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Very cool Firefox extension lets you select a word and perform a multitude of actions including reference to dictionaries or wikipedia, convert, translate, shop, share, etc. Check out the popular Firefox Add-On Hyperwords.Updated to version 5.5 and now supports Twitter and Facebook. Available for free from http://www.hyperwords.n...

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This free Firefox add-on allows you to see the definition of any word displayed on the browser screen by hovering the mouse cursor over the word and pressing the spacebar. Definitions are provided by Wiktionary. For more info check out Paul Hamilton's r

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This is a very nice word-search game on the tags associated with Flikr photos. Just type in a word (you don't need a Flikr name unless you only want to restrict the use to only your own photos) and the puzzle is created instantly. The clues to the words are the pictures around the puzzle, and the words are generated from the picture tags. For more info see Paul Hamilton's review.

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This subscription site allows you to look up a limited number of words per day for free. After you type in a word, related words are displayed in a concept-type web. You can then click on any of those words to display their related words.

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Free online dictionary with derivations and audio pronunciation. The site also has a word of the day, daily puzzles, multilingual dictionary, and text translation. Site also has a Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, All reference, and web tab. "Cite this source" button on all the reference tools takes you to citations already done in different styles.

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Great visual, especially on the Smartboard. Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

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Great visuals and ideal for theme study. Enter a word to look up or just explore by theme. The definitions are constructed as pages with a small amount of text and labeled drawings on which the labels are also clickable links. This would be a great "multiple means of representation" resource.

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Online thesaurus that displays word associations in a colorful web. The thesaurus gives you an option to change the display, viewing all of the words or focussing only on the synonyms, antonyms, fuzznyms, adverbs, adjectives, verbs, nouns.

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Drag and drop (or type) words from a word bank onto an image. Would be outstanding for writing Haiku. Reviewed by Kelly Tenkley at iLearn Technology Jan 14, 2009.

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NIEHS Kids Brainteasers, Rebus Pages, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, to introduce kids to science and research interests.

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Amazing spelling site recommended by James Hollis (Teachers Love SMARTBoards). Definitely instant implementation. Input a list of spelling words and click test me, teach me, or play a game. The test me section gives the word orally , uses it in a sentence, and the student spells it and gets feedback. The teach me section spells the word orally and uses it in a sentence. The play a game section instantly generates games such as word search, crosswords, hangman using the spelling words. The games work great on a smartboard.

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Ghotit Dyslexia Assistance offers a unique spell checker. Enter text with outrageous spelling mistakes, try our Alpha version now.

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Describes how to do a PWIM lesson. Also see my PWIM tag.

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This is a toy for generating colourful and interesting word clouds from text. This text can be typed, copied and pasted from another source, or imported directly from a blog url or rss feed. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, colours, and layouts. Take a screen shot to save your creation as there isn't a way to export as a jpeg. Wordles would make great title pages or slides and could be a fun class brainstorming activity or a way for kids to practice writing their spelling words. Kids could create a wordle of adjectives to describe themselves or a character in a novel. They could also be used to analyze student writing for repetitious words or to get the gist of an article. See my wordle tag or WebSlide list of sites with ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

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Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game. This would be a fun activity for intermediate and high school students. if the words are too difficult for students, they can start back at level 1 with words like "penny" and "pony". You can also change the subject at the top of the screen to practice grammar, geography, time tables, and other skills. Warning...it's completely addictive.

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Snagged this off the David Livingstone website. Choose your language and then click on a topic such as "body" . You get a diagram, and when you hover over each part the program pronounces that item in a human (not computer) voice.

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Instant Implementation Idea for teaching figures of speech! When you first open the site you get a caption such as "Gimme some skin" and the site invites you to guess what that might mean (gives you 4 choices) while the image is loading. Kids could discuss or write their responses. After you click one of the choices, the photo is revealed and you have a chance to change your answer.

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Toolkit especially for developing vocabulary and comprehension skills in high school students. This is an excellent resource that includes actual lesson plans. Very nice summary of the kinds of supports you can provide for recognition, strategic, affective networks in the context of teaching reading. Also nice downloadable student cards and posters for an expanded list of reading comprehension strategies suitable for high school students.

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Fun online word game that is simultaneously projected on a big screen in Times Square. In Times Square, it's played with a cell phone. Letters come up on the big screen, and you text your highest scoring word to a certain number. When a real challenge is running, you are playing the same game as the folks in Times Square. Otherwise you're playing online. Might get expensive texting from Canada, but the next time I'm in New York, look out!

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This is a webslides tour of ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

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