Ediscio

Wendy McElroy from Camosun College gave a shout out about this tool via Twitter as one of the fun Web 2.0 tools she wants to try. Ediscio is a free service for creating and sharing flashcards online. Ediscio is useful for individuals and for studying in groups. You can also share your cardboxes with others. Here is a list of main features:

• Create and share flashcards online
• Work collaboratively on flashcard sets
• Enrich flashcards by images (upload), videos, and LaTeX-based math formulas, and many text formatting possibilities (Word-like interface)
• Automatic, customizable learning schedule according to Leitner system
• Query modes which help focusing on weak spots
• Query options include swapping of question and answer, and an automatic comparison mode
• Learning statistics as tag-cloud, based on keywords which are assigned to flashcards
• Visualization of learning progress as a diagram
• Long-term statistics and after each learning session
• Rights management for each cardbox
• Catalog of all cardboxes which are configured for public access
• Import, export, (XLS, CSV, Html) and print flashcards
• Social network features like making friends, mail; and automatically finding experts for specific keywords among friends
• Classroom features which help a teacher to assign cardboxes to a whole class
• Newsfeed about activities in cardboxes of class
• Learning statistics which relate to a whole class