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Kidblog.org
For one of my classes I try to have the kids blog regularly. It’s a hard thing to do from a technical point of view. There are very few inexpensive or free sites where I can have the students write … Continue reading
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Two fun English resources
I have to admit that I’m not a great fan of English as a subject. I never enjoyed it that much. That said, I recently came across two cool websites that can add a little fun into the subject. National … Continue reading
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Inauguration Speech Generator
In the wake of the new president’s swearing in last week, I stumbled across an Innauguration Speech Generator. It’s a kind of a cool little Mad Lib style activity where you fill in adjectives, nouns and verbs and it pops … Continue reading
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Save the Words!
Over the weekend I discovered Save the Words which is a site that asks you to save old, outdated words. Every year new dictionaries come out and drop older, little used words. Think of the treasures we’re losing. To help … Continue reading
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The Ad Generator
How meaningful is language? How meaningful is it when it’s combined with a picture? The Ad Generator explores these questions by taking pictures and captions from real ads and randomly putting them together. The really odd part about the exercise … Continue reading
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Reverse Dictionary
Have you ever known what an idea was, but not known the exact word for it? You know the definition, but not the term, and someone tells you to look it up in the dictionary. That, of course, doesn’t work. … Continue reading
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