One of the favourite tools that was shared during my university class was a Flash based version of the popular game show, Jeopardy. We talked about using it as a diagnostic tool or as a way to have students challenge their classmates during the research of a particular topic. It certainly isn’t something that you base an entire course on, but it’s nice to shake things up a bit. Paired with a SMARTBoard, it also helps students with their presentation skills.
These days, not all devices effectively use Flash anymore and so that opportunity is lost. Plus, if you created a game at home, you had to remember to bring the questions to school in order to use it! If there was an application that screamed for a web-based solution, this was it.
Enter Flipquiz.
Like so many things these days, there’s a free and a paid (pro) version. The free version has the features that you need to give it a fair shakedown.
Visit the site and try out the demo quiz that’s online. Six categories with five questions in each category.
If you’ve watched early evening television in the last 50 years, the presentation is so familiar.
Choose a category and a value…
I’ll take NBA Teams for 400…
I’ll buzz in with the answer “Utah”. A reveal shows the answer is true.
Selecting student responses can be done a number of ways – hands, call on a student, or I used to use those “That was easy” devices from Staples.
That’s about it!
You’re not going to use it daily – it would lose its lustre – but add it to your arsenal.
doug --- off the record 
Utah isn’t a city.
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