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Studycard multimedia flashcards - 2.0 adds printing, import, export
Studycard Studio 2.0, and the free Studycard Studio Lite 2.0 are two new versions of Digital Meadow's multimedia flashcard applications for Mac OS X and OS 9.
Studycard Studio 2.0 offers the ability to print individual cards or multiple cards per sheet, with the question on the front and the answer on the back. Users can even print on perforated card sheets available at most office supply stores. What's more, by printing to a PDF file, users can view and study their cards in a variety of applications, including Acrobat Reader or Keynote, and on different platforms, including Palm OS.
The new version imports and exports text, CSV (comma separated values) and iFlash files encoded as styled text, RTF (Rich Text Format) or Unicode, allowing users to create their cards using virtually any text editor or spreadsheet application. The features allow for exchange between other flashcard applications that support these formats.
By selecting a card to use as a template, users can import all their cards preformatted. Users can also import from EDICT and CEDICT Japanese and Chinese dictionaries and use them to enhance their vocabulary. A variety of these free dictionary files exist on the web for downloading.
The new version has improved performance in order to facilitate importing and studying very large documents such as dictionaries. It can now smoothly handle 100,000 or more cards in a document.
Other new features include, find and replace, resizable thumbnails, and a sort command to order and group cards with a slew of options.
For teachers, parents, and presenters, Studycard Studio is an industrial strength helper. It makes the task of building multimedia, multilingual flashcards a snap. But don't let the name "flash cards" mislead you. This program simply helps you build any type of training aid that is based on questions and answers. Build quizzes and tutorials and include your favorite video, picture and sound identification. It's a dream come true for ESL teachers, or foreign languages -- and any lesson or test can have speech. Higher level trainers can generate self-paced teaching lessons where the student progresses at their own speed, keeping their own score.
Studycard Studio includes features shown to reduce study time and improve retention, including automatic daily scheduling based on the Leitner cardfile system. With flexible card design, a variety of study methods, options and question types, users can create quizzes for a variety of material.
Studycard Studio Lite 2.0, is a lite version fewer features. You can download this lite version for free!
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