Technology+Tools


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[|Penzu] An online tool for creating a personal journal. Students can add text as well as images. [|Wordle] Create word clouds with vocabulary words. [|AudioBoo] An audio-blogging site, you can send in updates through the web, phone or its own iPhone app. Perfect for blogging on the move, like on a school-trip, or sharing your class’s opinion about a topic. [|Wallwisher] A virtual sticky notice board. [|Flckr Creative Commons] Find photos representing vocabulary words [|OdoSketch]Use to have students sketch pictures of vocabulary words [|Imagination Cubed] Drawing tool [|Animoto]Make a vocabulary video [|Random Name and Word Picker] Use to randomly pick words or names. [|WorditOut] Another tool to create word clouds [|Glogster] Create vocabulary posters [|Easy Poster Printer] Create vocabulary posters WikiSpaces Create your own wiki resource page. [|Bubbl.us] Brainstorm online [|VocabGrabber] VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save. Select any word on the list and you'll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map and definitions for that word, along with examples of the word in your text. Click on the word map or the highlighted word in the example to see the Visual Thesaurus in action.

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[|Confusing Words] **Confusing Words** is a collection of **3210** words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused. ======

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[|WordSift] WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. ======