A great tool to use with kids for current events!

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Community Review for Flocabulary

Miriam K.
Miriam K.
Cornell Elementary School
Coraopolis PA, US
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I love using this website. I used to have the students work on a current events assignment using the newspaper or different news websites. This website has made the whole project into something different. The students are engaged with the song and the articles. The critique that I have is that sometimes I have a problem with the news that they chose to cover. This is not an all inclusive current events site. I realize that not everything can be covered in a 2 minute song. Just know that you may have to supplement with some other articles.

How I Use It

I use this product every week in my teaching. Flocabulary.com has a lot of music videos for many different subjects and across all grade levels. I teach a research skills class to 7th and 8th graders. Every Friday, the class participates in "Flocab Fridays". The website offers a "This Week in Rap" song every Friday that gives a quick glimpse to the students of world news. Each main topic that is talked about also has a short description of the news event as well as a hyperlink to a news source about that event. The class will work through those short news descriptions. For the weekend the students chose an article on which to complete a writing assignment.
The students love Flocab Fridays! This is a great tool to make news accessible to students.

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September 5, 2024

Wonderful!!

Not only is the resource amazing, but the customer service is great too! I accidentally tried accessing it with my personal email and ended up paying for the subscription when I already had it on my work email. The support representative was very kind and helped me sort this out! I wish that there weren't additional aspects of the website that you have to pay even more for after you've already paid for the subscription, but the basic subscription is definitely worth it!
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J. H.
J. H. Administrator
September 27, 2023

Misleading Information and Inflated Prices

Their "lite" tier of the product is trash and not even worth making a free account, let alone paying money for it's use. You can't do ANY of the things a good teacher would want to do with an activity with their students. To make matters worse, they put pressure on you as the teacher to push your school site administration to purchase a license for the entire school. Why should it be MY job to advertise and solicit for your product? How dare they lock the most useful features behind a paywall that individual teachers can have NO control over whatsoever.
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Anne G.
Anne G.
May 2, 2022

Fun and engaging ways for students to learn!

The large variety of lessons on the website are great for me to see what my students are interested in and for me to do my lesson plans around. I love the usage of hip-hop music since some students would only be able to experience this kind of music at home or on their own. Incorporating it into informative and exciting videos allows students to connect more with what they are learning. The website is also easy to use. I would not recommend relying solely on this website, but it is a great starting point that teachers can create activities or further lessons from.
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