Featured 6-26-2014: Sharplet

Sharplet

 

Sharplet is a new web app that promises users will remember more in less time using the spaced repetition learning method to optimally schedule flashcard review sessions.

 

 

Spaced repetition is a learning technique that utilizes increasing intervals of time between subsequent review of previously learned material in order to take advantage of the psychological spacing effect. The amount of time between learning sessions is a determining factor in long-term memory formation, not the amount of time spent learning.

 

During your study sessions, grade flashcards on how well you recall them. Cards are scheduled for review based on these grades. Cards you know well will move further ahead in the review schedule so you will see them less often. The progressively increasing review period between each card moves knowledge quickly from your short to long-term memory.

 

 

The founders of Sharplet believe that some flashcard applications may be good but are lacking essential features and none seem to be fully integrating spaced repetition. They endeavored to make Sharplet easy to use and to provide the appropriate features that will allow users to have fun while learning.

 

 Currently Sharplet does not have dedicated mobile apps but the website will adapt to the screen of size of your device so you can study a course on any device. Dedicated IOS and Android apps are planned for the near future.

 

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Featured 6-3-2014: FlipQuiz

 

Create gameshow-type boards for use in the classroom quickly and easily with FlipQuiz™. 

 

Great for use with an interactive whiteboard, FlipQuiz displays your questions on-screen and boards can be saved for later use. Well-designed boards can help keep students interested and engaged.

 

 

Begin by signing up for a free FlipQuiz account, and you’ll immediately be ready to start creating your own game boards. An easy-to-use creation page and editor provide all the tools you need to set up all of your game boards. Presentation mode lets you easily display quiz boards on-screen in your classroom. Boards can be saved in your account for future use.

 

As well as adding questions to each of your game boards, you can also add the answers if you wish, allowing you to walk about the classroom hosting the game virtually hands-free. This feature also means you can give give students a link to quiz themselves at home.

 

 Try a demo of FlipQuiz

 

A FlipQuiz Pro account adds team scoring while playing, up to 10 teams can play at once, use images in your boards, custom points, and more.

 

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Featured 5-21-2014: ChalkUp

 

ChalkUp is a student engagement platform designed to foster real-time school-work collaboration, learning, and studying, ChalkUp enables students to ask questions, discuss and share interesting educational content, and work with each other.

 

Dashboard is a real-time feed where you can comment on discussions, submit assignments, and even view files. Chalkup keeps all assignments, quizzes, and tests in one place.

 

Assignments can be delivered to students quickly and in real-time. Drag-and-drop a document from your computer or use one that you have stored on Google Drive or Google Apps for Education. Create folders, rename files to be organized.

 

Students can turn in assignments as easily as dragging-and-dropping, uploading as many files as necessary. Annotate and grade uploaded file submissions right inside ChalkUp. Personalize feedback with a quick note.

 

 

Messaging lets the people in your class chat in real-time and share files with each other. Teachers can send messages to students to clarify, remind, and keep them engaged. Chalkup uses 256-bit AES encryption to make sure your messages are safe.

 

The free version of ChalkUp provides 1 GB of storage per class with a file size limit of 25 MB, and all the core features including integrated flashcards.

 

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Extra: 1-1-2014 Cram

Flashcards can help you organize information in a way that helps you learn more efficiently. Cram  an online flashcard tool, utilizes the Leitner System of studying. This system has helped thousands of students around the world memorize large amounts of information.

 

About 40 years ago, Sebastian Leitner devised a learning system that made selective learning possible with less effort. The system consists of a box separated into a number of compartments. The compartments are filled with flashcards that are moved from one compartment to another, according to the current level of knowledge. When a flashcard is answered correctly, it is promoted to the next compartment. When a flashcard is answered incorrectly, it is demoted to the first compartment. 

Cram can automatically hide cards you already know so that you can focus on the ones you don't. Flashcard sets can also become memorization games. Cram can easily make your flashcards into multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank and matching questions so you can test yourself.

 

 View the video Make flashcards and quizzes with the Cram app

 

Cram also offers mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry, to take your flashcards with you and study anywhere.

 

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Extra: 12-23-2013 Problem-Attic

Problem-Attic makes a large body of questions available for free to the education community, for personalized learning and teaching. 

 

Tens of thousands of questions from a variety of sources including the NY Regents, state assessments, NAEP and TIMSS, and three NC math contest organizations can be found at Problem-Attic.

 

 

All of the questions are in a database, organized by topic, and individually selectable and re-formattable. They can be inserted into all kinds of new documents: tests and quizzes, worksheets, flash cards, and slides. 

