Wintergrams
With the chilly season gaining momentum, it’s time to start thinking about holiday cards, season’s greetings and general well-wishing.
If you’re short of ideas, tired of hackneyed ones – or if you’re looking to provide students with interesting ideas and language – WINTERGRAMS allows you to create unusual and witty holiday messages and send them via e-mail or social networking sites.
Push a few buttons and tweak a few meters for length, holiday type or degree of “slushiness” and get some instant wintery inspiration.
Snappy Words
Snappy: quick, lively, interactive, energetic, zippy…
Words: concepts, meanings, dictionary, thesaurus, connections, associations,…
SNAPPY WORDS is a visual thesaurus which allows you to display a map of words and concepts and its meanings and draw connections to associated words by simply placing the mouse cursor over them or clicking on them.
To display its connections, the site allegedly uses an online lexical database, but the associations tend to be over-simplified and lack complexity and in-depth awareness of collocations and nuances, as Hugh Dellar points out in his post about the site. Try looking up the word LOVE, see what you think…
Newsy
Newsy is a multi-source video news service that uses different media sources to analize news stories from around the world and bring them together in a concise video format. The videos come together with a transcript, where the sources used are quoted and links to them provided, so users can compare the different perspectives and coverage, as well as comment on them.
Newsy also offers mobile apps.
Human calendar
If you’d like to celebrate diversity or you’re short of visual input to practise vocabulary on clothes, people’s appearance, feelings AND numbers and dates, then check out HUMAN CALENDAR.
You can tweak the settings for more buzzing faces and reactions and get an embed code to display it in your blogs, sites or VLE’s.
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Yours Truly, 