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Language Arts / Study Skills: (free) vocabulary learning toolset tracks progress, weeds out words you already know, creates mp3 files of word lists, and has a program for students to earn cash rewards on a pre-paid debit cards as they study

Introducing the Earworms Musical Brain Trainer Learn a new Language in Second Life, your Ipod, your iPhone or PC for the new year! 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music. The 70 minute Earworms SLCD's will play the tracks inworld - can be downloaded as mp3 files to your desktop, Ipod or Iphone and comes with full documentation on PDF files for you to print and read at your leisure. Come and sample Earworms for yourself inworld - visit us at and TP up to The Earworms Loft Earworms mbt puts the words and phrases you need not just on the tip of your tongue, but also transports them deep into your long-term memory. Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex. You will have successfully learned the phrase and have the correct accent ringing in your ears. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing: While jogging, in the car, in the bath, doing the ironing…you can be learning a new language at the same time! earworms mbt© Rapid Languages is the first language course to get your toe tapping. You know the phenomena of those catchy tunes or earworms that you just can't get out of your head? Voulezvous coucher avec moi, ce soir? Well, earworms mbt© has put this phenomena to positive use. Gone are the days of learning pressure and frustration at not being able to remember, the experience of many on conventional language courses. In combination with music, the phrases you need are automatically anchored deep into your memory, ready for instant recall.

search for pages with all, exact, one or more words - define what words you DON'T want, or select by reading level, language, file type, or within a site or domain

Marshall IDX: comparing the Popularity of Words in Media

Marshall IDX: comparing the Popularity of Words in Media

Save the Words: Web2.0 "adopt a word" - great words that are not commonly used - fun, interesting graphical interface

the 100 most beautiful words in the English language, apparently

Dictionary of Unusual Words

"People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That's been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It's actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever. Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I highly recommend. They both have pros and cons but in general are great for any beginner or novice designer. If Photoshop is a 4-letter word to you, then these sites are your friend. If you're a tech-savvy designer and illustrator, it can't hurt to check out some of the work on these two sites for inspiration."

a web application with an available bookmarklet that will automatically take text, either pasted in or from the referring webpage, and summarize it in as few lines as possible. There is a great article over at their blog about how great summaries disambiguate topics. That means that when a word is mentioned it uses context to determine what the actual sentence is about.

CSS4U / visualizing data: Interactive concept map of AIDS Research-related words

Edupunk: the "ineffable essence of nothing" - being a bubblegum punk or a true-to-heart punk who is really invested in changing the system depends on your actions, not just your words. Dean Groom makes some interesting points about the emerging "edupunk" idealogy.

web-based word processor that allows people to work together in REALLY real time

paste at least 100 words of text and see how "readable" it is

here's where the word "crowdsourcing" originated

keynote: wordle zombie tag: puzzle piece?

word cloud of list

Word Magnets: great for use with a smartboard in k-12 classrooms

PDF Converter: OCR of scanned images

Wallwisher: online notice board maker - no registration required - effective for ESL and struggling students. use images, music, video, pages. Drag and Drop, re-arrange

cbss and national center and webtools: visuwords - an online graphical dictionary