Jeopardy - The Outsiders

Here is my Jeopardy game that I plan to use as a review of my students' current literature assignment, The Outsiders. If you have read the book, try the review; if not, read the book...it is a must-read story about a multitude of critical issues faced by many of our students. This is the link to my game:

Jeopardy - The Outsiders

You must view this as a slide show to play. It is saved as a pps file, but computer quirkiness may cause it to come up as a ppt "read only" file. Once you start the slide show, just click on a point value for a category, and the question slide (well, "the answer", as this is, after all, Jeopardy) will come up. Click on the same slide, and the answer slide (i.e., the "question") will come up. Click on the action button (I chose a ? for mine.), and you will be taken back to the board. The color will change on the point values as you click on them to indicate they've been used. Pretty slick!! Once you have this set up with the point values, action buttons, and links, it is easy to change the text for new games. My classes finished reading The Outsiders just yesterday; today we began watching the movie. We will use this Jeopardy game to review for the test and as a starting point for our discussion about the differences between the book and the screen adaptation. I will definitely keep this tool in my kit (and wish I'd have had it earlier this school year).

I found online directions for creating a Jeopardy game from scratch, which were extremely helpful, and which gave me a whole new look at the options available in the PowerPoint program. The actual assignment asked students in this class to use a provided template, to fix the mechanical errors, and to add appropriate text. I think I took the long way around, but I feel pretty happy about my success on this one! Sorry, Dr. Pierce, for straying off the path; luckily, I found my way despite myself.

Debbie

Self-Portrait

From Bits of Fun, I was directed to Mr. Picassohead to create a self-portrait. This is kind of neat. The link I have provided will take you to the site where you can make one of yourself. Check it out at:

Debbie as Abstract

I also experimented with the Jackson Pollack paint site...colors are random, but I made several "paintings", all in the spirit of amusement park spin art. A relaxing activity, but I couldn't figure out how to save it.

Debbie