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  • jessicalmno
    Jessica on 2007-02-02
    So cool.  You get to move seemlessly through word connections, exploring relationships between and among words.
  • sivaramakrishnan
    sivaramakrishnan on 2007-05-27
    Excellent way to learn new words, moving from one word to another
  • chanio
    Alberto Adrián Schiano on 2007-05-29
    A graphical etimological dictionary
    Diccionario grafico etimologico

  • lstollin
    lstollin on 2007-10-22
    Shows relationships among words; click on one word and it starts to pop out with new words.  Color and texture of connections indicates what kind of relationship the words have.
  • mizmercer
    miz mercer on 2007-11-10
    Look up a word (or hit "Random" button) and see the relationships between words.
  • teajay
    Tysen Woodlock on 2007-11-22

    Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words
    to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce
    diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.


    Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree.
    Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes
    to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify
    connections.




    • It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
    • Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
    • The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
    • No membership required.



    Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s
    WordNet, an opensource
    database built by University students and language researchers. Combined
    with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern
    web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons
    of the web.

  • grendel133
    Joe Dixon on 2007-12-13


    I love this site because of how nicely it plays w/ our SMART
    Boards. It has become a great tool for initiating discussions in ELA
    classrooms. Simply hit the “Random” button and discuss the word w/ your class. You
    can of course use this as a vocabulary extension activity as well. I worked w/
    one class using Visuwords where we tried to predict (as a class and in small
    groups . . . nice way to allow for differentiation) related nouns, verbs, etc. This
    activity created engaging classroom discussion!



    In the schools where we have access to a SMART Board we use the pens to write
    our predictions, capture them to the Notebook and then discussed the discrepancies.
    Let me know how you use it in your classroom!

  • morganthefay
    Morgan the Fay on 2008-02-29
    Visuwords™ uses Princeton University’s
    WordNet, an opensource
    database built by University students and language researchers.
  • gailhd
    Gail Desler on 2008-12-19
    Whoa....Visuwords + Diigo - Oh my, think of the possibilities!
  • roxolanus
    Victor Kotusenko on 2009-03-14
    It's very well done. I like the system of connections especially.

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