Easy Notecards is a fine site where students and teachers can find, create, study, print and share interactive flashcards. After completing the free registration, users are given a virtual locker to save their own notecard sets along with favorite sets, favorite books and favorite members. Users can search a textbook using the ISBN number to find pre-posted sets or tag their own cards to that title. In creating sets, students will need to enter the information on their own, even if the book is found in the Easy Notecard database. Students can easily upload photos and/or change font and color to enhance their flashcards and make the information more memorable. As students study and progress, they can mark specific cards for further study. In addition to self-assessing with the virtual flashcards, the flashcards can be used to create a multiple choice quiz, matching game, or multi or single player Bingo game. The matching game and Bingo games are time-sensitive, and the quality of the computer-generated multiple choice quizzes is highly dependent on the content of the notecards and might not be particularly helpful. While the site offers the nice feature of enabling a student to find other users' notecards by searching the book title, there is no validation of the accuracy of user-created cards. Virtual notecard sites like Easy Notecards can be a useful study tool for some students, but students who have difficulty remembering information will be better off with real notecards or other multi-modal memorization strategies.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Anxiety
• Multi-player activity with a clear 'winner' and 'loser'
• Student cannot take as much time as needed to read text
• Gives negative feedback (red X's, buzzer)
• Timer cannot be hidden
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Attention
• Shows advertisements
• Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Requires recall of text information without audio or visual reinforcement
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Organization
• Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Processing Speed
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Student cannot take as much time as needed to read text
• Timer cannot be hidden
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Requires recall of text information without audio or visual reinforcement
• Includes long written questions or text that students must be able to read on their own
• Spatial Perception
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Verbal Memory
• Requires recall of text information without audio or visual reinforcement
• Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options
• Visual Discrimination
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers
• Shows advertisements
• Student cannot take as much time as needed to read text
• Words used during activity can be too small or difficult to read
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Requires recall of text information without audio or visual reinforcement
• Visual Memory
• Visual Motor Speed
• Timer cannot be hidden
• Turn or quiz abruptly ends when timer runs out
• Vocabulary
• Assumes specific knowledge or vocabulary without "look-up" options