Mobile Prep – One more reason your cell phone is no longer a toy.
While I’ve never been a huge fan of flash cards, they certainly have their place in education. Let’s be honst, practice makes perfect, and sometimes there’s just no substitute for it.
I remember spending hours creating flash cards on 3×5 note cards, spending hour after hour practicing with them, and then after the test trying to figure out what to do with them. Usually they sat on a shelf for a few weeks until I finally threw them away.
Mobile Prep takes flash cards and puts a 21st century spin on them. Your cell phone becomes your mobile flash card studio. Since you always have it on you, you can study any time you have a few minutes free. Among the features listed in the demo are the ability to randomize the quesitons and take out the ones you already know.
Of course, you do need to create all the questions and answers before you can get to studying, right? Well that’s where things get really interesting. You can create your own “decks” and then sell them to other students! So if you need to study the periodic table, you can either create your own set of flash cards for free, or you can pay a few bucks to buy somebody else’s. If you take the time to make an amazing studyguide for the American Revolution, put it up for sale and maybe you can make a few bucks on the side! Might as well get paid for your efforts, right?
The idea is good and the site looks promising. I’m looking forward to seeing how this one develops.
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StudyStack.com allows students to enter data for flashcards. The site automatically displays the same data as a matching game, hangman game, word search puzzle, and crossword puzzle. The data can also be downloaded to your PDA, cell phone, or iPod.
John Weidner
6/24/2006
Mobile Prep is very exciting for students. I will defintely encourage mine to use it to study. I found the user interface to be easy and great, since they don’t require brouser time. So impressed, I followed CEO James Wen’s trail and found him very educated himself with degrees from Brown and Cornell as well as RISD. Finally, a good use for my students’ cell phones.
Evelyn Natila
6/25/2006
I was looking for something like this for my ESL exam and I tried both. StudyShack has a lot of content but the program was not as nice as Mobile Prep in using. It was hard to find things too but maybe that will be true too for Mobile Prep when their library is big. You should talk to each other or something. I would like more content on Mobile Prep. What’s RISD?
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