In Memory of Alex Trebek: Making Jeopardy Review Boards in Class

Who wasn't a bit upset this past weekend when news broke that Jeopardy host Alex Trebek passed away? 

That's why I wanted to share these Jeopardy-style games that you can use in your physical or online classroom. They come from Ricard Byrne, the technology expert whose blog, FreeTech4Teachers.com, is a must! Thanks, Mr. Byrne for the tip and, most of all, THANK YOU, Mr. Trebek for all of those entertaining years of service!

Flippity Quiz Show

Flippity.net is my go-to resource whenever I want to make something interesting with Google Sheets. One of the oldest templates on the site is Quiz Show template that generates a Jeopardy board. You can use the template to create games to for individual or team play. You can see a demo of Flippity's quiz show template here and watch a video of how to use it here.

Factile

Factile is a site that has been around for a while. I started using it years ago when it was still called Jeopardy Rocks (it turns out that trademark and copyright concerns make it hard to use "Jeopardy" in a product name). Factile lets you create games and save them in your account to use whenever you need them. When you create your game you can include images in the answer display. The games in Factile can be played individually or in teams. You control the board and award points when students answer correctly.

Google Slides & PowerPoint

It's possible to create your own Jeopardy-style games using Google Slides or PowerPoint. You can do this by creating a table in your first slide then creating a series of slides that have your answers and questions on them. The Q&A slides are then hyperlinked back to the points listed in the table in your first slide. In this video I demonstrate how to make a Jeopardy-style game in Google Slides. The Slides Carnival website also has a template available to use in PowerPoint and Google Slides.

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