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BookWidgets functions as a comprehensive teaching and learning platform in conjunction with Google Classroom.
Here is a very brief overview of how some of the 'widgets' can be used in your classroom, as homework or as remote learning.
Once you have successfully signed up to BookWidgets you can begin exploring the range of widgets available for use in your lessons and remotely which come under the broad headings of:
Test & Review
Games
Pictures & Videos
Math
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Each of these categorises contains several widgets and each widget provides a different functionality.
The ‘Quiz’ widgets allows you to create formative and summative assessment activities which are similar to Google Forms but with a far greater range of question types.
Fill in the blanks activities allow complex concepts and extended pieces of writing to be structured for all students and in particular for those with additional needs. There are a range of formations including; typing in the missing word (with or without word bank) and dragging words from a word bank to the gap.
The ‘Games’ section contains a range of different activities which you can customise to your needs including:
Crosswords: Good for vocabulary recall and revision
Memory games: Good for matching exercises in maths or science. Can be text and images allowing identification of features.
Spot the difference: This is something I often use when studying complex physical processes and landforms where students have to identify differences in features and explain how these differences occurred.
To begin with BookWidgets comes with a one-month trial subscription with offers full functionality but unfortunately after this period a paid subscription is required. Price plans vary depending on whether it an individual or school subscription - Alan Barnes
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