This application utilizes a microphone on your computer or laptop (you must click "allow to use microphone" when prompted). Students must work together to collectively bring the noise level down and allow the balls move less. You have the choice of using bouncy balls, bouncy emoticons, bouncy bubbles or bouncy eyeballs.
You'll need to allow students time to get accustomed to this new thing, but once that is over, and the novelty wears off, the balls on the screen will be a reminder to be cognizant of their voice level in the classroom. This does not need to be used forever, it is a scaffold. Once students become self-regulated with monitoring their voice levels, you can pull this scaffold away.
Select from a range of fun Classroom Timers that include candles, monster races, and allows you to create your own.
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Quickly get a timer, textarea, drawing tool, name picker, work symbols and more. Completely free.
This site was created by a teacher in the Netherlands. This teacher wanted to use a free and simple tool with all his favorite digiboard widgets to help students focus more on their work. When he could not find such a thing, he decided to make it. And here it is!