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Social Learning Objects - Flash Cards

Tony Karrer

You can add pictures or sounds to flashcards or with a Java applet, you can record sounds right into flashcards, which also is great for language learning. For spelling, you can enter the word and the system has text-to-speech to create a sound that is the prompt that you then have to spell.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Prediction #4 => Text-to-Speech Growth Accelerates Watson (the IBM machine that beat humans on Jeopardy) shows us how intelligent machines can help answer certain kinds of questions.