Mike Penfold
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The Flash Card Deluxe app for the iPod touch and iPhone allows users to create virtual flash cards, including photos and sound. The program duplicates the advantages of paper flash cards, including the ability to exclude overlearned cards, while focusing on more difficult material.
IMO this is a perfect tool for learning birds in preparation for an international trip.
The cards could focus on just difficult groups, such as hummingbirds in Ecuador; or abundant/common birds; or endemics; and so on.
Modern field guides, digital photography, bird song CDs, and this app make it just a matter of doing the work.
There is a serious issue with copyright.
Assuming copyright issues could be overcome, I'd be interested in teaming up to produce a deck of virtual flash cards for Hawaii and the tropical Pacific in the areas covered by Pratt, van Perlo, Dutson, Watling, and Doughty.
I'd also be interested in purchasing a commercial product using this or similar technology, but there doesn't seem to be anything available, nor does there appear to be a thread on the topic.
Mike
IMO this is a perfect tool for learning birds in preparation for an international trip.
The cards could focus on just difficult groups, such as hummingbirds in Ecuador; or abundant/common birds; or endemics; and so on.
Modern field guides, digital photography, bird song CDs, and this app make it just a matter of doing the work.
There is a serious issue with copyright.
Assuming copyright issues could be overcome, I'd be interested in teaming up to produce a deck of virtual flash cards for Hawaii and the tropical Pacific in the areas covered by Pratt, van Perlo, Dutson, Watling, and Doughty.
I'd also be interested in purchasing a commercial product using this or similar technology, but there doesn't seem to be anything available, nor does there appear to be a thread on the topic.
Mike
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