Do you use the advanced features in word wool do you realize for example that you can make a game
click a button and completely change it without even having to edit anything do you realize
for example some of the more game-based types of activities and the fact that you can use pictures
in word wall and do things like label activities in this video I'm going to take you through some
of the more advanced features I'm going to show you some real time saving devices and really open
up your eyes to the whole range of activities that are available in word wall really hope you like
the video and as always if you do please like it please share it please of course subscribe
to my YouTube channel and I'd love to know in the comments section which of these games you like the
best and if you don't know word wall watch this video that's on the screen now first just to take
you through word wall and then watch this video which is for more advanced users let's get started
so I train literally hundreds of teachers to work with word wall and a lot of them don't know how to
use the labelling tool or even I've ever tried it I like it because look at the way it works you've
got the words here on the left hand side and then what you've got to do is just drag the word
like this I really like this feature I think it's really well thought through
in terms of actually playing the game what I'm going to do in a minute show you how to create a
label one of the nice things about labels is that you can search for the images straight into word
wall once the students have done the activity they can click on submit and then it will tell them if
they got their answers wrong or right so let's have a look at how you create one of these games
so I'm going to click on create activity we're choosing this one here label
diagram and now what we're going to do is click on add picture that's the first thing you need to do
now the good thing here is that you're not limited to you can search for images on your
own computer if you want to by clicking over here but what I do is just click on and use the system
that's available now this is great this will be a really good example of what I mean let's just take
a nice simple picture of a computer that's got a little bit of variety in it we use this one here
double click on it to add the picture onto the screen and you'll see straight away that it's
put the first number here and I'm going to put that over here and then I'm going to write the
word mouse and then I'm going to add another label and this time I'm going to do screen
and again I'm going to drag that onto here the next one I'm gonna do is actually the computer
itself so I'll put computer and then number three will obviously go on here number four
we'll do keyboard so we're gonna write keyboards and again keyboard will come here and we'll do
one more we're going to call it the stand as you can see there's a stand in the picture so
we've just got five words nicely clearly labelled immediately done very quick very simple click on
done and the game is ready now just a reminder if you want to share this game with your students
then click on share click on set assignment click on start and then copy that link and the students
obviously you need to share that link with the students now just very quickly as well don't
forget to give it a title so I'm going to click on edit here and I'm going to just write computer
and then once I've done that click on done again and let's just quickly have a look at that game
so if we click on start you can see exactly how it's done and again I start to drag the words in
I really like this it's really well thought through I'm a huge fan of world war I so it's
an excellent technology I've really had a lot of success with random will I'll show you in a
minute how you create it but the idea is that the students are working in groups they spin
it lands on a question and then they have to answer that question now the great thing is
that perhaps they working in groups of three or four and they talk about that question once
they've all finished they click on eliminate that question disappears and then you can spin again
now I've had even success using this in breakout rooms now if you do it in breakout rooms you need
to share the random will with the students before they move into breakout rooms and then one of
them can share the random will on the screen and play the game with the rest of the group
really great and I love this ability to eliminate the question once you've discussed it
and then move on to the next question so great in class you can also do it with a big group of
students the students can be working in groups and the teacher can spin the will at the front
of the class and give the students say one minute or two minute to discuss the questions let's have
a look at how you make it it couldn't be simpler it really is a simple uh activity so the easiest
way to show me to show you sorry is just to simply click on edit content and you'll see I literally
in fact I need to hear class questions I never gave that a title but you can see I literally
just wrote the questions nothing else at all of course I can add another item here okay what
did you do yesterday okay so i can just add my questions simple as that click on done and the
game is immediately ready click on start and then you can work and as I said you can use this in
class just project the questions onto the screen you as the teacher play the game the students are
working in groups they see what question comes up and then they immediately discuss it fantastic so
simple so well thought through and I love the eliminate a lot of teachers don't realize that
you can do this next activity which is basically a gap feel again visually I really like it so
this is practice in the present simple and you just simply drag the correct word in
submit your answer and then it will move on to the next page so I got that one right straight
onto the next page if I put the wrong answer in submit my answer it gives me the wrong answer
it moves on to the next one uh okay so really nice but what we've got to learn to do is to add these
words and there's a couple of tricks to make this possible so let's have a quick look at how I make
this activity so the easiest thing to do here is to click on the edit button and you'll notice here
that what you do and I'm going to show you a little trick when you do this is that you write
a sentence and then you put the missing word and then you put the incorrect ones but the way it
works is really good and let me just give you a example so for example I'm gonna put I get up at
seven each morning and all I need to do is select that word and then click add and that
