11/25/14

In class today the teacher used the smart board for a new type of activity.  It was used with the entire class participating and working at the same time.  It was alphabet bingo.  The class had used the same activity yesterday but to learn math.  It seemed to be very popular, the game pronounced the sounds of the letters and students used the smart pen to select eh correct letter.  If the students were correct a small monster appeared in the space where the letter used to be, if they were incorrect a buzzer sounded.  Once five correct letters had been selected, in a row, and a bingo was formed, the game celebrated with music and the monsters danced.  The game then provided feedback on how many correct the class got and what their percentage of correct answers was.  The students seemed to really enjoy it and all of the little animations.  While the game was designed as an individual activity it worked great as a class activity.  The only limitation seemed to be others shouting out answers when it wasn’t their turn.  This hurts the chance for students to learn but this would just take patrolling of students talking.  It also moved on automatically so this made it hard to hear the sound at some points but there is a repeat button that restates the sound when pressed.