{"id":1728,"date":"2012-06-12T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T22:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/beyond_instinct\/2012\/06\/arcade-gamequizflashcard-generator.html"},"modified":"2014-08-26T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:40:07","slug":"arcade-gamequizflashcard-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/2012\/06\/arcade-gamequizflashcard-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcade Game\/Quiz\/Flashcard Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I found <a title=\"arcade_weiwei\" href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/education-games-php\/quiz\">Arcade<\/a>, a\u00a0game\/quiz\/flashcard generator, I was very excited. Arcade is educational, simple, and it brings you and your students a lot of fun.\u00a0 You might feel like you are playing video games, but it is definitely more than just playing\u2014Arcade provides great exercises for language learning while brings different &#8220;flavors&#8221; to your classroom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few things about Arcade that stand out for me:<\/p>\n<p>1) <em>Targeted vocabulary\u00a0<\/em>You can create your own vocabulary list to better target the expected learning outcomes.<br \/>\n2) <i>Cost and simplicity\u00a0<\/i>The program is free and it is very easy to use. Because it is very simple, you may spend only a few minutes\u00a0creating a vocabulary game\/quiz\/flashcard.<br \/>\n3) <em>Variety of formats\u00a0<\/em>Giving one series of questions and answers, you have 5 different game formats to choose from\u2014matching pairs, wordshoot, flashcards, manic miner, and cannonball fun.<\/p>\n<p>Take vocabulary learning for example. When you have a list of words that you want to review with your students, simply put these words in the text box in Arcade. Separate each question from its answer with *, and start each question on a fresh line. And you may give this exercise a name; in this case, I simply put &#8220;French&#8221; as the name.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"width: 715px;height: 427px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/files\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"Untitled.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After you finish editing your list, click Play. You will see this page below. Note, the program requires you to have at least 10 questions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"width: 723px;height: 497px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/files\/Untitled1.png\" alt=\"Untitled1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think Matching Pairs, Wordshoot and Flashcards might be good for in-class uses because they are less time consuming, and students may explore Manic Miner and CannonBall Fun on their own after class. Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> When I found Arcade game\/quiz\/flashcard generator (http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/education-games-php\/quiz), I couldn&rsquo;t be more excited. Arcade is educational, simple, and it brings you and your students a lot of fun.&nbsp; You might feel like you are playing video games, but it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[46,53],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-languages","tag-online-resources","tag-virtual-classrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}