BP3_2010011_Web2.0 TI -Quizlet

Our school district has decided to focus on vocabulary in our schools. I was looking for website that would give me a new spin on how to introduce vocabulary and make it stick.

http://quizlet.com is a great site that was created by Andrew Sutherland when he was 15 years old. He is the President for Quizlet LLC as well as a web developer and college student. His mission is “to make learning vocabulary not a chore”. This site is free and he says will remain free. He now has a small team he works with and they have an office where they are always working on this.

I found it very easy to sign up and continued to be user friendly throughout the process. I created a set of vocabulary words and definitions for our last two stories to see how long it took what would be available. I was done inputting the information within 20 minutes and now my students will have several ways to review them.

They have one option of making general flash cards like we are used to seeing them. The vocabulary word is on the front and the definition is on the back. This is nice if you wanted to have it available on the computer for them to go back and drill themselves when they had free time. But, what I really liked was a test was automatically created from the words in a matter of seconds. There were some matching and some multiple choice. This could be printed out or the class could do it on the computer and a score is generated. The correct answers are in one color and the answers that were wrong were in another and a percentage and letter grade was given.

They had two games available: Scatter and Space Race. Scatter is very similar to a matching or concentration game and Space Race is where the words scroll across the top and the student has to type in the definition and they can rack up points. This is a site worth checking out. Go to it and let me know what you think…….