I believe we'll be seeing a lot more sites like Quia that allow teachers to develop their own interactive activities for the classroom. I was experimenting with some interactive Battleship games on Quia created by teachers and shared on the Quia site for everyone to use. The Battleship games work great on the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard.
To find a Battleship game to play from the shared resources section of Quia, all I did was choose a subject area and then I chose Battleship from the Activity Type search field. You can also enter in keywords, sub-categories, etc. to help narrow things down a bit, but your search results may come back empty. After I did my search, I simply scrolled through my list until I found something relevant.
The Battleship game is simple. You play against the computer and you take turns trying to find the ships on the game board. If you hit one of the computer's ships, you'll need to answer a question by choosing the correct answer from the list provided. If you are right, you get a hit. If you are wrong, you'll need to try again on your next turn.
I can think of a number of different ways a teacher could use this review activity in the classroom. These activities are also flash-based so you can use the Flash Game Maximizer add-on in Firefox to make the activity as large as possible on the SMART Board.
You can subscribe to Quia to access additional resources and create your own interactive games, however, you don't need to subscribe to access the shared resource library. Quia has a 30 day free trial if you're interested in checking out all the resources.
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