Quizlet is a very useful and fun tool. At www.quizlet.com you can find and make your own flashcards for your vocabulary. There is one catch. You must create an account. At the top right corner of the screen click on sign up. Choose a username and a password. At the end it will ask you for your age. For people under thirteen, ask your parents if you can use their birthday to set up a family account. After creating your account log in and click on make flashcards. You can then create flashcards of your vocabulary for school. When finished creating, you can, learn, test yourself, play speller, or try a game. Of the games my favorite is Space Race. Warning! If you are not a quick typer, this is not a game for you, but it is fun. The object of Space Race is to type your vocabulary words before they disappear. If you pass a level you gain a life. If you run out of lives the game is over. My high score is 30,000 something. Scatter is a matching game. You try to match the definition of your words to the term in the fastest time. I haven’t found a way to lose yet, but the goal is to have the fastest time. I have only been using Quizlet for under a week, but I know that it will be a great study tool. I recommend you get Quizlet today.
You might like studystack.com too. Similar idea as quizlet, but with a different set of games.
Thanks to Mr. Weidner for posting. He runs studyshack.com and most likely has some type of alert system for when blog posts are written with names of other flashcard sites. A little checking on the links at studyshack.com show that he supports it with ads (like most sites), and has been involved in technology for a long time. http://www.studystack.com/resume.html
I believe this is the first comment from outside of our school and parents but begins to show how we can connect our learning beyond the bricks of our school. A good lesson is to view comments as a fact to be checked and as a resource to build a community of learners.