#150: How to Make Your Lessons More Exciting

I'm sure many of you have heard of these, but I'll give you my favourites.

My number one favourite live quiz app is Blockit.

That's blockit.com.

So that's B-L-O-O-K-E-T if you've never used it.

You can go on there and you can search for question sets that people have created or you can create your own.

And I've got a little tip for you if you want to speed up the process.

If you...

If you go to Quizlet, which is another system you may have heard of, it's a flashcard system, you can actually upload questions into Quizlet using an ai generator so you can go to chat gpt for example and you can say create 30 questions for igcse chemistry at excel covering topic 3.1 and the the ai system the generative ai system will create the 30 questions and then you'll say i need to upload these into quizlet and you can upload them directly into Quizlet and it will make the question set for you and then what you can do is you can download the Quizlet question set I think as a CSV or something like that and then simply upload that into Blockit and the questions are ready made for you so you no longer need to type questions manually like you used to And I know that process I've just described of using the generative AI system sounds long and complicated, but it's actually very easy.

The whole process takes less than two or three minutes.

So, yes, I would definitely use live quiz apps.

I like Blockit.

Quizlet Live is brilliant if you want people to work in teams for example with Quizlet Live I usually play the game at least two times so that people move around a little bit lots of research supports the notion that when students move physically move as they are learning cognitive connections are created to a greater extent than if the students are not moving while they're learning.

So if you can get your students moving around the classroom, and I'll talk more about that in a moment, then that will greatly help your excitement and engagement and enjoyment of the lesson that your students experience.

So with the Quizlet, you want to get your students doing that maybe two times, three times if you've got time in your lesson.

Just to change things up, on Quizlet you can play the game as either term and definition or definition and term.

So once you've created your question set on Quizlet, which doesn't take long, again, you can use AI to do that.

Any AI system will do that for you.

You then click on a button called Quizlet Live, it's called, if you've never played it, Quizlet Live.

And it comes with its own music and it's really enjoyable.

The only downside of these live quiz apps is sometimes students will get kicked out of them or will lose their connection due to Wi-Fi issues or 5G issues or something like that.

If that happens, keep the flow going, get those students to help another student.

I find it very rarely happens.

If it does happen, it's one or two students maximum that lose a connection and you can always play the game again and get them to scan the QR code again.

On Quizlet now, when a student loses a connection, they can type in the game code and they can rejoin the team that they were in originally.

So it's getting better.