All Blog Posts Tagged 'dictionary' (4)

Merriam Webster for ESL learners

Confused by custom-made and tailor-made? The past perfect and simple past tenses? This site at Merriam Webster can help to answer all of your students' English grammar-related questions.

Added by Timothy L. Wahl on September 25, 2009 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Can Wordnik be Used as a Literacy Tool?

The common problem with getting students to turn to dictionaries or similar tools to verify spelling, pronunciation, or simply learn the meaning of a word, is the basic limitations of the experience. When a generation that has grown up participating in and / or leading the creation of narrative online (via their social networks and blogs) is faced with a non-to-low interactive and non-social experience, we can easily predict the outcome: boredom and disinterest, and they will only do it if… Continue

Added by Meg H on June 25, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The first kids open dictionary

I am very excited to (finally) be able to show the new project we've been working on -- the first kids open dictionary. The first phase of this is the collaborative, wiki-based dictionary builder. If you have a second, check out the site and make a quick addition to a definition (or edit one someone else has done).

This project grew out of the need we have seen in classrooms and other informal learning environments for a dictionary… Continue

Added by Karen Fasimpaur on July 7, 2008 at 11:07am — No Comments

VisuWords is a free online graphical dictionary that is an excellent resource for language development and language support. You can type any word into the searchbox or click on Random to view random…

VisuWords is a free online graphical dictionary that is an excellent resource for language development and language support. You can type any word into the searchbox or click on Random to view random words defined. The site then searches for related words and then produces a user-friendly diagram. Each node in the diagram is clickable to view a definition of that word or double click on the node to expand the search for that particular term. In the example… Continue

Added by Kylie Stewart on June 13, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments