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Study Stack is a free online tool that provides flashcards and games to help students learn vocabulary and important terms, dates, or events. It's ideal for visual learners and allows extra practice outside the classroom. Teachers can easily create or utilize existing stacks, share links with students, and offer engaging learning experiences through various online games. With no student logins required, it’s user-friendly and accessible on smartphones. However, it lacks student usage tracking, and some games may require extra time to set up.
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What is Study Stack • Online flash cards for vocabulary and other important terms, dates, or events • Online games with those same terms, dates, and events • A way for visual learners to connect to the material • Extra practice outside of the classroom
The Pros • It’s free! • No student usernames or passwords are necessary • Each stack has its own link that you will give out to the students or post on a website for them • Many lists are already created by other users for you to utilize • If you have a list of terms already, you can simply copy and paste them into Study Stack
Getting Started • Go to http://www.studystack.com/ • Create an account or use your Facebook account to sign in
Searching for a stack • You can search for stacks that already exist by keyword, textbook, chapter, author, and more.
Creating a Stack • Go to “create new stack”
Creating a New Stack • Set your stack name and preferences
Enter Your Stack Data • You can do this in one of two ways • First, enter your questions with your answers
Enter Your Stack Data • Or scroll below and you can enter a text only list of questions/words and answers • You must choose a delimiter that separates the question from the answer for the program • The default is the # sign, I use the = sign
Enter Your Stack Data • Hit enter for each new question/answer set • When you are finished entering your data, hit import • When you scroll back up, your data will be in the original boxes • Do not forget to hit SAVE!
Using your Stack • Students can print the list of vocabulary or terms • If you checked “generate random fill-in-the-blank clues” upon creating your stack, your students can play games • Give students the link and they can use the stack online or on a variety of smart phones/iPods
Using your Stack • Students can move their flashcards to the correct or incorrect piles in order to practice better • Students can play a variety of games below the cards
The Cons • You have no way of tracking how many students have used the stacks or how often • Some students find the games childish while others love them • Some of the games cannot be played without uploading a picture to represent each word…takes way too long