A study aide that's WAAAYYY more fun than flash cards!

Jeopardy Labs has a great site that teachers (or students) can build a great study tool on. I'm hard pressed to think of anyone I know who doesn't find a little guilty pleasure in stopping on "Jeopardy" while flicking through channels, just to try their luck - well now you can enjoy it in front of everyone because it's EDUCATIONAL! It's for school!

JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized Jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own Jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use their simple editor to get your game up and running. Also no registration, no sign in - as soon as you get on to the site you can use it.

If you are not interested in building your own Jeopardy template you can browse Jeopardy templates created by others - mostly teachers!
I set one up for a French review, popped it up on the overhead screen and we had a good time with it - I wished I had created more than just one! I'll be looking for more ready made ones that suit me - there are quite a few of them!

Good higher level thinking skills for kids too - remember, they are only seeing the answer within a category and have to figure out what the question is...

Use Cramberry to help your students study the right stuff

Cramberry is a very easy to use online flashcard tool. The really great feature about Cramberry is that after you set up a stack of flash cards, you can share it. That means, you can have your students sign up for Cramberry and share your card stacks with them. They can study them any time. To register - they just want a username, password, and email. Then you're ready. Just start a stack of flash cards. For elementary students who don't have emails, you can just log them in on your teacher password and they can do a little independent studying by themselves.

This is a great tool for when students have to know and remember steps, procedures, main points, facts, or specific vocabulary. When they see a card, they can guess, then check to see if they were right. If they were, they hit "correct". If they weren't, they hit "incorrect". Cramberry keeps track of which ones they are having trouble with and keeps bringing those back.