ClassTools

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Submitted by: Tami Siewinski

Educating different types of learners on new content and keeping them interested and actively involved has always been challenging. I am constantly striving to find different ways to present the content for practice and implementation of the concepts. I think ClassTools will be great to use for educators who want to expand their options for learning and teaching their students. I originally started exploring the site for tools that I could use to create educational tools for my learners. However, after using the site, I also see the potential for educators to provide this to students to allow them to create their own flash-based study guides, tutorials, games and quizzes on any topic.

Class tools is a tool that allows educators to create their own flash videos, educational games, activities, Flash templates and diagrams in a Flash format. After they have been created, you can put them on a blog, wiki, website or anywhere on the Internet. This is a free tool that has been around for 10 years and was started in the UK by Russel Tarr, Russel is the Head of History at the International School of Toulouse in France.

There are 19 “most popular” templates that are easy to use, provide a great visual for the learner and encourage or require learner interaction. Class Tools could be used by the educator to create games and quizzes for the learner or the educator could have the learners create games to reinforce learned concepts.

I created a FlashCard game for wound characteristics in about 4 minutes. It was as easy as selecting your game.
 * Experimenting: **

Creating the questions and answers.



And playing the game. It was simple, fast and the tutorials are great.



The site seems to have an unlimited supply of samples. There are 31 categories of samples and actual games to choose from including Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Drama, Economics, English, ESL, Food Technology, Math, Music, Physics and many, many more. An educator could take any topic or curriculum and create a useful learning game or exercise. This link will take you to the sample page. []

This link will take you to a few of the samples of biology games that have been created by others that you can access. []

Overall, I found the site and content easy to use, change, edit and uploadp. If I can do it—anybody can do it! Video Tutorial: []

Screencast tutorial for saving your template: []

Arcade game generator template tutorial: []

Flashcard generator template & tutorial: []

Random Name/Word Picker template & tutorial: []

FAQ’s: []

Prioritize Your Factors template & tutorial: []