April is almost half way over and I just noticed that we had not posted a podcast in March. Ouch! In this episode, we chat with two North Whiteville Academy students. One is a middle school student, the other is a high schooler. Dondi shares how he has been using Quizlet to learn vocabulary. Students earn classroom credit for completing short assignments on Quizlet.
Here's how it works:
1. Students enter a vocabulary list of key science terms words. On their own time, at home or at the public library, students can drill and practice additional terms. (ex. SAT words, history dates, French-Spanish translations, etc.)
2. Quizlet has a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly-generated tests, and collaboration tools for classmates to help each other study those words.
3. “You ace your test.”
Here are some neat features:
1. Quizlet keeps track of the words its users know and only retests on the ones not mastered. This provides students with immediate feedback.
2. Students can share their word sets with classmates and get email notification when others make sets for them.
3. Words can be imported from a text file without having to retype them into Quizlet. This reduces lots of typo errors for students that are not accustomed to keyboarding or have learning challenges.
4. Quizlet has accent buttons for typing letters in foreign languages.
5. Students can discuss sets with classmates via group discussion boxes.
6. Quizlet works in any language.
If you can type it into your keyboard, you can study it on Quizlet.
Tyson describes a new feature of Quizlet. Listen to his reason for using Quizlet.
The last segment is from a Friday Seminar. Students explored chemical bonding. A video from United Streaming detailing the characteristics of various chemical bonds. Students researched ionic, and covalent bonding. Information was shared and evaluated by groups. They worked in small groups to construct a poster to describe the different types of bonding. The class then sang a song they found on the Internet titled “The Atoms Family” which is a play on words for a favorite 60’s TV show and its theme song. The words were written by Kathleen Crawford, 1994.
Friday, April 13, 2007
