For computer-assisted-instruction software that keeps track of the student's
progress so that each time it can present the appropriate material to each
particular student depending on his/her progress, where each student uses
the computer by him/herself, a separate account is needed for each student.
Where a tutor sits with a student, a separate account is needed for each
tutor and a separate sub-account is needed for each tutored student.
In either case, a login form
(full-screen
desktop/laptop or
WAP
= Wireless Access Protocol for cellphones)
must be filled out to get access to the programs. It's probably best for
me to give you an in-person demo, so that I can set up your account and
configure it for the programs I want you to see and help you use them.
However if you log in as guest1 with password free you can play with all
the by-yourself flashcard decks, subject to the possibility that somebody
else might log in while you're logged in and thereby trash your
session, but still just to get an idea how the flashcard drill optimizer
works it's marginally sufficient. As a preview of the three different
kinds of flashards, I have these exhibits:
- Flashcard drill with tutor: Reading common words (English) out loud.
(sample of a single flashcard in this program)
- Flashcard drill by yourself: Filling in missing common words (English)
in phrases, usually song lyrics or cliches.
(sample of a single flashcard in this program)
Update 2007.Mar: I now also have decks for pre-school reading-readiness
exercise, namely single missing letters from the alphabet and the Barney
Dinosaur song. For ESL students, I also have single missing letters in
the "quick brown fox" typing exercise, and for foreign nationals wishing
to obtain a green card I have single missing letters in
the lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner (warning: original
version of lyrics before spelling and punctuation of American English was
standardized).
- Flashcard drill by yourself: Filling in missing common
words (Spanish) in phrases, showing English translation.
(sample of a single flashcard in this program)
Update 2007.Mar: I now also have a deck for English-to-Mandarin, but
at present it's only the traditional single-word translation,
not missing words in context as with all the other self-study
flashcard decks.
Also available via my Web login form, but only for priviledged accounts:
- Simple e-mail program (for my own use only, but I can demonstrate it to you).
- View some confidential files.
New kind of economic system, under development 2008-2011, essentially
a barter-bank, including
missing-word tests to protect against 'bots, creating your own account,
accounting of labor-time
funds which you can earn then later spend any way you want, investing
some of your funds in weighted vote for answers to survey questions,
including meta-quetion of what question would you like to survey,
with ability to withdraw some funds to re-invest in a different
answer or spend on other services,
and transfer of control to satellite services on other computers:
NewEco
Select excerpts of bus and light-rail schedules to fit on one-inch
screen of standard cell-phone:
VTAorg
Demos for cellphone implemented in 2010 late-Summer but not available
for free use because they use up too much of my disk space: