ANKIWEB, CREATE & SHARE DECKS WITH DAVID STONE

Today, The Grandma has spent a wonderful day in the company of one of her closest friends, David Stone, who is creating a project to study English using Anki.

Anki is a free and open-source flashcard program using spaced repetition, a technique from cognitive science, for fast and long-lasting memorization.

Anki (暗記) is the Japanese word for memorization.

The SM-2 algorithm, created for SuperMemo in the late 1980s, forms the basis of the spaced repetition methods employed in the program. Anki's implementation of the algorithm has been modified to allow priorities on cards and to show flashcards in order of their urgency.

The cards are presented using HTML and may include text, images, sounds, videos, and LaTeX equations. The decks of cards, along with the user's statistics, are stored in the open SQLite format.

Cards are generated from information stored as notes. Notes are analogous to database entries and can have an arbitrary number of fields. For example, with respect to learning a language, a note may have the following fields and example entries:

-Field 1: Expression in target language – gâteau
-Field 2: Pronunciation – [sound file with the word gâteau pronounced]
-Field 3: Meaning of expression in familiar language – cake

This example illustrates what some programs call a three-sided flashcard, but Anki's model is more general and allows any number of fields to be combined in various cards.

The user can design cards that test the information contained in each note. One card may have a question (expression) and an answer (pronunciation, meaning).

By keeping the separate cards linked to the same fact, spelling mistakes can be adjusted against all cards at the same time, and Anki can ensure that related cards are not shown in too short a spacing.

A special note type allows generation of cloze deletion cards, in Anki 1.2.x, those were ordinary cards with cloze markup added using a tool in the fact editor.

While Anki's user manual encourages the creation of one's own decks for most material, there is still a large and active database of shared decks that users can download and use.

Available decks range from foreign-language decks (often constructed with frequency tables) to geography, physics, biology, chemistry and more. Various medical science decks, often made by multiple users in collaboration, are also available.

More information: Anki Web

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves.
I wasn't able to memorize the words.
I had complete stage fright.

Constance Marie