Fun with Flippity: Manipulatives
Saturday, September 05, 2020
After you make a copy of the Flippity template, you can easily customize it. I love that you can add as many words as you like, although if you add more than 30 it gets too crowded, and that you can colour each tile, which is handy to identify parts of speech. If you don't specify a colour, it defaults to white.
Under the Backgrounds tab, you can add links to different background images such as the blackboard image I used. The manipulatives template on Flippity.net has a variety of backgrounds, such as columns, rows, grids and a venn diagram, which are great for sorting words, and other textures. If you want a specific background set as the default, you need to list it at the top on the spreadsheet. Students can also select whichever background they want by clicking on the settings gear icon at the bottom right.
Under the Options tab, you can have the word times appear randomly every time students access the link or appear in the order in which you listed it on the Terms tab. Then, after you publish the Google Sheet to the web, you would go to the "Get the link here" tab and copy the Flippity url generated for you to share with students directly, or you could embed it into your Google Site, like I did here:
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3 COMMENTS
Thank you so much for sharing such great tips!
ReplyDeleteIs there a way I can post a flippity onto a Google Slide (like in your calendars?) I created a phrases melanges but I'm not sure how to best share it with students so I can see their work. Merci!
Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately, the only things you can embed within Google Slides are YouTube videos or audio/video clips that are in your Drive. So I chose to embed my Flippity manipulatives within my Google Site (see the link above). You can also embed them into a blog, like I did above. Another alternative would be embedding it into a BookCreator book. When students click on the link, it opens up in a pop window. Hope that helps!
DeleteThank you! :)
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