6 Awesome Web Tools For Creating Digital Flashcards For Free
Posted on 22. Dec, 2011 by Guest.Post in Internet Tools
In this day and age, flashcards are a far cry from the slick web apps and compact mobile devices we use on a daily basis. They’re a traditional learning tool that can be tough to manage.
Think of it. Carrying around a huge stack can get tricky with only a rubber band holding it together. Worse yet, losing one can be disastrous, as you won’t have that one missing factoid in your arsenal when you need it.
Despite all the potential mishaps, you have to admit that, however cumbersome they may be, flashcards work. So the real issue is how to make them work with how your digital lifestyle.
Believe it or not, you can easily get your flashcards up to snuff with today’s tech by creating digital ones. Thanks to these online flashcard sites, all it takes is a quick registration process, and you can start creating your own—for free.
The best part is that these sites go beyond just generating digital squares of information. They’re designed to help you study with them, as well. Take a look.
StudyBlue.com
At the top of this list is StudyBlue. Here you’ll have your own Backpack dashboard where all your study cards are easily organized and stored by folder. As to flashcards, StudyBlue is versatile and will let you add text, images, and audio content to them for any type studying you need to do.
You can use your flashcards as a review sheet content, as a quiz, or as standard flashcards. Just customize how you want to be tested by shuffling or changing the sequence and you’re all set.
Other features include support for Android and Apple phones and sharing integration with Facebook, Evernote, and Twitter.
FlashCardMachine
FlashcardMachine offers you advanced or basic creation options, so you can get as fancy or simple as you like with your flashcards. They’ll appear as cue cards you can click to flip and reveal the answer.
One thing you’ll notice is that this site is also a wide database of existing flashcards on a ton of subjects. When you create your cards, you can specify if you want them added to the public database. By searching others’ flashcards and making yours accessible as well, you and everyone else can really test what you know on the subject.
FlashCardExchange.com
Like FlashCardMachine, FlashcardExchange.com is centered around creating a database of flashcards for a more comprehensive learning approach. Import your own existing flashcards from other popular formats and even link to your public homepage and share your cards with your study buddies.
The studying options available are a great feature of this site. For one thing, this site monitors your studying sessions in detail to gauge your progress. For another, flashcards can include hints to help you along on tough subjects. And for the thorough studiers, there’s “Cram Mode,” a study method to ensure you have everything memorized right down to the letter.
BrainFlips
BrainFlips is a user friendly community where you can create study groups as well as flashcards. Building cards is simple via the Card Builder editor, where you can set the deck name, keywords, and visibility settings.
One thing that stands out about creating flashcards with BrainFlips is that you can also include multiple choice responses on the answer side of the card. You’ll also be able to add Hints and Rationale notes alongside the answers to help you learn the material effectively. To study, you can view them as Q &A’s, regular flashcards, or test your knowledge by typing the answers in yourself.
Quizlet.com
Just when you think flashcard creator sites didn’t have anything more to offer, along comes Quizlet with its innovative approach. This site offers study and game modes that make learning with the flashcards you create fun and effective.
Challenge your recognition speed, test your reaction time to typing up your answers, or prepare yourself with flashcard reviews. If you’re interested, mobile apps are available for Android, Windows Mobile, webOS, iPad and iPhone.
Koofers.com
If you’re currently a university student, Koofers is the site for you. This site is focused on providing students with past academic test and exam resources, and as you can guess also offers a tool that lets you generate your own flashcards to help in studying that material.
Select your university to focus your search on flashcard sets made by previous students or contributors who attended the same school. In other words, in addition to creating your own study material, you can also find ready-made flash cards for the same courses you’re taking.
Each one will have something for you whatever your studying needs may be. So go ahead and get rid of the cards. Keep them online wherever and whenever you need them.
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Guest Post Written by Reena Cruz who writes for Investintech.com, a leading developer of PDF Converter Solutions. In addition to writing about the latest PDF and tech trends online, she loves to write about social media and productivity in the workplace on the company’s blog. Find out more at @able2extract.
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