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Quizlet Live Variations in Spanish Class

March 14, 2018

Do your students love Quizlet Live as much as mine do? We’re totally obsessed. I was getting a little worried my students would get sick of it, but then I discovered this post on Quizlet Live Variations and had to test them out with my middle and high school students.

Quizlet Live Variations:

I decided to try out Silent Tag Team (which my classes re-named shoulder tap) and then we also did the Relay version.

Quizlet Live Variations - Tag Team
Quizlet Live Variations - Relay

(Both of those images are not mine! They’re from the Quizlet post I linked above).

Eleven (another variation described in the post) is an option that requires students to get to ALMOST the end of a round and then..wait. Which to me seemed like a good recipe to have lots of students sitting around, not being engaged. No thanks! If you’ve tried it and it worked out, let me know..I wasn’t brave enough.

Cacophony is a variation that we have been doing for a long time! In my mind this variation is called “There’s still some class time left and we’re going to use it!” Hah! Cacophony certainly is a great name for it because they do get pretty loud.

Reflection

We loved both of the variations that we tried!

For Tag Team, most of my classes wound up in groups of three so we just did right shoulder, left shoulder, or “upper middle back”, with two students standing and deciding silently, then cueing the sitting student. We took turns within the same group so each student got a turn sitting and cueing! It was nice not to have to switch groups very often.

The biggest issue with Relay was DEFINITELY space. One of my classrooms used to be an old computer lab and is ginormous, so that was beautiful. In my other room it was vital to make sure that the groups were all clear on who was moving where, and making sure that all bags were tucked underneath chairs so they weren’t tripping hazards!

I love Quizlet as a whole website, not just Live! It’s a great practice tool for students in many ways! I love that there are so many different things you can do with it – like playing Head’s up using Quizlet to support students. I hope they keep developing great things for the classroom! Have you tried any of the Quizlet.Live variations? Which one would you suggest I try next?

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Comments

  1. Patrizia says

    April 29, 2018 at 11:30 pm

    Which of the quizlet activities are used to play these games! So sorry to bother you! I really wan to try these games but I am not sure which activites to use. Thank you!
    Patrizia

    Reply
    • Ashley Mikkelsen says

      April 30, 2018 at 1:04 am

      No bother! All of these are played with Quizlet Live!

      Reply
  2. Lais says

    September 21, 2019 at 7:17 pm

    Hi
    I still don’t understand how the tag team works. Does the computer automatically change to the next word? How do you set up the computers for the tag team game?

    Reply
    • [email protected] says

      September 21, 2019 at 8:03 pm

      Hi there! So if you are playing Quizlet Live the computer will switch to the next word after each answer. This Instagram post might help you visualize the set up!
      https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPJzbABIET/

      Reply
      • Loly Mireles says

        January 23, 2022 at 4:37 pm

        So there are 3 students, hence the 3 computers. Only 1 sits, and when they are prompted, they look up and choose the correct answer. My question is, the person that is tapping, they have to look at the computers and check to see what the correct answer is so they can then tap for the correct computer. Correct?

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        • Ashley Mikkelsen says

          February 7, 2022 at 2:02 pm

          Yes! That is exactly it. The standing students silently look at the computers and agree on which computer it is, then one of them taps the seated student, then that seated student looks up and chooses the word from the computer screen indicated. I hope that helps!

          Reply
  3. Alexis Arias says

    January 21, 2020 at 7:34 am

    Just wanted to share that I use Quizlet relay but instead of having kids run from the back and front of the room, the teams each used a group table. Their chromebooks lined up on one side of their table facing the front of the room, while they line up on the backside of their table unable to see the questions/answer screens. Then kinda like musical chairs, the teammates take turns going around to the front of their tables to the chromebooks in order to answer a question one at a time.

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    • [email protected] says

      January 21, 2020 at 6:05 pm

      I love to do that too! I think it works perfectly if you have enough space in your classroom. Thanks for sharing!

      Reply

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