Week 3 Reflection

January 27-Feb. 3rd

I learned about Zongle! I know it may seem like a little thing, but I've been on the hunt for a good educational game creation tool for a while.  The research says kids learn by gaming, why not make it educaitonal in nature?!  Zongle seems like a great tool for teachers to create game-based reviews...and I love the fact that they can be embedded within other websites.  I'll need to explore a bit to see if Zongle is built on HTML 5 or flash, as we're looking at 1:1 iPads down the road, but for now, I'm just excited to find any tool for creating edu games!  Thanks for sharing.  I did notice after playing four different variations of the same set of questions I still didn't have a badge awarded, and it sounded like I needed to get one awarded for this week...in the support section it seemed teachers had to award badges, so I'm hoping I'm waiting on you for the badge.  I also noticed that when I inititally signed up as a teacher account, I didn't get the same option to add the class code...in your directions it just says create an account, not a student account.  Maybe I could still join a class as a teacher, but I couldn't find any place to put in my class code...so I created a new student account and had no problems (Folkse).  Thanks!

As far as the text, one of the most useful things I discovered was the suggested background/foreground color contrast. I had no idea people were so drawn to the color yellow!  It's hard sometimes to see yellow text on a blue or green background as professional, but at least it's eye catching, yes?  And keeping your students (or teachers) from snoozing is worth getting out of your presentation color scheme comfort zone :)