Hi this is Russell Stannard on teachertrainingvideos.com and today I'm
going to look at three different ways of creating flashcards when you're working with Quizlet and
we're going to look at how you can simply search for flashcards how you can create your own
flashcards but also how you can bring in lists from outside from an Excel spreadsheet or from
google translate and create flashcards in that way as well so let's get started okay so I'm logged
into Quizlet Quizlet is a free tool that encourage you to upgrade of course like many of these things
but it is a free tool I'm just gonna simply click on search and what I'm going to do is I'm going to
search for cards that other people have created and I'm gonna make a copy for myself so that I
can then share them with my students so I'm gonna write English transport let's imagine I'm looking
for a fairly low level I just do a search so I'm just using the search button up here at the
top press ENTER and then lots of different cards will come back now the whole idea of quiz Lea is
that you're sharing the content that you create so other teachers can use it so really a lot of
the time we don't have reinvent the wheel if the cards are already made so we can look through here
from that search and see if there's any cards that look interested I noticed this one here 15
terms and we've got 8 words and a picture I know that there's one missing there but I can edit that
anyway so I'm going to click on those and what I can do now is immediately I can click on here
customize and I'm basically going to make my own copy of these cards so I'm just gonna simply add
to that Russell because he's gonna become my cards ok and then I'm going to click on create and now
that study set has been added to my list of study sets I can share them share the link will even
share the link with a student straight away but the next thing I might want to do once I've done
that is I may want to edit them so I'm going to click now on the edit button brings me into edit
mode and what I can do is I can go through these cards and make any changes that I want to make
to them I can delete some cards if I others but the card that I don't like for example this one
here motorbike has got the picture missing so I'm going to just delete that so and if I wanted to
add cards to this list I can also do that at the bottom so let's just give you an example I can
click on add and I'm gonna write so for example yacht and let's see if we can then on this side
all we're going to do is just find the picture so we're gonna click here and you get pictures
of yachts and that will do fine and now I've just added a new card with the word and the picture and
in this case we're not using definitions and I would click on done those cards are mine they
are now part of my study set if I click over to the right here and click on your study sets
I will see Russell's English for beginners I can click on those and of course if I wanted then to
share them with my students well the easiest way is to click on the share button send the students
that copy that link and give it to them or if you're doing it on Twitter or Facebook etc so
that's the first way that we can create cards that is that we copy cards from other people we might
edit and change them and take away but basically it means that we don't have to reinvent the wheel
and that is actually a way that I often work now a lot of teachers and a lot of students like to make
their own cards now meme personally I don't use this second way I tend to use the first way and
the third way that I'm going to show you to make cards but let's just look at the second way so
we look at creates and what we'll do is first of all we need to give a name at the top so what I'm
going to call us is I'm going to call this Polish to English and we'll do food ok now I'm studying
Polish myself at the moment so it's quite useful for me to do these cards so I've given them a name
and now I need to start to add the cards now what I'm going to do first is choose a language so I'm
going to click on choose a language and I'll have Polish and in fact now in fact what I'll do is
make that's just going to change that I'm going to change that to English so I do English is the main
language and I can just write it up here and it will come up onto the screen so gonna have English
system this language here and this side I'm going to use the definition I'm going to use polish now
we don't have to use definitions I personally like them and it's normally easier when you're creating
cards to use your base language your first language as a language on the left hand side
and then get Quizlet to help you find the words so we're going to do food so we're going to keep it
very simple let's start by simply doing let's work around salads and stuff like that so I'm gonna do
Tomatoes now what will often happen is the wood will come up and then it's going to give me the
work word in Polish I'm gonna click on Pomodoro and I can also add a picture don't worry about
the science sound that's gonna be automatic and as I'll show you in a minute I'll just do a few cards
so that's done one already now I'm gonna come down to the next one and I'm gonna do another word here
so let's do for example cucumber so again let's just start with finding the word click on here
the words going to come up on the other side I can click on it and again I'm going to click here on
the picture and add a picture of a cucumber and I'll just do one more so this time we're gonna do
lettuce so just again clicking down words going to come up on the left hand side click on it and then
I'm gonna put the same word on the right hand side and I'm gonna choose this one here and then let's
just do perhaps one more let's just do potato so again coming up and then on the right hand side
