Have you ever had to help your students get to their favorite game because they can't read the title of the website in the bookmarks? This is something that happens in my classroom often. I find myself helping my students find the game they want to play and this wastes time that I could be spending with someone else. Tizmos will eliminate this altogether. Tizmos is basically a homepage with thumbnail pictures that you can click on and be taken directly to the website with out typing in a url or looking through bookmarked pages.
The only thing I didn't like about the site was the flashy advertisement banner at the bottom of the page. I think this may be a distraction to some of my students. Overall though this is a great find and I am excited about incorporating it into my classroom.
This is great and such a timesaver! All the "Teacher! Teacher!" cals may be to show you what they accomplished instead of to help them find where to go. It also seems like a good way to teach choices, since they will have different options and through process of elimination that can choose one instead of being forces to play something they don't necessarily want to. It's like a kid version of the igoogle page! Awesome idea, and I'll pass it along to my staff.
ReplyDeleteAshlee,
ReplyDeleteThis tool is ideal for young children especially for struggling readers. This is definitely a tool to be used as soon as possible in my classroom. This will save a lot of time. Thanks
JoAnn