Tinycards is a free service from Duolingo that provides quick review activities in your web browser or on your iPad. Tinycards are essentially multimedia flashcards with a few quiz questions interspersed between them. The idea being that students will flip through a few digital flashcards then answer a question or two to test their recall of the topic at hand.
Here's an example of how Tinycards works. In the geography section there is a collection of cards about the continents. Students flip a couple of cards that show students the name and relative location of a continent. After a couple of cards are flipped students are then asked a multiple choice question about the location of the continents. Then a few more cards are flipped and students have to answer a fill-in-the-blank question.
Applications for Education
There are Tinycards sets for practicing many languages including Chinese, Spanish, French, and German. History, geography, and science flashcards are also available in Tinycards. Registered Tinycards users can create their own sets of flashcards.
My daughter and I have colds right now. While she's still too young to understand why she has a cold, it won't be that long before she does. When she's older, I might show her this SciShow Kids video that explains to kids why we get sick and how to prevent getting sick.
Applications for Education
You might use a tool like Vizia to have students answer questions at various points in the video. You could have them answer the questions individual or you could have them answer as a group. Learn more about Vizia in my video below.
Google Sheets and spreadsheets in general offer a good format for organizing numerical data. If you have a lot of cells in a Google Sheets column there will be times when you want to quickly get the sum of all of the data in the column. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to quickly get the sum of the cells in a Google Sheets column.
Helping teachers create blogs and or re-start dormant blogs is one of my favorite things to do. In fact, last week I ran a three hour workshop for that purpose. If you don't have three hours to invest in a workshop, join me online on Thursday at 4pm EST to learn about winning blog strategies that you can use right away.
Based on ten years of blogging professionally and personally, Winning Blog Strategies is an interactive webinar in which we will look at the reasons why so many blogs don’t last long and what you can do to make yours work better than ever. Whether blogging is a classroom activity that you do with students or a personal activity that you’re doing to enhance your professional life, you’ll learn strategies to make your blog a winner. Register here.
In this webinar you will learn:
The biggest mistakes people make when starting a blog.
Strategies for developing blog topics
How to get people to stay on your blog longer (the longer they stay, the better).
Blogging activities you can do with your students.
Techniques to encourage people to interact with you and your blog.
