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Technology Tools

Expand your teaching toolkit with technology tools. Find reviews of tech tools, gadgets and software that can be used in your classroom to complement and augment your curriculum.

Learning in a Flash

Remember the days of fumbling around with cardboard flash cards for practicing and memorizing of vocabulary, number concepts or history facts? Now, online tools provide easy creation, storage and exporting of electronic flashcards for real-time student learning. Websites such as Scholastic’s Homework Hub offer tools to construct online flashcards for simple math concepts and memorization of vocabulary or facts. In fact, Scholastic’s format allows the user to immediately use the flashcards after they are developed. Flashcard Machine permits selection of shared flashcard sets as well as creation of your own set, and it also allows the addition of images and audio to the flashcards. Registration for an account is required, but it offers teachers the ability to set up multiple-accounts within theirs for student use. Another tool, Flashcard Exchange, provides the ability to study, print or export the sets you create or those created by others. These flashcards can include hints, three sides and user can automatically monitor the time spent studying. Study Stack provides a multitude of already developed flashcard sets including information from simple addition to astronomy facts. It uniquely allows the sets to be turned into a different study mode, such as study table, hangman game, crossword puzzle or a matching activity. Many of these online tools can provide anytime/anywhere learning with printing features or ability to export the flash cards to a cell phone, PDA or iPod. Use of these Internet tools brings a new look and way to memorize facts, words and number concepts.

Disclaimer: The Corporation for Educational Technology (Buddy) has no agenda other than the interests of K-12 educators. Technology product reviews render no financial incentive to our organization.

This article appeared in the ETC...and More! volume 2, number 8 newsletter and is published by the Buddy Project (Corporation for Educational Technology), in collaboration with the Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators (HECC), Indiana Computer Educators (ICE), the Indiana Department of Education, and Promoting Achievement through Technology and INstruction for all Students (PATINS).