Quizlet for Assessment Review

So I knew I was onto something for students with Quizlet when my son ran through his flashcards twenty times in one night. When I asked him why he had done it so many times, he said because his teacher had set it up as a game and he wanted to be the best in the class. Using competition to get kids to study is a great idea.

Quizlet was started eleven years ago by a high schooler who was trying to figure out how to study for a test. Boasting one hundred million users there are many different uses for it that you can have your students do:

Teacher or student can create their own set of flashcards
Teachers can then create their own classes which require no login for the students so they can play games (many different ones)
You can also just search for ones for your class. You can also be specific such as typing in the name of your unit and state exam and it will pop up. Generally the best ones are the top returns. Then you can just take the link and give it to your students

The video above will help you do all of the above things.

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Tech Conferences

On March 7th and 8th I will be at the South by Southwest Education conference in Austin. Another conference that I have enjoyed is the ISTE one which this year is in Denver from June 26-29 . The key, if you can do so is to find someone else to pay for you. For example I am doing work for TES (more on that coming later) and so they are paying my entry ticket. So why bother? Well first off you will meet lots of tech minded people like yourself and make some connections that you can work with when you return home. Secondly there are lots of companies showing all of their latest wares and then, there are talks and demonstrations - literally hundreds of them. If you can't get the big ones, look for one close to home. Here is a place to start.

How to Make Your Own Flip & Tutorial Videos

Over the years I have made lots of video tutorial for my blog followers and flip videos for my students . Every single one of them have been made using Screencastomatic . You can purchase your own yearly subscription, but I have not only never paid, but also never even set up a free account. You don't need to since you can make the video and then just upload it onto YouTube. Watch the video above and you will be able to see how to record, add you talking (or not) to the recording and to upload it - all in less than two minutes. Go forth and make your own tutorials and teach lots of others. In a later post I'll show you how to organize your YouTube video library.

Using Twitter as a Teaching Method

So I have posted on using Twitter a number of times on my US Government Teachers Blog , but it is more than appropriate to discuss it with eLearning. Sometimes the learning can't stay in the classroom and in those cases Twitter is a good substitute for a class discussion at home. Above is an example of when my students (and other teachers' students) have joined together to Tweet a debate (one tonight) and/or State of the Union. It was the brainchild of Frank Franz and has worked many many times as find that the kids have a dynamic discussion during the exercise and have far more Tweets than the required number. We pick a hashtag which our students include in every post. It can be as simple as #schoolnamegovclass. Here is what it looked like on last week's State of the Union. What about the kids who don't have Twitter! I generally use an editable Google Drive document, but one option I am using TodaysMeet which lets you set up a Twitter l...

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