Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Activity #6: Study tools

I used Tagxedo for my first study tool. It took only a few minutes to create a word picture and it was easy. I could not figure out if there was a place to sign in OR if I was simply supposed to save it to my computer. I did a few of them because I was not sure what I was doing. I can see using this for word poems or a fun way to display a vocabulary list. I made one with all of the members of my family. I printed it and used it as a card. FUN colors to choose from and fun outlines - though some don't look so great once the words are in them. This example is a simple geography of South America word bank in the shape of South America. I could use this to introduce the geography - or to use as a matching activity with countries and capitals.


For my second study tool I tried to use study blue but it kept making my computer crash! :( So, I moved on to quizlet. I have had students use quizle to study Spanisht in the past, but I have never generated my own flashcards. I have had students search the many thousands of card sets already available.

I decided to enter a set of vocabulary that I will be using this fall. Then I played with all of the activities that you can so. I really liked all of the activities! The flashcards are useful just to start studying. I liked that the Spanish characters were already there so I didn't have to use html codes. I also was really excited when you can actually hear the words spoken in Spanish - and it actually sounds ok! It took moments to create and seems to be useful. I will use this and/or offer it to my students to create their own.


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  1. AnonymousJuly 31, 2013 at 9:10 PM

    Great Tagxedo picture!

    I also like Quizlet better than StudyBlue. We'll probably take StudyBlue off the list of choices because they don't allow you to embed it any longer. Grrr. I can totally see students studying Spanish flashcards on their phones! You could even do a little crash course review time before a quiz and let them take out their phones to study for 5-10 minutes. Perfect!

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  2. AnonymousAugust 1, 2013 at 6:16 AM

    I also like how quizlet as the app that allows kids to access content on their smartphones. This makes it very useful.

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  3. Justin BenolkinAugust 21, 2013 at 8:27 AM

    As a non-language teacher I overlooked the ability to hear the words of quizlet. That is a nice touch that would work even for english words. Often I have had students that know a what a word means but mispronounce it.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 24, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    Yes, I love the pronunciation feature of Quizlet, especially for beginning students who are not always sure how to pronounce words in Spanish. I like Becky´´s idea of using Tagxedo to make a card. Probably not for the classroom, but could work well to make a quick congratulations or birthday card for a colleague.

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  5. AnonymousAugust 24, 2013 at 2:55 PM

    Yes, I love the pronunciation feature of Quizlet, especially for beginning students who are not always sure how to pronounce words in Spanish. I like Becky´´s idea of using Tagxedo to make a card. Probably not for the classroom, but could work well to make a quick congratulations or birthday card for a colleague. Also thanks for tip on using it to practice verb forms. I never thought of that; I've just used it for vocabulary. But now I've thinking of ways I could use it to practice grammar as well.

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