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Gamifying Your Classroom with Bee-Bots and Blue-Bots

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 What is a Bee bot? A bee bot is a simple robot that can operate on its own via Bluetooth (Blue bot) or by physically pressing the command buttons on the robot  (Beebot). The Blue bot is see-through; students can see wires and how the robot is built inside.  The Bluetooth can be used through an Android, iOs, Mac, or Microsoft device.  The bee bot has black and yellow colors outside (as a bee). In addition, this robot has lights that turn on when operating. Why should we consider integrating coding into our lessons?  TTS group - creator of the Bee bots and Blue bots- states that these robots are used to design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.   Some benefits we can experience using Beebots are:  Students engage, investigate, connect and communicate with one another  Students learn together  Students learn in a s...

Gamifying your Classroom with Google Slides: Multiple Choice Game

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Google Slides: Multiple Choice Game      Since the pandemic situation started, the need to create interactive lessons for the students has grown immensely. In a lapse from night time to daylight, we as instructors had to change our ways of teaching, such as teaching approaches and classroom settings. Today I will show you a step-by-step process to make an easy interactive multiple-choice game with your students. I will focus on Parts of the body topic. Yet, it will be helpful for any other topic you want to apply it with.  Step 1: Create a New Slides Presentation Create a new Slides presentation. The first thing you are going to do is to change the layout of your slides. Click on "Layout" and select the "Blank" slide option.  *Using a blank slide will help you see an empty canvas and have nothing to distract you or disturb you during your creation.  Step 2: Using the Explore Section to Add Images from the Web, Directly to your Slides     When wor...

Bitmoji Classrooms (Digital Interactive Classrooms)

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Bitmoji Classroom Click here if you want to access the Bitmoji Classroom.      While the need for parent-teacher-student communication keeps growing day by day. Innovation to ease this communication comes out every day. Interactive Classrooms is one tool that has grown over the past year due to the pandemic situation. Google Slides and Bitmoji have been merged to create what we call Bitmoji Classroom. The whole purpose of this tool is to unify all classroom digital tools and resources for students in one place. The classroom-style you create is recommended to be a digital copy of what your classroom would look like. This will give a sense of presence in the classroom to students. Parents are also benefited from this tool. They can have access and be up to date with what is happening in their child's classroom. This tool can be used by subject or by grade level. The administration team can also create one. What makes the difference from all other interactive classrooms i...