it4L

Steve showed me this useful little site which I guess he picked up at the Scottish Learning Festival (the picture on his blog posting gives me the clue!). It’s an interactive fruit machine, which enables you to put in all the options you want and then all you have to do is ‘pull the lever’ and it’ll spin and choose one for you. Useful for choosing a name - who’ll go next? who has to answer? who’ll be in the blue team? etc. Or you could put in a word, say an adjective, and pupils have to find a synonym or antonym, use it in a sentence or pair an object with it. Another possibility could be to input numbers and ask pupils to come up with 5 ways to get that number, or add 20 to the number etc etc. Very useful and good fun - any more suggestions?