u/GriffiiGames

My personal battle against physical flashcards
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My personal battle against physical flashcards

Hey y'all, I posted a video a few weeks back about the 'ALT experience' and my project to replace all physical flashcards in my classrooms. The main feedback was to show more of what the actual app does and how it can be used. So here we are again!

At the time of the last video, the app didn't work properly so I had nothing to share. Even this video was made over a week ago and the app has grown a lot over the Obon holiday. It is now possible to make and share custom content in the app.

It's still free, but with limited amount of cards each account can make (to avoid getting slapped with a million dollar data base fee because one person uploaded 3 billion skibidi toilet pictures or something).

It's still in development and subject to major changes as I do more user testing. Speaking of, if anyone is interested in testing it out and telling me what's confusing or seems busted or could be made more intuitive send me a message! It would be appreciated.

Anyway, hope the holidays were nice for everyone and if you're heading into a new school term, good luck!

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u/GriffiiGames — 3 days ago

EiTake Cards

Hey guys! Hope summer break is going well. I'm back again. You may recognize me from posts about EiTake, the English games website. Thanks to everyone who checked it out by the way!

I'm here with a new project, one that fills some gaps EiTake wasn't able to handle. EiTake Cards (eitakecards.com). It's an improved version of the flashcard system from EiTake, but I plan to make it so users can create and share their own flashcards! Sort of like Anki or quizlet, but designed for language teachers and classroom use. There were so many requests to add new textbooks to EiTake I wasn't able to keep up.

Now, it's not live yet. I'm just gauging interest and soliciting ideas from real teachers (Not just English teachers, the system is meant to work with any language combination). You can check out a prototype of the app idea online right now, and if you are interested in sharing some thoughts, become a founding teacher and help me build the app (with your ideas, not money (not yet anyway)).

I also made a super fantastic, Hollywood quality, million dollar budget promo video trying to highlight the issues of language teaching I want to help solve. Might have to give up this whole project and become a director/actor honestly.

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u/GriffiiGames — 27 days ago
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This website has helped make so many English classes fun for my elementary students!

Like the title says, this site has some great free resources for English teachers in Japan.

It has decks of vocab flashcards that you can use instead of physical cards (my schools flashcards are outdated with half are missing anyway), and simple review games for practicing the vocab. It even has pre-made lists of vocab that match the textbooks my school uses!

It's got other simple stuff that can be useful, like the hot potato game. It just plays music for a random amount of time, great for hot potato warm up games. And the random points game is super nice for doing team quizzes. The kids can pick cards to receive random points for their team, and the site tracks all points so you don't have to frantically do math and write on the blackboard. There's even a slot machine for teams to gamble their points if you want to increase the stakes.

It's free and you don't need an account, but if you make one you can edit the color scheme of the site and make custom decks of flashcards.

Stuff keeps getting added too! They just added a mock clothing store website, and the new typing tower defence game has been getting updates.

I don't know who else uses their laptop for most classes, but if you do this EiTake site might be fun for the students! And save you a lot of material prep time.

Are there any online tools you guys use a lot? I also use Altopedia for lesson plans a lot too!

u/GriffiiGames — 4 months ago