Best suggestion for distribution of cards to a class?

[Mark]

I have about 60 students who need to learn vocabulary.

I don't want them to enter their own cards, I want to supply the cards so that I can control the quality of the cards.

Each week, there are about 15 new vocabulary.

What is the best suggestion for distributing the weekly cards?

I saw in the program there is something about a server.  I might be able to do that, if that is the best way?
I could also export the cards, I suppose.

I am just looking for suggestions from anyone who has done this, or has a good idea of approaching this situation.

Thanks

[George Wade]

Perfectly seriously: "Learning vocabulary" is not often the method that works best. Doing something like grouping the words in a manner that makes sense to students themselves will often have better results. Then Mnemosyne takes over for medium —> long term memory.

So a few students get together and get all the sports words; then music related; business related... Making the associations is the learning process.

A few more students start drawing pictures, or more likely cartoons using some of the words. Relating the cartoons to the words is the learning. I would MindMap because I like to be different. MindMap the cartoons.

Then it can all go into the Mnemosyne card data base at least 30 words a week will be easy this way.

We got an excellent way of learning Chinese demonstrated yesterday: Grouping bi-syllabic words into 16 or 25 on a grid of equal tones.

Tones:– 1 + 1; 1 + 2; 1 + 3; 1 + 4 (1 + 5)
2 + 1; 2 + 2; 2 + 3; 2 + 4
3 + 1; 3 + 2; 3 + 3; 3 + 4
4 + 1; 4 + 2; 4 + 3; 4 + 4
(5 + 1; where 5 = neutral tone)

We learned the meanings too, but the actual task was to build up blocks of words starting with one we could already pronounce and adding new ones to practice the tone.

Having done that (And added pictures, audio perhaps) they can go into Mnemosyne decks organised on any principle desired.


This year, however, you may well wish to do it your own way. Don't rush these new ideas... *=*)


George

[Polly]

It's best to export them.

I'm not sure whether Mnemosyne doesn't import cards that are already there, but with the duplicate detection now it should be easier to export. The server thing is when you want to keep the learning data, which I don't think you want.

You could just tag each set of new cards with "Week 5" or something, and export those.

[Peter Bienstman]

Quoting Polly <anty...@gmail.com>:

> It's best to export them.
>
> I'm not sure whether Mnemosyne doesn't import cards that are already there,

It won't create duplicates when importing the same '*.cards' file
twice, just update the card content. This way you can fix e.g. typo's
in an updated file later.

Peter