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Basically using Homework as learning...

If you're thinking about doing some gamification in your classes next year, I found a website that can help. FantasyClass is an opensource website ( Github ) that can help keep track of student points, XP, levels, and items. It can help your class tell a collective story together throughout the year.

Free website for science simulations and tools for teaching middle school and high school science.

Here's a tool that I haven't seen posted on here that I'm using in my class this year. It's a nonprofit owned tool (and not self promotion).

What I was looking for:

• I wanted something like Anki for individual student daily review. But I wanted a way to grade the quick practice (for the start of class). I also wanted a way to give them credit for doing their reviews in class or as homework.

Why I like it:

• I can make the cards
• Students get individual reviews based on how they did on that card in the past.
• Students can be given a grade for doing their reviews, no matter how they preform on them. (Making low stakes practice get points)
• Cards can be tied to standards

What I don't necessarily like:

• I have to make all cards (there is an AI tool, but I haven't gotten wide success with it)
• There's not a cloze type card (Multiple fill-in-the-blanks get converted to multiple cards)

Here's one of my favorite music videos. I think this fits the theme of this community, but please remove if you don't agree.

I've been playing The Case of the Golden Idol this week and I love how it doesn't pull punches and how I actually have to figure things out without a multiple choice quiz.

A rarely mentioned cute little puzzle game that you might like is called Carto.

What are your favorite mystery/puzzle games that don't spoon-feed you?

This is a favorite of mine.

As we wrap up the school year I've been thinking about gamifying my classroom next year. Does anyone have any experience with it?

I have a TrueNAS scale NAS setup and I would like to host a matrix server. Do I have any options? Any particular implementation that I should go with? Does anyone have any experience with this?

I'm looking for an Android python ~~compiler~~ interpreter that runs locally on my phone. Any suggestions are appreciated. FOSS apps preferred of course.

Edit: changed compiler to interpreter

Edit 2: I ended up going with Pydroid3. I wish there was a FOSS alternative.