Three More Ways for Students to Create Flashcards Online
Writing yesterday’s blog post about my favorite alternative to Quizlet prompted me to look back at some other options for creating online flashcards. Should you find yourself looking for some free and easy ways for students to make online flashcards, give the following options a try. Flippity’s flashcard template lets you create multimedia flashcards by […]
A Great Alternative to Quizlet
Three times in the last week I’ve answered emails from readers who were seeking suggestions for alternatives to Quizlet. Each time my answer was to try Knowt. Knowt is a free tool that I’ve written about a few time in the last couple of years. It’s a tool that you can use to create flashcards […]
AP Government Review Resources – Kahoots and Quizlets from C-SPAN Classroom
AP exam season will be here soon. As they have done for the last five years, C-SPAN Classroom will be hosting a live Cram for the Exam session on May 4th. It’s free and open to any student who is taking the AP Government exam. That’s not the only AP Government review resource that C-SPAN […]
Create Interactive Diagrams on Quizlet
Earlier this month Quizlet, a popular flashcard service, added a new interactive diagram feature. This new feature can be used by students and teachers to create review activities that are based upon pictures and charts. Clicking on a point on an interactive Quizlet image will reveal the name or term clicked. You can then “flip” […]
Two Options for Collecting Students’ Questions to Appear on Review Games
Earlier this week I received the following email from a reader, My desire is to create a database of questions in multiple choice, short answer and T/F . I guess a quiz, however I would like to “share” (like g docs) this database with my students so that they could add questions . What app […]
Great Review Games for the Classroom That Isn’t 1:1
A comment that I frequently hear during or after my workshop on backchannels and informal assessment goes something like this, “I would love to do these things, but not all of my students have computers to use.” Fortunately, there are some great review games that can be played in classrooms that only have a handful […]
Quizlet Live Offers an Easy Way to Turn Vocabulary Lists Into Team Games
Quizlet has long been a great website and app for students to use to create and review flashcards. Teachers can also use it to create flashcards to share with students. Last week Quizlet added a great new feature called Quizlet Live. Quizlet Live allows teachers to select a set of vocabulary words in Quizlet and […]
Quizlet’s Practice Mode Now Works on Mobile Devices
The popular flashcard and test-prep service, Quizlet, has added a much-requested feature to their mobile app. You’ve long been able to review flashcards on Quizlet’s mobile apps. Now you can take practice tests on the Quizlet mobile app. According to Quizlet’s corporate blog, the practice test mode is available now on iOS and will be […]