Thing #14-Fun Things to Play with

I simply must admit that after this week of school, playing on the computer even in the form of homework was a wonderful stress remover. Being in a very strange mood, I decided to start from the bottom up until I got to a "toy" that peeked my interest. I have had some experience with writeboard and wordle from earlier in 23 things so I just looked over them but decided not to redo.
I was really excited about Weebly. I really thought that this would be the one that I would use. I love drag and drop things. This week in the computer lab my students created their own food webs, and it was fun. I thought that I might make my own using my own digital photos, but did not like how weebly placed the picts on the page. Then I went to toondoo, and Ta-da list. My son really likes cartoons and I thought it would be fun for him. Only a few seconds later, I realized cartoons are still not my thing and do I really want or need another list of things to do.
My next stop was Quizlet. What an incredible site!!! I LOVE IT. I created a science vocabulary list of 30 words from our 8th grade vocabulary list, you know, the district's big push. I teach 7th and am planning to do the same thing for them. I started with 8th since I have son in 8th grade . It does all sorts of amazing things including flashcards, quizzes and games with my list. I think it may be the best thing I have found so far! I am going to share my list with the 8th grade science teachers also so that maybe some of their students can use it too!