{"id":12,"date":"2007-01-30T22:21:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-01-30T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T06:23:21","slug":"flash-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Flash cards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found this great application for the Mac called <a href=\"http:\/\/loopware.com\/iflash\/\">iFlash<\/a>.  It allows you to create your own (virtual) flash card decks.  Flash cards hearken back to elementary school days&#8230; why would anyone want to use such a boring old metaphor for testing their memory?  Aha!  Because of the following iFlash features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cards can have more than two sides (I know my topology friends will love that).  This is useful, for example, when studying Japanese; you can have kanji, kana, romaji, and English versions of the same word\/phrase on different sides of the same card.\n<li>You can attach pictures to any side of any card via drag-and-drop.\n<li>You can record sound clips (or attach existing sound files) to any side of any card.  This is <i>ideal<\/i> for a foreign language flash card deck.  (You could even attach the sound of the word\/phrase to a blank side of the card, to strictly drill listening comprehension.)\n<li>iFlash will shuffle the cards (if desired) and then drill you on them.  You indicate whether or not  you &#8220;got it&#8221; for each card, and it records this (as &#8220;memorized&#8221;) so that you can visually see your progress.  It can also use this information to bias future card choices towards ones that you don&#8217;t yet have memorized.  There are three different scoring methods you can choose between.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/share\/iFlash-screenshot.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=200 src=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/share\/iFlash-screenshot.png\" border=1 class=\"floatRight\"><\/a><br \/>\nAt right you can see a screenshot (click to enlarge) I took of the flash card file I started, using the vocabulary that&#8217;s been covered so far in the sixteen lessons I&#8217;ve had from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\">japanesepod101.com<\/a>.  You can see that I&#8217;ve entered all of the hiragana &#8220;sides&#8221; and am in the process of filling in the English sides.  (Actually, one of the English entries is wrong in this screenshot; anyone catch it?)<\/p>\n<p>This would have come in very handy when I was memorizing mineral chemical compositions in Mineralogy three years ago!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found this great application for the Mac called iFlash. It allows you to create your own (virtual) flash card decks. Flash cards hearken back to elementary school days&#8230; why would anyone want to use such a boring old metaphor for testing their memory? Aha! Because of the following iFlash features: Cards can have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}