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Easily create flashcards from PowerPoint or Markdown files with OpenCards

Byryan April 20, 2018April 17, 2018

OpenCards is a free award-winning flashcard learning software. The basic idea of OpenCards is to use PowerPoint presentations (*.ppt) or Markdown (*.md) files as flashcard sets. Thereby, slide-titles are represented as questions and the slide contents as their answers. Based on state-of-the-art memorization and scheduling algorithms OpenCards will help you to learn any set of flashcards.

Source: OpenCards

OpenCards can create flash cards from either a PowerPoint file, Markdown file, or from a CSV file. It is open source software, running under macOS, Windows, or Linux. For Chromebook users you will want to look at Flashcard Stash.

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Live polls and Q&As with Xprim

Byryan July 23, 2019July 16, 2019

Source: xprim.valuraise.com/ I came across Xprim in my internet travels, and it took a little bit to figure out what exactly the site does. It offers polling of participants in a lecture or presentation setting, along with the ability to collect questions. The site is currently free, and could be used in place of Poll…

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Google kills off Picasa for Google Photos

Byryan February 13, 2016February 13, 2016

Picasa is Google’s desktop app to manage photos, and on March 15th, will be discontinuing the application and support. It’s kinda of sad, because it was a good desktop competitor for users not on OS X and didn’t have access to the Photos app. Users of Picasa will find their photos already stored in Google…

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Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif

Byryan August 31, 2018August 31, 2018

Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif. After you upload an animated gif or load an animated gif by URL, Gifntext gets started with showing you the tools you can use and help on how to do certain tasks. Gifntext doesn’t look like much, but it is a pretty powerful tool for adding to animated gifs. And…

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Create a large poster on any printer

Byryan August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

Source: Wall art generator – Rasterbator Rasterbator is a website that will take an image and blow it up to poster size on any printer or copier. The site will create a multi-page PDF, blowing up the original image as a kind of mosaic it. The multiple pages can then be printed out. But, it…

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Write interactive fiction with Inklewriter

Byryan February 22, 2016February 22, 2016

Inklewriter is an online service that allows the user to write interactive fiction. What is interactive fiction? In its simplest form you can think of interactive fiction as the old choose your own adventure books. Inklewriter lets you or your students create their own interactive fiction online. This could be used with students as they author…

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Mash up emojis with Emoji kitchen

Byryan July 6, 2021June 29, 2021

— Read on emoji.kitchen Mash up two emojis to create your own emoji with emoji.kitchen. There is a random button to randomly pick two emojis, or you can click on each emoji to select one. Once your mashup is complete, you can download the graphic or share it directly from the website.

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