Awesome Stories
www.awesomestories.com
Awesome Stories' Visual Vocabulary Builder is intended to help people of all ages to more efficiently and memorably learn new words. Each profiled word is located in the relevant story. It is accompanied by a picture which highlights its meaning.
Although these visual learning aids are currently available for everyone, they will soon be available only for site members. Each Visual Vocabulary Builder contains ten new words and appears as a PDF link on the first page of the story (in addition to this list). It is the plan to develop Visual Vocabularies for every story and video clip at Awesome Stories.
Use Awesome Stories Visual Vocabulary Builders in the classroom to allow students to opportunity to explore definitions and visual representations of essential vocabulary. If the text a student is reading is not found on the Awesome Stories site, students can create Visual Vocabulary Builders using PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Presentations.
Awesome Stories' Visual Vocabulary Builder is intended to help people of all ages to more efficiently and memorably learn new words. Each profiled word is located in the relevant story. It is accompanied by a picture which highlights its meaning.
Although these visual learning aids are currently available for everyone, they will soon be available only for site members. Each Visual Vocabulary Builder contains ten new words and appears as a PDF link on the first page of the story (in addition to this list). It is the plan to develop Visual Vocabularies for every story and video clip at Awesome Stories.
Use Awesome Stories Visual Vocabulary Builders in the classroom to allow students to opportunity to explore definitions and visual representations of essential vocabulary. If the text a student is reading is not found on the Awesome Stories site, students can create Visual Vocabulary Builders using PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Presentations.
Flashcard Stash
www.flashcardstash.com
Flashcard Stash is a dictionary based website for helping students learn vocabulary and more.
Teachers can sign up for a free account to create and store word lists to support written text. With the click of a button, users can access definitions, example sentences from context, and images to support the word. Once created, teachers will have a set of digital flash cards to use to help students practice the words and concepts through some games and quizzes. Students can access the vocabulary activities through a link, without logging in. The tool can also be used to help students build their own knowledge about vocabulary terms and concepts if asked to create their own word cards. This, of course, takes the learning to a whole new level. Additionally, students are able to view quotations from books and Internet articles. This not only places the term in contest, but also enables students to interact with current events.
Flashcard Stash is a dictionary based website for helping students learn vocabulary and more.
Teachers can sign up for a free account to create and store word lists to support written text. With the click of a button, users can access definitions, example sentences from context, and images to support the word. Once created, teachers will have a set of digital flash cards to use to help students practice the words and concepts through some games and quizzes. Students can access the vocabulary activities through a link, without logging in. The tool can also be used to help students build their own knowledge about vocabulary terms and concepts if asked to create their own word cards. This, of course, takes the learning to a whole new level. Additionally, students are able to view quotations from books and Internet articles. This not only places the term in contest, but also enables students to interact with current events.
Lingro
www.lingro.com
Lingro is an amazing online tool that turns any website or digital text file into an interactive dictionary where users can click on a word to view it's definition and hear it's pronunciation. Support by 12 languages, Lingro is also a very useful tool for translating text.
Lingro is easy to use. Just copy and paste any web address into Lingro's web browser and click on a word, or use the file viewer to upload a document and translate it in the same way. One of the most impressive features of Lingro is that it stores and remembers all the words you click on and allows you to easily create and store words lists. Then, with the click of a button, Lingro turns your word lists into an online flash card game. This tool does not require a login to use the most basic features so it can be a handy tool for students without an email address, but teachers should create a free account to take advantage of additional features, such as storage, history and word lists.
Use Lingro in your classroom to enable students to easily locate the definition of each and every unfamiliar word in a web based text.
Lingro is an amazing online tool that turns any website or digital text file into an interactive dictionary where users can click on a word to view it's definition and hear it's pronunciation. Support by 12 languages, Lingro is also a very useful tool for translating text.
Lingro is easy to use. Just copy and paste any web address into Lingro's web browser and click on a word, or use the file viewer to upload a document and translate it in the same way. One of the most impressive features of Lingro is that it stores and remembers all the words you click on and allows you to easily create and store words lists. Then, with the click of a button, Lingro turns your word lists into an online flash card game. This tool does not require a login to use the most basic features so it can be a handy tool for students without an email address, but teachers should create a free account to take advantage of additional features, such as storage, history and word lists.
Use Lingro in your classroom to enable students to easily locate the definition of each and every unfamiliar word in a web based text.
Google Presentation
www.google.com
Google Presentation is an attractive tool for a lesson in which students work collaboratively to construct knowledge about vocabulary by creating vocabulary cards.
Use Google Presentation in the classroom to explore essential vocabulary.
Each student within the group has a job to do.
Google Presentation is an attractive tool for a lesson in which students work collaboratively to construct knowledge about vocabulary by creating vocabulary cards.
Use Google Presentation in the classroom to explore essential vocabulary.
Each student within the group has a job to do.
- Video: Find and insert a video to illustrate the term using the handy feature that lets users preview and insert YouTube videos without leaving the presentation.
- Images: Find a copyright-friendly image or use the drawing tools available to draw directly on the slide to create a visual representation of the term.
- Definitions: Choose from a variety of dictionary tools to find a definition, then work with the others in your group to write a definition in your own words.
Shahi
www.blachan.com/shahi/
Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images, and more!
Use Shahi in the classroom to allow students to opportunity to explore definitions and visual representations of essential vocabulary.
Shahi is a visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images, and more!
Use Shahi in the classroom to allow students to opportunity to explore definitions and visual representations of essential vocabulary.
Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Use Tagxedo in the classroom to enable students to make predictions about what they will be learning. Students can write predictions and create word clouds either individually or in collaboration with peers. Students can also explore themes and vocabulary in text, speeches and web pages.
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Use Tagxedo in the classroom to enable students to make predictions about what they will be learning. Students can write predictions and create word clouds either individually or in collaboration with peers. Students can also explore themes and vocabulary in text, speeches and web pages.
ThingLink
www.thinglink.com
ThingLink technology changes how people engage with photos by transforming them from a static image, into a navigational surface for exploring rich, relevant content that enhances the viewer’s knowledge and experience. Brands, publishers and bloggers utilize ThingLink in their images to share links, drive traffic, and set up image-based advertising campaigns.
Thinglink is an image engagement tool that makes it easy to add clickable tags to any image on the web and share the tagged images on social networks. Any publisher or brand can distribute tagged images to bloggers and other publishers and still receive traffic back to the original image source.
Use ThingLInk in the classroom to enable students to curate content inside an image to demonstrate understanding of a topic, knowledge of vocabulary or to create authentic, valuable, and rich interactive stories around historical events using media (video, sound, photos, written words, etc.) found online.
Teachers can use ThingLink to create multimedia launchers to introduce students to vocabulary words and demonstrate meaning. Students can design their own interactive images to construct deep knowledge about the words as they are engaged in the process of building their own multimedia definitions.
ThingLink technology changes how people engage with photos by transforming them from a static image, into a navigational surface for exploring rich, relevant content that enhances the viewer’s knowledge and experience. Brands, publishers and bloggers utilize ThingLink in their images to share links, drive traffic, and set up image-based advertising campaigns.
Thinglink is an image engagement tool that makes it easy to add clickable tags to any image on the web and share the tagged images on social networks. Any publisher or brand can distribute tagged images to bloggers and other publishers and still receive traffic back to the original image source.
Use ThingLInk in the classroom to enable students to curate content inside an image to demonstrate understanding of a topic, knowledge of vocabulary or to create authentic, valuable, and rich interactive stories around historical events using media (video, sound, photos, written words, etc.) found online.
Teachers can use ThingLink to create multimedia launchers to introduce students to vocabulary words and demonstrate meaning. Students can design their own interactive images to construct deep knowledge about the words as they are engaged in the process of building their own multimedia definitions.
Visuwords
www.visuwords.com/
Visuwords is a free online dictionary that connects words visually, according to their semantic relationships. You enter the word and Visuwords displays a graph which connects that word to various other words based on different relationships between them. No setup or account is required.
Use Visuwords in your classroom enable students to see the relationship of new words to words that the students already know. Visuwords also provides alternate forms of the word. Hovering over the word provides a definition and examples of how the word can be used in context.
Visuwords is a free online dictionary that connects words visually, according to their semantic relationships. You enter the word and Visuwords displays a graph which connects that word to various other words based on different relationships between them. No setup or account is required.
Use Visuwords in your classroom enable students to see the relationship of new words to words that the students already know. Visuwords also provides alternate forms of the word. Hovering over the word provides a definition and examples of how the word can be used in context.
Wall Wisher
www.wallwisher.com
Wallwisher is an online collaboration tool that allows multiple users to post ideas, resources, and thoughts on a particular topic. Simply put, it is a virtual bulletin board - a free and user friendly digital tool that allows users to create a digital wall of multimedia sticky notes which can include text, images, links and videos.
A similar option is Lino it.
Use Wallwisher in the classroom for brainstorming, inspiring student writing, collecting student's thoughts, short collaborative plans, poems, vocabulary activities, watching and sharing videos, note-taking, discussion starters and much more!
Teachers can create a vocabulary word wall and embed it into a webpage, blog or wiki for quick and easy access 24/7. Students can contribute to a vocabulary word wall without logging in, which makes it a great tool for use in a classroom with students under 13. Walls are collaborative and they provide one place for easy access to those important vocabulary words. Just provide students with the words and some time to construct knowledge about them as they post a sticky note and build their own definitions.
Wallwisher is an online collaboration tool that allows multiple users to post ideas, resources, and thoughts on a particular topic. Simply put, it is a virtual bulletin board - a free and user friendly digital tool that allows users to create a digital wall of multimedia sticky notes which can include text, images, links and videos.
A similar option is Lino it.
Use Wallwisher in the classroom for brainstorming, inspiring student writing, collecting student's thoughts, short collaborative plans, poems, vocabulary activities, watching and sharing videos, note-taking, discussion starters and much more!
Teachers can create a vocabulary word wall and embed it into a webpage, blog or wiki for quick and easy access 24/7. Students can contribute to a vocabulary word wall without logging in, which makes it a great tool for use in a classroom with students under 13. Walls are collaborative and they provide one place for easy access to those important vocabulary words. Just provide students with the words and some time to construct knowledge about them as they post a sticky note and build their own definitions.
Wordle
Charlotte Perkins Gillman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
www.wordle.net
Wordle is a free application that creates a word cloud from a selection of text that you provide. A “word cloud” is a graphic representation of the most frequently used words in a passage, document, or website.
Use Wordle in the classroom to enable students to make predictions about what they will be learning. Students can write predictions and create word clouds either individually or in collaboration with peers. Students can also explore themes and vocabulary in text, speeches and web pages.
Wordle is a free application that creates a word cloud from a selection of text that you provide. A “word cloud” is a graphic representation of the most frequently used words in a passage, document, or website.
Use Wordle in the classroom to enable students to make predictions about what they will be learning. Students can write predictions and create word clouds either individually or in collaboration with peers. Students can also explore themes and vocabulary in text, speeches and web pages.