Another great vocabulary tool!

One of the first posts on this blog was for a great vocabulary visualization program called VisuWords. Since then I have heard both good and just so-so feed back - the so-so being that a few of you had some trouble with it running slowly sometimes. Well, Lexipedia is another visual vocabulary tool that has all of the good components you liked about VisuWords, and fast graphics.

Lexipedia is a pretty fun vocabulary tool. Just like VisuWords, you type in the vocabulary word you want to search. Lexipedia immediately pops up a web with the vocabulary word in the middle and surrounded by the noun forms, verb forms, adjective forms, synonyms, antonyms, and something called "fuzzynyms" for that word. On the left is a menu that gives the information in a more formal thesaurus type format.
You can click on the key so that you can only view certain forms of the word. Roll over that form with the mouse and you'll get a pop-up that uses it in a sentence. It's extremely simple, very fast, and really fun to play with! Give Lexipedia a try and I'm sure you'll see what I did - a great tool for your students!

Want to do something different for Vocab study? Try Visuwords

Visuwords is a cool online graphical dictionary that helps the user "visualize" the meaning of a word in many of it's forms. For students, it's a great alternative to old school dictionaries. Enter a word and Visuwords will produce diagrams (that look a little like a neural net) so the user can learn how words associate literally at-a-glance.

You can click and drag to pan around and zoom. Hover the cursor over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

You don't need to sign up for an account or sign in. Just book mark this page or even write the link on the board - www.visuwords.com and it's a quick click for students to have an alternative for vocabulary study.