iPod/Cell Phone Flash Cards

One day Kimberly and I were talking and somehow the idea of creating flash cards came up. She suggested creating flash cards for students to access using their iPods. While searching online she came across Mr. Coley's website. (Unfortunately Mr. Coley moved into an administrative position and will no longer be updating his website. But lucky for us all his wonderful work and ideas will live online forever!) Mr. Coley has been kind enough to give us directions on how to create flash cards for our students using PowerPoint. It's so easy that you could have your students create them! He also has a library of flash cards that he has created. I was eager to try it myself and realized that in addition to parents/students putting the flash cards on an iPod, I could e-mail the PowerPoint presentation or JPEGs to parents and they could then open the attachments on their cell phone and allow their child to practice their vocabulary, math facts, and/or spelling words in the car or grocery store. They could also access them on their home computer. There are so many ways to help our students succeed!

For this weeks post:

Explain how you could see yourself using/creating flash cards for your students. How would you provide access to your cards for parents/students? Give it a try using his directions/tutorials and let us know your successes and challenges.