Is your school still using Windows PCs / laptops connected to interactive whiteboards or projectors?
If so, have you thought about using TaskMagic to create interactive activities like those below to use with the whole class or teams?
(Following on from this blog post)
Or, to look at it a different way...
A TaskMagic3 10 user licence is like MFL-focused interactive whiteboard software for a dept of up to 10 teachers (or share it outside the dept, why not?) for less than £25 per teacher.
AND that's a ONE-OFF payment. NOT a subscription.
AND it prints off a whole load of worksheets too.
(And because it isn't web-based, you don't need to rely on an internet connection :)
Links:
Making match-up games and activites for PCs and IWB
Making literacy and text-reconstruction resources based on texts
Making verb conjugation games for PC / IWB (and worksheets too)
Making picture and text match-up games for your IWB
Ready-made TaskMagic3 resources (for those who have TM3)
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What activities can you use to settle the class as soon as they come in?
How can you give them all something to focus on, so that when everybody is there, and you're ready to begin, you can get on with the lesson?
NB. The context for this blog post is a situation where students turn up to the class in drips and drabs, maybe because they've just had PE, or they're coming from different parts of the school, or they've just had lunch, or whatever. (I don't want to get into a discussion about whether or not we should make students line up outside the class until they are all present and silent, as that is not what this post is about.)
The suggestions below are based on using a projector or interactive whiteboard (IWB), and they are examples of things that you can just put up on the screen and leave there, requiring no interaction with the board or your computer until you are ready to move on.