the words going to come up and again and I forgot the picture there so let me just come back to that
one first and add in a picture and then it's come to this one here and again that's at a picture and
I'm done that is it I want I'm only gonna do four cards for this you can add more cards if you want
to all you need to do now is click on the create button those cards are produced again immediately
you're given a link which you can copy share with your students perhaps if you're using that model
or something like that but of course you can add the cards to their class if you've already got
classes set up and the next thing I just want to do with these cards is quickly test them just just
to show you something so I'm going to click on flashcards now the cards are open and make sure
you click on options and what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to answer with English and I'm gonna
click on advanced here and I want the English off and I want the polish on and I want the speed to
be normal so it's just me test these cards we can hear the card in the word in Polish and then it's
perhaps too easy because I've got the picture with it might have been easier to put the picture of
the English side and then of course I've got a translate I can click and then I've got the word
okay I'll go deck and then again I can translate so that's how you can create your own card to them
you need to click on that button now and notice that the audio is automatic lots of people ask
me Russell how do you add the audio the audio is added automatically remember you don't have
to use a picture if you want to and don't forget as well you don't necessarily have to do just one
word and in other videos I talked a lot about how I actually use complete sentences and even
do things where the first sentence is in English and the second sentence in English but it might be
the present in the past so lots of more creative ways of working not just simply translating words
but that's the way to create your own cards now the third way is the way that I actually create
cards now I'm studying polish and when I'm in my class I have Google Translate open because Google
Translate is a free tool if you have a Gmail account you can't even find it on your browser
if you're at Google Translate it will come up but it's great if you've got a Gmail account because
it works in a slightly different way it will actually save all the words that you find and
search for so as I'm doing my lessons or after my lessons I will open up Google Translate and
go through the vocabulary that I've learned so I'm just kind of open it up now and I've got a couple
of words that I've learned in the last couple of days that I want to put into my list the first
one is especially okay so I'm just gonna write the word in English it's gonna come up in Polish
I'm gonna click here plus okay that means it's now been added to my list remember because I'm
logged into my gmail account it will remember my list and I'm gonna do one more just to demonstrate
this and the word I'm gonna do is difficult okay Pruden incorrect again I'm going to add someone
list I could even listen to the world by clicking here and then okay now what about if I want to
see all the list of words so I can click here and I'm gonna choose all the words I'm just gonna get
all the English to polish words and there's 26 and what I'm gonna do is and this is the great
thing I can now bring those words straight in or not quite straight but nearly straight into
my quiz lick and start to study them so how do I do that would like to simply click on this
button here and that is gonna export those words or it's going to actually bring them into what we
call Google sheets there they are and I've got the grater here I've got the word in English and I've
got the word in Polish now what I'm gonna do I don't need these two columns so I'm just gonna
right click there and click click on delete column because I don't under the word I don't need those
and I'm gonna do the same way delete column so that I'm just left with the list of words and
the translation okay now in this case I'm quite happy you can always edit things if you need to
change things or anything I'm just simply now I'm gonna click on the first one and click on ctrl a
or you could just say select all that would have done exactly the same thing all you want to do is
select all the words and now this is the brilliant thing so just gonna copy all those words I'm going
to copy them so just copy now I'm gonna come back to my Google so back to Quizlet and I'm going to
create a new study set so I'm gonna simply go this one here new vocabulary May 2019 and I'm
not going to add in any words here I'm simply going to click here below and it's gonna say to
me well what you're gonna do and I'm gonna just simply paste I have the word in English space
word in Polish and that will be enough and I can even see that it started to create all the words
underneath I click on the import and that is done I have now got a list and what I love about this
this list is related to what I was doing in my class now some people say to be all Russell Google
Translate but in our experience especially working with just one word or just a simple phrases Google
Translate is really reliable and generally the words that it produces is the translation are
absolutely great it might be more difficult if you use in long phrases but certainly for translating
words and see how easy that is to do for me and I love that relationship between what I'm doing
in the lesson and adding these words into Google Translate or after the lesson and then bring them
into Quizlet to study and play games with them so those are the three ways to create cards in
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