Jeopardy Games

       Today we learned how to use a free online tool called Jeopardy Labs to make Jeopardy games. This is MUCH easier to use than PowerPoint Jeopardy templates, and you can even edit it. It is a very useful tool in the classroom to use for review games because most kids like Jeopardy. We also learned how to use dirpy to download sound from videos to PowerPoint Jeopardy games. We found out that PowerPoint doesn't like flv file types, so we couldn't download videos today, but there are ways to convert the file. The online version is easier to use than PowerPoint templates, but obviously, you need Internet to use it, and you can do add more cool stuff to PowerPoint templates, like video, graphics, and sound.
      We also started editing our websites to make them online portfolios. We started by creating a page for each WV Teacher Standard. We will continue to add to it until we have a portfolio with a variety of links, artifacts, and information that demonstrate specifically how we have met the standards and will be useful to us later in college and in our careers as teachers.

1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

This activity can help me meet Standard 1 c. because now I can use online Jeopardy templates or PowerPoint to create learning games and review games that will motivate students to learn. Games like Jeopardy can also let me (and the students) know how well they are comprehending the material.