{"id":2144,"date":"2013-12-09T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2013-12-08T15:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T23:13:55","slug":"app-4-of-10-apps-to-countdown-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/app-4-of-10-apps-to-countdown-season\/","title":{"rendered":"App #4 of &#8220;10 Apps to Countdown Season&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>App #4:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;<em>I hate <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/web-resource\/google-docs-for-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Docs<\/a>!<\/em>&#8221; stated a student in an advanced writing class. \u00a0The teacher being stunned by this emphatic state turned my way with a &#8220;now what!&#8221; look. \u00a0After probing, it became clear that this writer liked the thesaurus dictionary in MSWord. \u00a0A quick introduction to online visual dictionaries opened a whole different world not only to the group but also for the teacher in expanding to other classes. Here are two of my favourites:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"lexipedia\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/lexipedia.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexipedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lexipedia<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0provides a visual display connection of words (nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and relationships fuzzynyns, synonyms, antonyms). \u00a0Hovering over the term offers a definition. \u00a0More importantly, this tool has an embedded audio option of the text. You can see a definite plus for those students who need this type of support.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/09\/app-4-of-10-apps-to-countdown-season\/visuwords\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"visuwords\" src=\"http:\/\/digisandbox.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/visuwords.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visuwords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Visuwords<\/strong><\/a>, another online visual dictionary uses colours and a variety of line shapes to define relationships\u00a0\u00a0and connections much like a concept map. Type a word in the box and see the connected terms come alive.<\/p>\n<p>What are your favourite tools for expanding vocabulary in writing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App #4:\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;I hate Google Docs!&#8221; stated a student in an advanced writing class. \u00a0The teacher being stunned by this emphatic state turned my way with a &#8220;now what!&#8221; look. \u00a0After probing, it became clear that this writer liked the thesaurus dictionary in MSWord. \u00a0A quick introduction to online visual dictionaries opened a whole different world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,83,14],"tags":[18,26,34,44,56,64,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}