WORDWALL

Description of the tool

Wordwall is one of the easiest ways to create teachers’ own teaching resources.
Teachers can make custom activities for their own classrooms such as quizzes, match ups, word games, and much more.
It can be used to create both interactive and printable activities. Most of their templates are available in both an interactive and a printable version.
Interactives are played on any web-enabled device, like a computer, tablet, phone or interactive whiteboard. They can be played individually by students, or be teacher-led with students taking turns at the front of the class.
Printables can be printed out directly or downloaded as a PDF file. They can be used as a companion to the interactive or as stand-alone activities.

After the enrollment has been completed, click on the “Create Activity” button.
There are basically just three-easy-steps that you should follow to create an activity in Wordwall: Pick a template, enter content and play.
All activities are initially private when you create them.
To share it, click the “Share” button on the activity page.
Then press “Make Public” and you'll have the option to add tags for age, subject and topic.
Your resources will be easier for other teachers to find if you select these.
You'll get a unique link for your activity, which can be emailed or posted on social media.

Once you've created an activity, you can switch it to a different template with a single click. This saves you time and is great for differentiation and reinforcement.
For example, if you created a Match activity based on names of shapes, you could turn it into a Crossword with the same shape names.
In the same way it can turn your resource into a Quiz or a Wordsearch and many more possibilities, too.

Interactives can be presented in different themes. Each theme changes the look and feel with different graphics, fonts, and sounds.
You'll also find further options to set a timer or change the gameplay.
The printables have options, too. For example, you can change the font, or print multiple copies per page.

Any activity you create can be made public. This allows you to share its activity page link via email, on social media or via other means. It also allows other teachers to find the activity in this web tool’s “community” search results, play it, and build upon it.
If you prefer, you can keep activities private, which means only you can access them.

Wordwall is quite suitable and effective for vocabulary practice.
This web tool has variable templates which include familiar classics like Quiz and Crossword.
It also has arcade style games like Maze Chase and Airplane which will make vocabulary teaching, learning and practicing fun and attractive both for the teachers and students.

With the help of the templates such as Quiz, True or False and Unjumble will be quite beneficial and affective in practicing the grammar rules, and structures.

This web tool provides some printables to support the teachers from the point of classroom management.
It has ready seating plans which can be prepared very easily by a teacher according to his/her students.
In order to set the rules of the class on a very first day and then practice these rules with the students, Random Wheel is a great tool to use.

Wordwall activities can be used as student-completed assignments. When a teacher sets an assignment, students are directed to that one activity without the distraction of visiting the main activity page.
This feature can be used in class where students have access to their own devices, or as a way of setting homework.
Each student's results are recorded and made available to the teacher.
Assignments provide your students with a more focused way of completing the task, without lots of distracting options aimed at teachers. They also allow you to track the students' results.