Braineos

Braineos is a website that was recommend by a fellow student (thanks Rachel!)and was one that I wrote down as needing to check-out. It is a website where you can make your own flash cards.

It was an interesting website and some of the things I liked about it were you could easily make your own flashcards or use some of the ones that had been saved to the site. My daughter had just finished learning the European countries and their capitals and those flashcards were already on line...should have looked at this site last week :) Making my own flashcards were quick and easy. I liked the fact that it gave you several different options for playing with them ie: flip, reverse flip, multi-guess and a video game.

I did see two down sides. The first being that I never found a way to print the flashcards. I don't know that this is critical but I should would be nice to use them when you aren't near a computer. The second is that you were limited in the number of characters you could type. For many flashcards it wouldn't be a problem. I tried making my daughter some flashcards for her Awana verses and did not have enough room to type the entire verse.

I do think this is a nice little program for simple memorization of math, capitals or definitions. The student could make their own flashcards to help with the memorization and then use them to play the games.