About Me
My name is Laura Dean and I am the owner and manager of Moone Leaf LLC, a software and web-services company. I am a work-at-home mom, and I have done various freelance software, web development, and video editing projects since the birth of my first daughter in 2003.About Moone Leaf Flashcards
These flashcards are provided free of charge for anyone wanting to expand their vocabulary and object recognition. Although the interface is carefully designed to be fun for even babies, older children and adults can also benefit from these flashcards, especially for learning geography or ESL. Toddlers especially like to play the flashcards game and enjoy learning names for both new and familiar objects.The Theory
This flashcard system is based on three Glenn Doman books: How To Teach Your Baby to Read
,
How To Teach Your Baby Math,
and How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge.According to Doman, even very tiny babies can and want to learn about everything. Also, they are fascinated by computers. They love it when they hit a button and the machine responds. This flashcard system makes early learning a game. It is designed to delight and fascinate the small child while allowing them to explore virtually any topic of their interest. And adults can learn something, too!
The Inspiration
When I first read about making flashcards for babies to teach encyclopedic knowledge, my daughters were 3 and 1. I thought they might enjoy some flashcards, so, after considering the topic, I put together a set on dinosaurs from images I found online. To put together a set of 15 flashcards took me about 4 hours. "This is crazy!" I thought. "If I'm going to put this much work into making flashcards, I'm going to put them online where I can share them with my friends."And so I did.
Licensing
I hereby release all original images and sound samples to the public domain, to be used by anyone for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or non-commercial.However, many of the images on this site are either taken directly from Wikimedia or Flickr or are derivative works. Many of these works are released under the Creative Commons Attribution license, meaning that if you want to use the work you must give credit to the author and provide it under the same license. Some of the images may be under copyright, with explicit permission granted for their use on this site. If you see an attribution link below a flashcard, please follow the link to get license terms for these images.
Future Plans
I will continue creating flashcards and adding to this knowledge repository. This site is created to be a multi-lingual repository, so I plan to recruit volunteers or hire freelancers to record in other languages.At some point I will sell subscriptions, but never for access to the content. The subscriptions will be for accessing configuration, testing, and printing features. Configuration options will include rearranging existing flashcards into subsets, controlling which topics appear on your child's index, turning the sound and text on and off, and possibly uploading your own flashcards. Testing and measurement will include tracking how often you have viewed each card and cardset and how many you are able to identify in multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank tests.
Glen Doman's method for teaching encyclopedic knowledge involves creating "Programs of Knowledge" which are 10 facts associated with each flashcard. I plan to create these Programs of Knowledge and also testing for these. When there are enough flashcards and Programs of Knowledge, I plan to create a "Flashcard Pursuit" game where players can test their knowledge in multiplayer competition.
I believe that nothing like this has ever been available before because of the prohibitive expense of acquiring image samples. This site wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects as well as photo sharing sites like Flickr. Therefore, I pledge to give 10% of site revenues to support open-information projects including Wikipedia, Project Gutenburg, and the Creative Commons.