The Savvy Technologist

Software review: iFlash 2.5

As much as we’d all like our students to spend all of their time doing hard-core constructivist school work, the fact remains that a lot of the learning we ask kids to do is not much more than memorization. So until cranial expansion slots are commonplace there will be a place for software like iFlash.

iFlash is a Mac OS X application for creating and sharing sets of flash cards. Their Web site has a good description:

iFlash includes many great features to help you study. You can record audio directly into any flash-card (great for foreign languages), as well as attach images. Other features include an unlimited amount of card sides per deck, advanced importing and exporting, iPod support, quick-searching, and a beautiful interface that is strikingly similar to other iApplications (like iTunes and iPhoto).

As cool as it is to have flash cards that can include images, audio, and multiple sides per card, I love the fact that teachers can create sets of cards to share with their students and students can share cards with one another. (Practicing on your iPod is pretty cool too.) I’ve purchased a district license for this software and it will be included on the laptops in our one-to-one computing project next year.

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