Quizlet ™ Flashcard based memory testing

Quizlet™ is a rather good flashcard based learning tools.

You can create your own set of flashcards or use the large library created by others and made public.

The flashcards allow you to learn subject terms in a number of ways, and test yourself or your students also in a number of ways, including quiz questions and a couple of game based tests.

I personally particularly enjoyed the scatter game, where you have to drag terms onto their definitions, or vice versa, against the clock. You can then repeat the game and try to beat your best time.

This demo screencast explains Quizlet™ nicely.

Existing flashcards you can use to learn with are categorized into:

• Arts & Literature
  • Literature
  • Authors
  • Books
  • Music
  • Visual Arts
  • Performing Arts
  • Others
• Languages & Vocabulary
  • Parts of Speech
  • English and European Languages
  • Asian & Pacific Languages
  • Chinese Languages
  • Japanese Languages
  • Indian Languages
  • Middle Eastern Languages
  • Slavic Languages
  • Others
• Maths & Science
  • Chemistry
  • Earth Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Health Sciences
  • Life Sciences
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
• History & Geography
  • Anthropology
  • Civics
  • History
  • Religion
  • Countries
  • Regions
  • Cities
• Standardized Tests
• Professional & Careers
  • Business & Financial
  • Computers & Engineering
  • Healthcare & Medicine
  • Law
  • Others

Block Posters

I was immediately impressed with Block Posters.

You can take any of your images and then decide how you’d like it sliced up. Download the pdf file and each of these slices can now be printed out and put together to create a great big poster.

This can be used to create artworks around your home, blow ups of your favourite photos at a fraction of the price, etc. Also, it can be used in the classroom for displaying material to students, or by students to display their ideas and emphasis their points. Extending that idea, when university students have to produce posters this could be an alternative to expensive production via professional printers; I’m all for reducing the cost of education. But for an alternative approach remember Glogster.

Mobile based artwork & the PhoneBook

In Japan there seems to be a craze for creating artwork for mobile phones, as the majority have something called FlashLite running. Investigating this a little has termed up festivals relating to ‘Pocket Films’, the creation of video specifically for mobiles; the synchronizing of art between two phones to give a sense of connectedness between partners, Hanbunko; and a ‘concept’ from the Mobile Art Lab that combines the iPhone with a book to create

Subject Professor – Social Sciences and Arts

I first happened upon the Economics version of the “Professor” series of these Social Sciences and Arts sites, each of which has the subject preceding Professor. They include:

• EconomyProfessor.com
• PoliticsProfessor.com
• SociologyProfessor.com
• PhilosophyProfessor.com
• TheologyProfessor.com
• ArtProfessor.com

Each of the different sites is of the same format, generally with terms categorized into theories and theorists, or their equivalent for the particular subject. Each of the terms is then defined, in a similar way to that in a dictionary or glossary of terms. The definitions are trawled from primary or secondary sources, and you can suggest amendments or additions.

There also tends to be a couple of useful links out from each site, be that to a discussion forum or online journals, etc.

These appear to be useful sites to students of the subjects, however, these aren’t my particular subject areas, so, as always, you’d need to assess them against other sources to validate accuracy.