In yesterday's lesson, I came across a small but useful online wordsearch creator called Armored Penguin, which I feel will be very useful for teachers to plan a starter for the class. I like the way it doesn't just provide you with already-made puzzles to print off but instead gives the user a simple tool needed to create their own.
As pupils progress with their ICT studies, they may come across words that will be important to them in their studies and they may be able to memorize these key terms easily through an engaging and enjoyable learning method. One of the most difficult things about being a teacher I feel will be getting pupils to revise and I feel that it's vital to get any valid information across to the youngsters in any way possible and word-searches certainly get people thinking constantly of particular words.
Should the computer equipment not work, wordsearches will be one thing the pupils could be getting on with while the teaching finds other work for them to do and since the teacher can implement any word he/she wants into the puzzle, the teacher can set up puzzles for each unit as the course progresses, giving the pupils a fun way of reflecting on what they've learned in each unit. Armored Penguin also offers it's users much flexibility in terms of what format the wordsearch is in, the size, quantity of words and even decorative images for the background. I might just give it a go when I'm in class!
http://www.armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch/
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