New Kahoot! Feature Helps Those Below the Leaderboard

I've written in the past about how games like Kahoot! are very engaging for our students.  Students clamor to compete against one another and make it to the class leaderboard for all to see.

As much as I like these types of games, I can't help but think how frustrating it may be for those students that never get a chance to reach that leaderboard.

Enter the new feature for Kahoot!, the "Highest Climber!"

As you can see in the purple bar directly above, Kahoot! now notes which student has made the biggest climb in the game.  This motivates students to keep trying and get that recognition when the leaderboard may be so far off.

Kahoot! has a lot of competition out there now, with games like Quizizz and Quizalize entering the game-based learning area.  However, additions like this will help keep this relevant and more importantly, will help motivate all students!

Grammaropolis for Teaching Nouns

Students in my class have been thrilled about the new way I've taught them about nouns.  Since nouns are relatively a review concept to my students, I decided to try this new site that I had heard about on Twitter, Grammaropolis.

Watch the following introduction video about this great, video-based learning tool below.

The nouns section of this site is free.  After having students spend a couple of days on this during grammar, they've already begun to get this song in everyone's head.

If you like nouns, I suggest purchasing the rest of the lessons.  You and your students won't regret it!