CoboCards -Collaborative Flashcards
July 28th, 2009

CoboCards.com not only lets you create flashcards with friends, but it also lets you study online with friends. There’s no need to sit across the desk from a friend; CoboCards will flash the answer in front of you and your friend, and he or she will then let you know whether you got it right or wrong! It’s a wonderful study tool to use, because it also allows a ‘team,’ or class of students, to create flashcards for their learning together. Then, when the flashcards are created, students can work collaboratively within the site to learn the material! I make sure that the questions from the flashcards show up on tests so the students feel good about studying hard. I’d also make sure to throw a few flashcards out there myself to ensure that the flashcards are going over the correct material. If I assigned a class of 20 students to do 4 flashcards each, I’d have a pretty big library of flash cards! If NCVPS course shells assigned students in Spanish I to create 4 flash cards each, we’d have one heck of a huge collection of Spanish flash cards!


Here’s a Big Idea for Online Education:
July 7th, 2009

Changing the system, changing incentive and motivation, and changing the approach we take to online education… with some interesting hypotheses. Enjoy the presentation: