I would suggest Mr Frickman to try the new version of VTrain (Vocabulary Trainer), available from http://www.vtrain.net

VTrain 5.0 comes with so many new features that I will not list them here. Simply consider the large number of universities that have officially registered the software.

One looked a lot like a stripped-down version of EverNote, and the other looked a lot like this (so naturally I’m thrilled that both exist). EverNote completely exceeded what I had imagined, and I have great expectations for this as well.

I think there is great potential for this software to be even better:

ONE is for educators to create gigantic open-source databases of trees/nodes/lessons/review questions such that it is possible to get an entire education through the computer for free. Somebody would probably have to put up a lot of money to get these started, but once it got rolling it would be unstoppable. Free education for everyone on the planet!

I can certainly imagine that computer programmers involved in open source coding projects would be willing to put in the time to contribute to open-source learning projects.

TWO is to include the ability to automatically generate review questions for a given lesson. I think this would make the most sense for learning math (because computers can easily generate all sorts of math problems for the students to solve) and foreign languages (because the rules of a language can be programmed in). I think the value of review questions would decrease slightly every time the exact same question was asked (with the exact same answer), whereas if slightly different math problems involving the same principles repeatedly appeared, the value would be higher.

I think eventually the questions would be generated from a list of “important facts” associated with that lesson rather than each being typed out by hand. This would allow the same question to be asked in different wording (with different wrong answers next to it, if it’s presented in multiple choice format). Having this information in a standard database form would also benefit AI researchers, who would have a standard means of “teaching” their machines.

THREE is for multiple people to be able to face off against each other in trivia games. I think that would be more fun than reviewing alone. The software keeps track of how well the students know certain subjects, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to get it to connect to other computers to generate a list of review questions appropriate for all participants.

Sorry to leave such a long comment, but I felt like I had a lot to say. You can probably tell I’ve thought about this extensively :-)

Gotta watch ebay for the best deals… Especially now that IBM has put out their tablet, I think alot of people will be upgrading.

Gotta love the ZOD!!! or atleast the concept
-except that my backlight died 2 weeks after they shutdown – still within warranty, but no fixxie for me =(
now i have to figure out how to listen to my TabletPC show & IT Conversations some other way.

I am also a longtime reader of your blog and listen to your podcasts as they hit the hd. Great job and keep up the awesome work.

Radio? Whats that,the static in the car?

I am also a student, now enrolled @ University of Pheonix Online (BS IT/Visual Communications), and am getting my first tablet soon (today hopefully!). So I have been doing some research on what are the best apps for tablets, and was browsing the forums on Agilix’s GoBinder site, and first encounterd RecallPlus in Frick’s(?) post there. So off I went to investigate further, and it looks like it is really a great app. It even includes a mind-mapping/concept feature, as well as flashcards.

Can’t wait to get my tablet and start filling up the hd with ink notes and digitally annoted e_books.

::eagerly awaiting the next podcast::
_Kris_

I really do agree that Tablets are made for students. Just right now the price is too high. I don’t see it coming down in the near future.