 

 View Welcome to Problem-Attic!

Problem-Attic is a product of EducAide Software, which has a long history of developing question banks and other teaching/testing tools. 

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Featured: 12-12-2013 Anki

Anki is a program which has been designed to make remembering things easier. Decrease the time spent studying, or increase the amount you learn.

People who need to remember things can benefit from Anki. It can be applied to study all kinds of content, supporting images, audio, videos, and LaTeX for science/mathematics.

Some possible uses for Anki might include language learning, studying for professional exams, memorizing names and faces, brushing up on geography, and more.

Features:

• The free AnkiWeb synchronization service keeps your cards in sync across multiple devices.
• Anki has a numerous options for customization, from card layout to review timing.
• Embed audio clips, images, videos and scientific markup on your cards, with precise control over how it's shown.
• Anki can handle decks of more than 100,000 cards.
• It's fully extensible with a large number of add-ons available.

 Watch an Ankitutorial

AnkiWeb is a free companion to the downloadable version of Anki and can be used to review online when you don't have access to your home computer.

Anki works on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, any device with a web browser.

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Featured: 12-11-2013 ExamTime

The aim of ExamTime is to change the way you learn, with more engagement, more understanding, and an enriched learning experience.

ExamTime provides free study tools that empower students to build best practices into their study habits:

• Goal setting
• Personal learning styles
• Comprehension techniques
• Brainstorming
• Practice & testing
• Collaborative learning

Intuitive and easy-to-use tools allow users to create, discover, and share engaging study resources such as mindmaps, flashcards, notes, and quizzes using ExamTime.

With ExamTime teachers can easily form learning groups to share resources and conduct discussions. The structure of groups simulates the organization of a real classroom online. Ask a question or share an article or study resource and let your students react, respond, and engage. 

Timetable tools let you drag-and-drop your subjects onto your calendar, setting up flexible and responsive schedules that allow you to make changes as needed. The goal setting feature allows you to mark important dates such as exams and assign tasks that need to be completed by due dates.

Any Mindmap or Note you create can be instantly turned into a presentation. Use the Mindmap tool for giving introductory presentations. Notes allow you to embed more media: videos, images, audio, links, even slideshows.

 See a video overview of ExamTime

ExamTime is a Web-app and can be accessed via the internet browser on any Android or iOS device.

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COD - 10/18/2012 - Superflashcard [Flashcards]

Superflashcard is a web app to create, study, and review flashcards using the theory of spaced repetition for long-term memory management.

 

 

The Superflashcard memory management system utilizes repetition with an optimal interval to help you avoid forgetting what you've learned and retain information faster and longer.

 

Create flashcards for what you want to memorize. Review your flashcards anywhere using a Superflashcard mobile app with an optimal schedule based on your own "forgetting" curve.

 

The community database enables you to discover new flashcards created by other Superflashcard users. Share your flashcards with others as well.

 

 

Superflashcard is available at Android Market, Apple Store, and Amazon App Store. Apps for Windows phones and Blackberry phones are being developed.

 

A basic Superflashcard account is free and allows an unlimited number of flashcards, spaced repetition, import/export, and printing. The premium account (free for educators) adds more image capacity and personalization.

 

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COD - 10/17/2012 - Teachem [Video]

Teachem makes it possible for anyone to create a class from YouTube videos by adding time stamped flashcards and review questions.

 

 

There is a lot of video on YouTube, including over 700,000 educational videos in its EDU channel. Teachem feels that while this leads to a lot of opportunity it can also be very overwhelming. Starting a class on Teachem can take as little as 30 seconds.

 

You can go further than just creating a single class. You can first create a school. Then you can create as many classes as you want in that school by adding time-stamped flashcards and review questions to the videos. You can have as many schools as you want, making them open to the public or private just for your own class.

 

Teachem is a free and easy way to share your subject outside of the classroom. Create classes from your own collection of videos, or easily add any of the thousands of other YouTube videos on your chosen topic. Add your time-stamped flashcards at any point to any videos.

 

 

An unusual and interesting feature of Teachem is that the FAQ page is a series videos using their own features.

 

Watch a video: Teachem: Learning Has Never Been Easier!

The creators of Teachem believe their website can do for teaching what blogging did for publishing, open it up to the masses.

 

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INKids Launches Kids Flashcard Maker [iOS]

Kids Flashcard Maker from INKids gives parents and kids tools to create their own beautiful flashcards for learning new words at home or in the classroom.

Kids Flashcard Maker is now available in the App Store. Add your own photos, images from the web, and text using the flashcard wizard.

