Quizlet.com defines WEB2.0 technology. As of last month it has over half a million users and 33 million flash cards. Quizlet is essentially a flash program with WEB2.0 features. It allows users to easily share cards and each set of flash cards is tagged which makes searching for cards very easy. The account is free and it is extremely easy to use. Quizlet was started by a 15 year old high school kid, Andrew Sutherland, who now is in his second year at MIT. It is now connected to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and even has an iPhone app(Sutherland, N.D.)
Quizlet has several different ways to present the cards. It has quizzes which you can format and several games. My student love doing the Space Race game where the students have to type in the definitions of words as they race across the screen. One feature added last year was audio recognition which works pretty well for a free program.
The latest new feature is a connection between Flckr and Quizlet. Quizlet now allows the users to link flash cards to images on Flckr. This is just another example of how Quizlet defines WEB2.0. Instead of going through the trouble of creating an image uploading component, Quizlet combine what is already out there to improve itself.
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References
Screen Capture From Quizlet.com]. (n.d.). Retrieved October 17, 2009, from http://quizlet.com/1290171/stage-19-vocabulary-flash-cards/
Sutherland, A. (n.d.). The Quizlet Story. Retrieved October 17, 2009, from http://quizlet.com/about/
Liz said...Wow, and I thought ProProfs.com was cool. I too liked Space Race, particularly because it makes the player focus on answers they missed by retyping the word; they can't just ignore what they don't know. The voice recognition things are really cool too, especially for those students who have significant trouble spelling, but still know the answers. I love the built in motivation to try again as well. Great find, Gerald!
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