Gimkit
Gimkit has two different offerings in one tool that allow students to engage with and share their learning; Gimkit Live and Gimkit Ink.
What is Gimkit Live?
Gimkit Live is a quiz-based learning game with creative game modes to engage students live as a class or as assignments that can be completed on their own time. Gimkit is actively upgrading and adding to their offerings monthly to improve the playability, ease of use, and “freshness” of their program. Kits can be created from scratch, from existing quizlet or CSV files, by your students collaboratively, or cobbled together using existing kits from teachers around the world.
Check out these resources for more information:
How can I sign up?
Grayslake Central High School teachers should contact their instructional coaches for the link to create an account and join the subscription group. If you don’t already have an account, click on the Google Sign-in and it will prompt you to “sign up” using your Google Sign-in. Once your account is created, log out and log back in to fully activate your account with the paid subscription. (Please do not share this link with non-GCHS teachers as they will be removed from the subscription.)
Ideas on how you can use this with students.
As a review game (formative assessment) during a lesson or in preparation for a summative assessment. The live, in-class gameplay is quite engaging but it can also be used as an assignment for students to complete on their own.
As a creative way to have your students write and share ideas. Want to take your Google doc writing assignments up a notch? Give Gimkit Ink a try! (Peer-review is also an option with this mode.)
Have students explain how they worked through a problem using Gimkit Ink. Encourage them to embed images, short flipgrid recordings, google items, desmos graphs, etc. into their story to enhance their explanations.
As a way for students to introduce themselves to you and their classmates. Ask Diane Keuth about her “Kitroduce Yourself” activity from earlier this year.
As an independent station during a station-rotation lesson. Students can take a break from traditional learning activities to engage with a kit and provide you with formative feedback on their progress.
As a way to access prior knowledge, introduce a new concept, and gauge current levels of understanding. Play a game with the upcoming content, see where your students are at, and discuss their approach to answering questions with the new information.
As a way to practice ongoing skills (science reasoning, interpreting data & reading graphs, grammar, spiraled math concepts, etc.). Kits can be revised and reused throughout the year to keep students sharp.
As a collaborative lesson where students create the questions to build the kits that the class will engage with.
How can I access Gimkit support resources?
Check out this link for more information about Gimkit, how it works, and how to problem solve.
How can I keep up-to-date on Gimkit improvements?
Follow them on Twitter: @gimkit
Check out the Gimkit Blog