becomes the correct one and then I can add a couple of incorrect ones so I'm going to put I
got up okay and I'm going to put another incorrect word I'm going to put I got for example
we're just practicing the present simple and that is done I'll just do that one more time
so add another page write a sentence so for example um he likes eating cheese
sorry but I spell it right and then again same thing I select the word that I want to use as
the correct answer and then I need to click on add so that becomes one of the options and then
I need to simply click on the two possibly the wrong answers so I'm just adding in a couple of
examples here like so and that is done so that is the way that you do the gap feel
and now again and always the lovely thing is you can always go back to any activity that you've
created and just edit it just immediately and change it the way you want if you made a mistake
and then of course you can play the game okay so hopefully i've given you a few examples there i'm
going to show you some more i'm going to show you now a trick that i realize a lot of people don't
realize you can do in word all this is fantastic and if you use it effectively you can make
multiple games from one game so this is a real time saver and it will also encourage you to try
and use a whole variety of the activities available let me show you
this is another feature that a lot of teachers are not aware of and the best way for me to show
you this is to quickly play a game and then show you that the same game can be switched and done
completely differently so let's just have a quick look at this if I click here in this game as it is
at the moment all you need to do is to drag the word into the correct definition so for example
that one should go there as a simple example okay and then we've got here the Burj Khalifa
which is the highest building in the world so you would drag that one in now so very simple game
very quick to make what about if I came over here and used switch template and I'm going to change
this one to find the match so now it becomes a completely different game and let me show you how
it now works so I click here I've got the words as that comes along on the screen the word will come
along and I've got to very quickly find that word so I've instantly changed the form of the game
and a lot of people don't realize that you can do this so by just choosing a game and then clicking
over here on switch template you can totally change the way that the game's played and that
can add lots of variety to your lessons and to the types of activities that your students can do
so for example just to take that idea a little bit further let's just have a
look at a couple of other things let's do matching pairs so we're changing that game
about buildings into a matching pairs activity and again all we're doing is switching here
okay and then when we click we've got the great wall of china that's no good ancient temple no
Versailles palace protective wall now if I remember rightly that was that one now
and that one there so I've got my first one again simply by changing the template we can
play a completely different activity now the great thing about the fact that you can change the game
is that not only can you change the game but then you can save the new version so if we go back
again to this very simple activity we've got here where we're simply just dragging the words in what
I'm going to do is I'm going to click on show all I'm going to change this to a completely different
type of game so what I'm going to do in this one is I'm going to set it as
let's say for example I'm going to set it as a quiz so we're going to do this
one here it now becomes a quiz let's just quickly look at how the quiz looks
okay I simply choose a b c or d but not only that I'm going to click now on edit content okay
and I'm going to say duplicate the game so now I'm going to call this one copy of famous buildings
quiz and I've now got a completely new game all I've done is choose a different game type renamed
it and now all I need to do is click on done and that becomes a new game that I've got available
so not only can you switch games and to do that all you need to do is to click here
and don't forget you can click on show all and see many more games that you can switch
to but once you've done that what you can do is click on edit content and then actually save
that with a new title as a completely new game okay I've got one final special thing for you
that I really think is an eye opener and that is you can look at the features section which
shows you what other teachers have been doing and it is a real eye-opener because you suddenly
realize that with a bit of creativity and if you spend that little bit of extra time working with
world war you can work out loads of things that you can do particularly if you want to work with
higher level students a lot of people seem to think that word warning works with low level
students but look at some of the examples that i'm now going to show you one tip if
you really want to get good at working with world war is to go to the community because it stuns me
when i look at some of the activities that people have created um just number one people sometimes
ask me well can you use this in higher levels we'll look at this example here where we've got
words or definitions connected to space okay so you know pretty high level look at the language
here that we're using okay and obviously the idea is that you drag the word in to wherever you think
it's the correct one so that's a great example of a really well created activity this is another
really nice one the seasons where you have to drag the words in so it's cold and frosty that
would go in that box there um the days are getting warmer well i'm guessing that spring
so miss wolf goes swimming in the sea so obviously it's probably this has probably
been connected to some type of story that the teacher has told the students but i'm
just talking about the design of this and you can see really how effective it is so lots and lots of
really creative ideas and to find those just go to the community and have a look
at some of the things that other teachers have done and it always surprises me
the creativity of teachers and the types of activities that they've created this is a really
nice one for language teachers we all have trouble with the getting these um i always struggle these
in other languages as well you know first second third fourth fifth sixth etcetera really really
well done that as an activity and then so that the students can see the written version
so really worth looking now i'm going to come back now and show you a couple of other features
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