BP9_Quizlet

This is the main page for Quizlet. The site is easy to navigate and informative.

This week I used the 100 Essential Web 2.0 tools for teachers list at Online Degree.net to try and find a tool worthy of note. After hours of trolling through the list I finally came back to number four; Quizlet.

Even though, as I progress through my masters course, I am finding it more and more difficult to justify spending time focusing on content tests as teaching strategy I understand that knowing content will still be used in benchmarking and assessing growth for years to come. With this in mind, I find Quizlet to be a fun and exciting way to review facts and create online quizzes.

Over two million card sets and growing.

In its most basic terms Quizlet is a flash-card making tool that helps users create flash cards to help them study for tests. With that said, however, it also contains a bank of over two million ready-made flash cards in a variety of topics and the number continues to grow. It also makes it fun by giving you the ability to use these card sets in some simple game structures that focus on speed and association. Individual users can take tests in a variety of questioning formats like multiple-choice, true and false and short response. The scores from these can be saved for later comparison or for some competitive fun with others.

The blog page gives participants a sense of ownership to the site.

The site also has a blog page where the site owners discuss up coming changes and participants can join the conversation adding their ideas on the direction of the site.

The teachers page including FAQs and a featured teacher video

The website features help for teachers and, at the time of review, had a teacher created video of several different ways a French teacher uses it in the classroom to motivate and instruct her students.

This is now looking like the tool I will probably use for my video. Lots of practical two-way usage, a clear focus, comprehensive help and guidance sections and, once again, it’s free!