Remember flash cards – the 3×5 index cards with questions and answered written on them? I must have written hundreds of them in school as I tried to memorize a few non-dirty words for a Spanish exam or some unnecessarily verbose sentence for a vocab test.
Anyway, some bright spark has had the bright idea to turn them into desktop popups to help you learn languages, geography or anything else you might like.
After you install Popling, a screen will occasionally popup prompting you with a question (you set the frequency). If you ignore it, it goes away and if you click on it you’re asked a question.
From the site:
People who are a particular kind of lazy have ideas about how to get their work done without working …
The thought process went something like this:
- I’m in front of my computer all day.
- What if my computer showed me a flash card every few minutes?
- Hmmm… 8 hours, 5 minuites between cards = 96 cards.
- Anyone could learn anything with this!
There are pre-set ‘poplings’ for a range of topics, your scores are saved to help encourage you and there is an ad-free pro version for $20 a year.
Having said that, the greatest potential comes from the ability to create poplings on any topic you like. We can envisage branded versions, sponsored versions, iPhone apps and individual companies using them as innovative online content.
There’s a suggestion page on the site so if you can think of a cool way to work with Popling, go suggest.
Site: www.popling.net
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What a fab idea.
Wonder if that would work with pop-up videos? Must check whether popling has a flash player embedded.
M
I like the way you’re thinking M!
This is a really good idea. I know a number of PC potatoes who could do with some additional education. Rgds Vince