Teaching Tips Thursday: Wheel of Names

What is the Wheel of Names?

Wheel of names is a free online tool to randomize names or images.

Access

Go to the wheel of names website to access

https://wheelofnames.com/

Ideas for Using Wheel of Names

• Student names
• Team names
• Subject matter
• You can copy special characters like smileys from other websites and paste them into the text box. They will then appear on the wheel. See this wheel for an example. Emojipedia is a great place to find characters to copy. 
• You can display images instead of text. Click the Add image button and you can upload an image. If you write text next to the image in the text box, that text will appear on top of the image.
  • Images with uniform background color work the best. Each slice with an image gets the same background color as the image. Some example wheels:
    • Yes, no, maybe
    • Cartoon monsters
    • Gaming icons

How to Present Wheel of Names

• Share your screen in a Zoom meeting
• Embed in your Canvas course