You can even record your own words or add videos from popular video sites or directly from your camera roll. Making great looking flash cards that children will enjoy using has never been easier! 

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COD - 6/7/2012 - More Language Resources [Languages]

Just in time for summer travel, EDge21's Catch of the Day this week featured a number of online resources to support foreign language learning, wrapping up with these three websites that each offer substantial compilations of language learning resources.

Word2Word provides links to free online language courses in the hope of all people developing a better understanding of others through the use of language. They have attempted to place as many online courses at your disposal as possible. The courses vary widely in quality and the quantity of material presented. 

 

Learn a Language is an extensive, free website providing resources to learn languages including hundreds of free language-learning lessons, games, and activities. You can learn over 1,400 words for free. There are interactive audio/visual flashcards to help you learn. You can also learn important phrases like greetings, survival expressions, and slang words in the language of your choice.

 

The Open Culture collection features lessons in 40 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Most are available as downloadable audio lessons for your computer, iPod, or other audio player.

Go to previous EDge21 posts about language learning sites

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COD - 5/10/2012 - Musicards [Music]

Musicards is an ever-growing collection of highly-customizable online music theory flash cards.

Musicards can be used by both beginning music students who are becoming acquainted with key rudiments of music, as well as intermediate and advanced students who want to fill in gaps in their existing knowledge or increase their music fluency.

Musicards are grouped in eight categories: Note Names, Key Signatures, Intervals, Triads, Piano Note Names, Reading Piano Notes, Guitar Note Names, and Reading Guitar Notes.

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Catch of The Day - The Math Salamanders - 11/15/2011

The Math Salamanders website is a large bank of free printable math worksheets as well as many fun math activities and games, flashcards, and fact sheets.

The materials found atThe Math Salamanders is intended for all students in grades K-5 (ages 5-10). Browsing by the age categories, you can easily find the appropriate level of printable math sheets. You can browse by topics such as fractions, place value, geometry, or money. Browse by the type of resource: help, games, facts, etc, or search by keyword.

All the math worksheets and other resources found on this website are original materials produced and copyrighted by the Math Salamanders and support the elementary math benchmarks produced by Achieve, Inc.

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StudyBlue Adds Premium Features

StudyBlue, a subject of previous posts here, is a free online tool to mobilize your lecture notes and make flashcards.

Recently StudyBlue began offering StudyBlue+, a paid upgrade from their free service. StudyBlue+ includes these premium features:

• Advanced study filters to study the toughest stuff more.
• Unlimited study reminders.
• Hide cards you know to spend more time on ones you don’t.
• Make study guides, package a folder of flashcards into a tidy deck.
• No ads.

Upgrade pricing is $10/month ($80/year) and users can earn a free month for every three referrals that sign up.

Go to earlier posts about StudyBlue

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Quizlet Adds New Tools and Features

Quizlet, a free website where you can make, find, use, and share flashcards to study vocabulary, languages, and more, was first mentioned here in October of last year.

Quizlet has just announced several new features including a new study mode, Speller, and text-to-speech audio in 18 languages.

With Speller you type what you hear. Listen to a term or definition and type in the correct response. If you make a mistake, Quizlet will show you which letters you missed and spell the word out for you so you can try again.

An improved Create Flashcards page even easier to use. Now the symbols and accents needed for languages are there automatically. Importing data takes just one click. And you can edit existing flashcard sets right from the main flashcard mode page.

The Quizlet user interface is now available in German, French, Chinese, and Japanese.

See earlier posts about Quizlet

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Catch of the Day - Memorize.com - 5/9/2011

 

Memorize.com is designed to help you remember and understand information using interactive learning pages you or others create.

Create your own Memorize.com pages on topics of interest to you. Pages can have most of the standard elements of a web page: descriptive paragraphs, tables, bulleted lists, images, headings and subheadings, etc.

You can also search or browse Memorize.com to find shared pages created by other users that appeal to you.

Except for some advanced features such as creating a large number of private pages, everything on Memorize.com is free.

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Catch of the Day - WordStash - 5/6/2011

WordStash allows you to create your own customizable digital flashcards.

WordStash is built on a dictionary with over 200,000 English words and phrases. This lets you create vocabulary flashcards with existing definitions, saving you time.

WordStash has added contextual sentences for almost every word in the dictionary using material from actual news sources on the Internet.

WordStash calculates the optimal time to study each flashcard using multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank quizzes. This adaptive learning system adjusts to your progress and will quiz you on a flashcard at the best time.

Teachers can open a free WordStash account and create classes to share lists of flashcards with their students.

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