Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Wordnik


Wordnik http://www.wordnik.com/



This is an interesting website. It serves as a dictionary, but I really like the real time aspect of tweets that use the word, as well as images. I also like the statistical use summary.

Classroom ideas. Use this tool to present vocabulary words, both in English and other languages.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

dotSUB

dotSUB http://dotsub.com/ This site offers videos subtitled into different languages. Members can do the transcribing.


Classroom idea.
Have a class take a favorite video and translate it and load it on dotSUB
Use dotSUB original language videos with the original language subtitles as a teaching tool.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Rich Chart Live

Rich Chart Live http://www.richchartlive.com


I like this chart maker. It has a nice variety of displays.

Classroom idea:
  1. Extend an excel lesson by displaying data dynamically.
  2. Add interest to your own blog or moodle unit introduction.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Plagium

Plagium http://www.plagium.com/


Detect plagiarism on the fly. Turnitin costs
our school about 1000 . Could this be a cheaper, less intrusive way to go?