SocialDecks: Flashcards That Are Tagged
This is the first application in our series of web 2.0 flashcard application reviews. For an introduction to this category, including a rundown of features common to all four applications reviewed this week, please see: Online Flashcards: Using Web 2.0 To Learn.
As most flashcard applications do, SocialDecks offers a chance for users to study by subject and prompt, but SocialDecks takes a different perspective on how to get users to the cards. Rather than pulling a topic by title SocialDecks uses tags to bring cards together, allowing users to combine them into related decks.
The benefit of placing the emphasis on keywords, is that users can generate their own decks of information based on what’s already there. If you imagine that five people were to put in five words of Spanish on separate cards, and you were to pull up the tag of Spanish, then there would be a deck of five cards ready for studying. To offer another option for grouping, SocialDecks also has standard decks (cards combined by users), and groups (users combining to study a subject).
Users will find that creating cards in SocialDecks is easy enough (it’s done through a question and answer form, with one question at a time), but may find it too simple because there are no options to make it possible to test. Tests do not exist in SocialDecks, but users are also able to gain points with each correct answer and try to beat the high scores on the “Leaders” page.
Along with lacking the ability to test, there is no way to see the flashcards in a different view; however, the main problem with SocialDecks is a color scheme that is like a nightmare in a dentist’s waiting room. Plenty of space on a purple, pink, and gray page makes for a painful user experience that may dissuade users from SocialDecks’ features.
To read more about SocialDecks or to find similar flashcard applications there is the Listio search: flashcards+learn. To find other e-learning applications, there is the Listio tag, education.
Previously in this series: Online Flashcards: Using Web 2.0 To Learn
Next in this series: FlashcardDB: Learning With A System
Application: SocialDecksListio Profile: http://www.listio.com/web20/app/SocialDecks/
Website: http://www.socialdecks.com
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