MAISD Tech Integration

Check out this podcast from Bruce Basinger that introduces the use of game shows to motivate students to learn. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire podcast, the script is provided on the page. In this podcast, he points to this web site that includes nine game templates created in PowerPoint. These include, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Twenty Questions, Guess The Covered Word (four block and vocabulary words), Hillsborough Squares (a.k.a. Hollywood Squares), Weakest Link and Concentation. What’s cool is that Basinger provides a couple of ideas that reduces the amount of time you need to create a show and involves the students. Once created, they can be used year and year with little or minor tweaking.