Tituli Micantes

Quizlet

I found this on a blog made by a science teacher classmate of mine. I think we've all used, or at least been told to use, flash cards at one point or another. I'm not sure how well they've worked for me personally in the past. Here's a site that allows you to make a set of flashcards and test yourself in various ways.

Negatives:
~ Physical flashcards can go to the library, to your friends house, to the beach, in the car, to places computers can't go. Until we all have some kind of smart phone, when a free moment for a little bit of studying arises, we can't pull out flashcards stored on the internet.
~ I always thought that the physical act of writing out the flashcards by hand increased information retention.

Positives:
~ Teaches good strategies for how to use flashcards effectively, strategies that can apply to physical flashcards should the digital ones not be available.
~ The ability to make groups to share sets of flashcards and have a discussion forum could be really useful for cooperative learning.
~ Various forms of testing.
~ Games: simple as they may be, it's no less than simplistic than your standard addictive computer puzzle game, and those are always fun.

Maybe not a paradigm shifting tool, but a useful tool nonetheless. Happy studying!