Thing 16

I spent some time today looking at the online productivity tools. I wasn't really impressed by many of them. I finally selected Knowtes to examine. This program allows you to make online notecards to study from. You can share the notecards with a group. The group can also add notecards to the pack ( if you allow them). The notecards can be sorted into a variety of different Tags that you select. It also allows you to be tested by the notecards. The problem with the testing is that the computer isn't involved in determining if you got the correct answer. You have to visually examine the answer and then tell the computer if you got it correct or not.

After reviewing this program, I thought it was a bit of a gimic. Why not take index cards and write your notes on them? How often would you share notecards with a friend or a group of people anyway? Maybe I am very old school but I just don't see this as being very useful to me. To a student who doesn't like to write but prefers to stare at a computer screen, this would probably be up their alley. For me, old school is probably the better option.