Memrise
Imagination: imagining and visualizing a situation is critical in helping the data effectively stick in your mind for later recall. The imagery you use in your mnemonics can be as vivid as you like, as long as it helps you to remember.
Association: these can involve :
- Placing things on top of each other.
- Placing images together.
- Wrapping them around each other.
- Rotating them around each other.
Working with a digital tool like Memrise students can incorporate both their imagination and ways of association to the vocabulary that they are attempting to memorise.
Memrise is a site created to learn just about everything through the combination of mnemonics and gaming mechanics. It has made our language learning lessons a lot of fun and vocab additions most functional as well.
Take a look at the picture on the left … you can type in phrases to match your own way of thinking about vocabulary in the target language.
It is a little like a Quizlet program and it helps by providing visuals as memory tools for words. There is also another program that does something similar called Anki. And another small program called Brain Flips that helps students make flashcards.
What has been working well in our classroom
At present, my preference is to use Memrise for individuals trying to commit words and phrases to the long term memory.
With Memrise you have to create an account to use it. Below is a quick snap shot of my account. There is a great data bank of other 
teacher’s vocab lists that you can tap into and use. But I really like my students to build their own lists.
Will post more about Memrise lists later.