Thursday, December 1, 2011

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.

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Stacy Cierkowski · 695 weeks ago

Ok this is AWESOME! I really HATE flashcarding kids! But my kids would love making their own! I think they would even USE them! :) LOL Trying this on Friday at 3:00, i'll let you know how this goes!
Stacy
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Christine Thurston · 695 weeks ago

I agree! I think the kids will enjoy creating them and using them at home. What are you planning to have them create? I would recommend having each student create a different set of flash cards so they can share with one another. You can post them on your SWIFT site for everyone to access. Brandon Betlach (5th grade at GPES) has a set of science falsh cards on his website and directions for adding them to ITunes to access on an iPod, iPad, or iPhone.
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ch Rachel Cragar · 690 weeks ago

I think I am going to have my fifth graders create flash cards for each other for science. I think that it is a good tool to hold themselves accountable for information. I may go on to Brandon's website to show them examples. Thanks Brandon!
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Christine Thurston · 690 weeks ago

How do you plan to have them share their flash cards? Will you put them on your SWIFT site or e-mail them to families?

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