sexta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2008

Visuwords: online graphical dictionary and thesaurus


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.

XMind


XMind is an open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and share them for collaboration. Supporting mind maps, fishbone diagrams, tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and even spreadsheets. Often used for knowledge management, meeting minutes, task management, and GTD. XMind is compatible with Freemind. The latest version is XMind 3.

XMIND can export the mind maps into Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, PDF and Mindjet MindManager documents. A mind map/fishbone chart is created by simply hitting Tab and Enter to create new topics and subtopics. Boundaries, relationships, markers, labels, notes, audio notes, attachments, hyperlinks and graphics can be added into a mind map/fishbone chart.

PollDaddy


PollDaddy provides polling and survey widgets to over 500,000 users around the world. Launching in October 06, they have become the number one provider of poll widgets online. Their polls are used on social networks, blogs, corporate websites etc...

quinta-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2008

Web 2.0 tools for EFL teaching


web 2.0 tools for ESL/EFL teaching (how to become web literate)

From: thiagoedu,
6 months ago





You shall see most apps and site from the web 2.0 here, in a ppt designed to help ESL/SFL teachers cope with the web 2.o in class. Topics disscussed: efl teaching, esl teaching, web 2.0, delicious, tagging. social bookmarking, microblogging, blogging, twitter, alice in wonderland, digital native, digital immigrant, digital voyer, digital refugee, podcast, rss reader, feed, aggregate. Care to leave a comment? Thanks! Thiago Eduardo - thiagoedu@gmail.com (presentation made for a Braz-Tesol one day seminar in Brasilia, Brazil on May 30th, 2008)



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segunda-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2008

A dialogue between two teenagers







Podcast created during a workshop...not bad but I still have to practice much...