How to Make Your Own Flash Cards Online for Free
With every advance in technology, strategies in learning seem to shift. However, one "old-fashioned" method of testing retention and encouraging memorization still works. Flash cards are time-tested and simple. But, even something as simple as a flash card can be helped along by technology. There are multiple websites to assist you in creating and printing flash cards for nearly any subject.
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Examine each of the sites listed below in the References section. Each website functions slightly differently and provides different features. Choose the website that best fits your needs. KitzKitz is a fairly utilitarian site. You input your questions and answers, and the website provides an image suitable for printing. Flashcard Exchange promotes more in the way of sharing, offering multiple already-created packs in addition to allowing you to create you own. Educational Press is somewhere between the two, with a wide array of pre-designed flashcard packs available and an easy-to-use creation page.
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Choose your website and create an account, if necessary. Flashcard Exchange requires the creation of an account before you can create flash cards, and charges a one-time $19.95 fee to print them. KitzKitz allows you to immediately start entering data. Educational Press requires you to click on the button labeled "List Wizard" to make your own questions and answers, but has many different types of flash cards available for you to print out.
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Create any flash cards you need using the website's tools. Flashcard Exchange's creation process starts with a title page where you can name each different set of flash cards, then you move onto the creation page where questions and answers are typed in blanks next to one another. On the Kitz Kitz website, the blanks for questions and answers are at the top of the page. Fill out up to eight cards and then click "PDF" to continue. The Educational Press "List Wizard" has a large blank into which you can type questions and answers, separated by a specific character - "=" by default. Click "Go back to Ed Press Home" when you are done.
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Print the flash cards. Flashcard Exchange requires a membership fee to print. Kitz Kitz allows you to either view or download a 2-page PDF containing your flash cards. The Education Press tool also provides PDF files, but allows you to choose multiple ways of printing the cards. Click "Make double-sided sheets" if your printer can print on both sides of a piece of paper. If it cannot, create one PDF with your questions, then another with your answers and follow your printer's directions for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper.
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Cut out your flash cards. Use your scissors to separate each card carefully. If you are unable to print on both sides of a sheet of paper, you can glue the question cards to the answer cards.
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