Tuesday, April 10, 2018 / 25 Nissan 5778
The Technology: Classtools
by Debbie Harris
Edited by Ann D. Koffsky
Classtools is a free website that offers some useful tools you can use to add pizazz to your lessons.
Here are some of my favorites features on the site:
- The SMS text generator page lets you easily create an image of a phone displaying bubbles with SMS texts of your choice. Once you save it, you can print it as a single image onto paper, or you can share a unique URL with your students for them to see your pretend text dialogue appear line by line.
- The Fakebook page allows you to create a fake Facebook profile page.
- The Movietext page takes the text you enter, and uses it to create a StarWars-like movie intro.
- Fruit Machine is a random name or word generator. You enter a list of words and then click to start a slot machine type animation that spins around and then randomly stops on a word.
In Your Classroom
- Ask students to use the SMS text gernerator to create an imagined text conversation between two biblical characters.
- Students can use the fakebook page to design a profile page for a historical figure or hero.
- Use Movitext to introduce a new topic, provide writing prompts or even display students’ names at the beginning of the school year.
- Try out Fruit Machine the next time you need to randomly select a student for a task, or organize teams.
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