Comments on: A People’s Dictionary? Words Web 2.0 style http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2009/06/23/a-peoples-dictionary-words-web-20-style/ "When 1 teaches, 2 learn." Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:28:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Matthias Heil http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/2009/06/23/a-peoples-dictionary-words-web-20-style/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Matthias Heil Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:00:15 +0000 http://ddeubel.edublogs.org/?p=73#comment-83 A few interesting web applications dealing with vocabulary have come to my attention recently. They show alternatives to traditional dictionaries, and their potential for the classroom is far from being discovered: wordnik.com visuwords.com visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml Even parts of the BNC are available online today (first 50 matches are displayed): http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/index.xml A few interesting web applications dealing with vocabulary have come to my attention recently. They show alternatives to traditional dictionaries, and their potential for the classroom is far from being discovered:

wordnik.com
visuwords.com
visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber
onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

Even parts of the BNC are available online today (first 50 matches are displayed):
http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/index.xml

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