BP9_2010043_Web2.0Tool3: classtools.net

Create Flash Games- Easily and For Free

Classtools.net is a game creation website that is easy to use and free. In fact, your don't even need to sign up to use it- just go, create and have fun!

According to WideOpenDoors.net (2007), gaming allows students to fail safely in order to succeed in the subject matter. Games infuse fun and engagement into learning, thereby helping students to learn even more.

I found classtools.net to be similar to Smartboard game templates, but I personally found classtools.net easier- and great for those of us without a Smartboard. It was very easy to navigate and create games and has samples and instructional videos to help get started. There are 19 templates

you can use. I have loosely divided them into the following categories, but can certainly be used in other ways:

Class Managers:

• Random Name Picker
• Countdown timer

Games/Quizzes

• Arcade games
• Dustbin
• Diamond 9
• Post it
• Jigsaw diagram
• Lights out

Writing/Organizing:

• Telescopic Topic
• Living Graph
• Timeline
• Fishbone
• Learning cycle
• Target
• Venn Diagram
• Hamburger
• Animated Book
• Priority Chart
• System Analyzer

Your games can be saved on their server, downloaded or even embedded in your webpage as HTML file or as a widget. Teachers can set up quiz games on their own website, blog or wiki, or use as a whole class activity to review, brainstorm, collaborate. Students can also use it to organize and analyze

writing or events. They can even create games that can be posted on the teacher’s wiki or website. As students become creators of the media, they are learning invaluable skills and becoming comfortable with even more technology that is an ever increasing part of our world.

WideOpenDoors (2007). Gaming in education. Retrieved April 25, 2010 from Web site: http://www.wideopendoors.net/educational_technology/gaming.html