Thursday, May 15, 2008

Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary

We all know that a lot of our students are visual learners. Check out Visuwords, a free resource for all web users. It is a dictionary and thesaurus and great for students, teachers and writers. 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.

Share this resource with students. They'll love it!

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