I was contacted the other day by someone trying to promote their bingo-card-creator telling me how much teachers are loving his product.

I told him I would have to try it out before I told my own newsletter subscribers and customers about it…

Well he sent me a complimentary copy of his bingo-card-creator software and I’d have to say, “Wow! I’m impressed!”

If you are familiar with any of my work you know I absolutely love to play review games (my ebook, eTeach: A Teacher Resource, has an entire chapter devoted to just review games).

Bingo has been a review game that I enjoy playing, but the problem has always been the fact that the students must each create their own game card…I either read a list of key terms to them or they copy the list down off the board placing the terms in random order on their bingo card.

Unfortunately, this is time consuming and can also lead to classroom management problems. For that reason, I do not play bingo as often as I would like to…

Well, this new software has changed all that!

I have to admit I was skeptical at first (that’s just my nature), but I was able to create bingo cards for a review game I am going to play this Wednesday in literally 2 minutes.

I simply typed in the key terms from the unit…clicked print and out came 30 different bingo cards…Perfect!

Now for the bad news…

1. This software is only for windows (sorry Mac users)

2. There is a free version, but it is limited – the big difference is that you can not chose your own words…although there are several free themes that may work for your classroom (math, science, holidays, sight words etc.)

Personally, I needed the paid version so I could type in my own review terms.

What’s great about the paid version is that since you can type in your own terms this can literally be used with ANY grade level and ANY subject area.

Personally, I think the $20 price tag is well worth something I am going to use many times throughout the school year for many years to come.

For more information on this great teaching toll make sure to visit:
http://www.bingocardprinter.com/a_bcp.php?n=teaching

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