{"id":2307,"date":"2013-05-09T08:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T08:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2013-05-09T08:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T08:13:47","slug":"free-tools-for-teaching-name-randomiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/05\/09\/free-tools-for-teaching-name-randomiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Free tools for teaching &#8211; name randomiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/primaryschoolict.com\/random-name-selector\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2308\" style=\"margin: 5px\" alt=\"Name Randomiser\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/NameRandomiser-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/NameRandomiser-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/NameRandomiser-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/NameRandomiser-453x300.jpg 453w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/NameRandomiser-900x595.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2013\/05\/NameRandomiser.jpg 1083w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dr Radmehr Monfared is a Lecturer in Intelligent Automation within the Wolfson School. In conversation with a Teaching Centre colleague Radmehr mentioned a couple of free online tools he has been using to support his teaching. Here is Radmehr describing the first scenario:<\/p>\n<p><em>It is always a dilemma how to choose a student to answer a question while maintaining the fairness and equal opportunity to everyone, and also not making the student nervous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I have come across the \u201cname randomiser\u201d idea many years ago. The idea is to rotate through the students\u2019 names on the screen and randomly stop at one name.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This has been proved an ice breaker and a fun activity, while that chosen person has to answer the question. Students certainly like it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Back in the days when our lecture rooms didn\u2019t have internet access, I use to use a simple VB program that did the job for me, but filling the student list was a problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But these days, I use the following website, which is fun (with lots of interesting noises) to take pressure\/stress off from the students.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/education-games-php\/fruit_machine\">http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/education-games-php\/fruit_machine<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 The advantage is that I can copy and paste the student list from my excel sheet very easily. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another one that I particularly like and used is \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/primaryschoolict.com\/random-name-selector\/\">http:\/\/primaryschoolict.com\/random-name-selector\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0. This\u00a0one also allows running a timer for students to answer the question.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[The latter is the tool shown in the screenshot above and it&#8217;s interesting to note that it was intended for primrary school use but can be useful even in HE!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Radmehr Monfared is a Lecturer in Intelligent Automation within the Wolfson School. In conversation with a Teaching Centre colleague Radmehr mentioned a couple of free online tools he has been using to support his teaching. Here is Radmehr describing the first scenario: It is always a dilemma how to choose a student to answer<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/05\/09\/free-tools-for-teaching-name-randomiser\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-web2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}