Use Kahoot Better

The other day I was supporting a teacher who was using Kahoot as a review task. Gamifying learning can be a great way to get students interested in the lesson and this one had plenty of interest.

While the students were playing, I was standing in the back watching what was going on. This perspective allowed me to notice a few ways teachers might make Kahoot more fun and inclusive for students.

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Read questions for students - the text can be quite small

My eye sight is getting worse as I get older. And it was really hard to read the questions projected on the board. I think teachers can help students -- all students -- by reading out the questions and answers for them. This is a quick way to help those -- me! -- who have a hard time seeing.

Read the answers - for the same reason and the contrast is sometimes lacking (orange with white text)

Just like above, the answers were also a challenge to read for me. The text was small and sometimes the text was white on a yellow background. This made it e

Review the answer after seeing the correct answer

One strategy that could help students retain the information longer might be to discuss the answers after seeing the results. Instead of allowing the students to celebrate, OK, maybe a short celebration, spend some time discussing why the correct answer is correct.

Using Captions in Google Chrome

One question I heard the other day was about captions for a video. My idea was to upload it to YouTube and get the captions from there. But not all videos have them.

Another option is to use Live Captions in the Chrome browser [Chrome]. The advantage of using them in Chrome is that they can be used for any audio that is run through the browser. 

To start using them open Chrome

1. Go to Settings
2. Accessibility
3. Turn on Live Caption at the top of the list.

After they are enabled, the captions appear at the bottom of the screen in the middle. This can be a little busy and hard to read.

Fortunately, it is possible to move the textbox by simply dragging it to another position on the screen.

There are some tools here: a pin, something that looks like it makes the text box bigger, and an "x". The pin keeps the box from moving and the "x" closes the box, but for some reason (probably an extension) the middle button, that one that should be to make the box bigger, didn't work for me.

Chrome translations on an audio file in Google Drive is also very solid.

Live captions even work with audio files played through Google Drive

For more information, see the Google Support page: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/10538231?hl=en