There are many gaming applications out there for teachers, instructors, and families that require subscriptions and fees. These options below present some great ways to create a game without paying a monthly subscription cost!
Google Suite
There are so many ways to simply take advantage of Google Suite in order to gamify a lesson. The following offers a list of different applications within Google Suite that can be used in a variety of
ways!
Google Sites: Easily turn free web pages into escape rooms, murder mystery games, virtual scavenger hunts, and other team building activities. Buttons or other pages can lead viewers to other places, hints, or clues to continue to game.
Google Slides: Create slides with the ability to design a specific location for the viewer to experience such as a virtual museum tour, virtual gallery tour, virtual historical tour, a "choose-your-own-adventure" game, or a learner choice activity.
Google Jamboard: Create boards where viewers can manipulate shapes and add their own comments on top of images in a group setting. This application is great for icebreakers, visual puzzles, word puzzles, riddles, quick checks, and exit slips.
Flippity
This free, fun application allows the user to create randomized groups even for non-virtual games. Create virtual board games, trivia-style games, bingo games and more! This type of application is great for trivia games, reviewing content knowledge, team building activities, and even competition style games with live group leaderboards!
Kahoot
This free site has received some recent major upgrades within the past couple of years. There are seemingly an infinite amount of choices for games already made and that users can select and modify. If you are willing to pay added costs, Kahoot now offers a subscription for families (great for homeschooling) as well as Kahoot 360 Pro membership which is for the purposes of creating more engaging presentations that connect to major platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, and Zoom.
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