students – tool for creating and playing online learning games. Teachers can create many different formats of questions (see the first image below) and turn them into a...
Read MoreThe Library of Congress has funded four impressive-looking online tools to help teaching and learning with primary sources: Eagle Eye Citizen: Eagle Eye Citizen engages middle and high school students in solving...
Read MoreWord Tetris is a new version of the old game that could be fun for Intermediate and above English Language Learners. It’s simple, but it wouldn’t hurt to watch this short instructional video about how to play...
Read MoreThanks to blog reader Eric, I’ve learned about a new online geography game called Zoomtastic. In the game, you’re first shown a “close-in” shot of a section of a country, and then it gradually...
Read MoreTime for another mid-year ”The Best…” list. As usual, In order to make it on this list, games had to: * be accessible to English Language Learners. * provide exceptionally engaging content. * not provide access to other...
Read MoreThe New York Times has published Think Military Strikes Could Stop North Korea? Try It and See, which is probably the most frightening choose your own adventure “game” anyone will every “play.” It’s...
Read MoreChoose Your Own Adventure games often have to be careful balancing respecting the experiences of those who are being simulated and portraying it sensitively with a social conscious. The Waiting Game, produced by ProPublica,...
Read MoreBe George Washington: It’s Your Turn To Lead is a new online choose-your-own-adventure game from Mount Vernon. Players can choose various well-know scenarios where Washington had to deal with crises. Be aware that the...
Read MoreGoogle launched two online projects today. One is called Talk To Books, which doesn’t seem very useful to me, but I might be missing something. More intriguing, and certainly a lot more fun, is a word game called...
Read MoreFour years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful...
Read MoreFree Rice, the venerable online vocabulary game that is operated by the United Nations World Food Programme (and has been on The Best “Cause-Related” Online Learning Games forever) now lets teachers create virtual...
Read MoreThis is the fifth post in a new weekly series I’m creating that will highlight the Best “Best” lists in a particular topic I have posted over the years. The previous posts in this series were: “Best” Lists Of The Week: Tools For...
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