Semantic view of words, their meanings, and their relationships with other words.

Graphic novels have been gaining acceptance in classrooms and school libraries across the nation - and for good reason. They can often motivate even the most reluctant readers to turn page after page, becoming wrapped up in the images and text they contain, and this makes graphic novels amazing teaching tools on a wide variety of subjects. If you're looking to make the most of this media for engaging your students and exploring the great stories they have to tell, here are some great ways to enrich your classes with graphic novels that any teacher can employ in the service of a every age group possible.

eType is your online multi-language dictionary with translations and word substitutes to virtually any language in the world. eType is your writing guide that auto-completes your words as you type them, enabling you to type faster and boost your level of confidence in your writing. eType prevents you from making spelling mistakes before they happen and helps you select the best word choice possible - even if you are not writing in your native language.

Grammar lessons, exercises, and rules for everyday use

Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts. Words on the line, referred to as linking words or linking phrases, specify the relationship between the two concepts. We define concept as a perceived regularity in events or objects, or records of events or objects, designated by a label. The label for most concepts is a word, although sometimes we use symbols such as + or %, and sometimes more than one word is used. Propositions are statements about some object or event in the universe, either naturally occurring or constructed. Propositions contain two or more concepts connected using linking words or phrases to form a meaningful statement. Sometimes these are called semantic units, or units of meaning. Figure 1 shows an example of a concept map that describes the structure of concept maps and illustrates the above characteristics. ==== Great article explaining and demonstrating use of mindmaps as a tool to enable and enhance learning

The ability to speak the foreign language in question can safely be described as the principal objective of learning foreign languages. However, it can often prove difficult to assess your pupils' ability to speak the foreign language in the classroom, as time and numbers often conspire against us.

This presentation goes through 10 questions that a teacher should ask when they are designing a unit of work/learning sequence. It's a "big picture" presentation that is good for universal design, so when it must be considered in context. For example, if you are planning an ESL unit, you need to keep the ESL objectives, outcomes, and indicators in mind, too.

Education 2.0: Social networking for your class. Diipo connects you the teacher with your students by making it easy to communicate with your class. Diipo also connects you with other educators and your class with other classes. Featuring an easy-to-use and familiar user-interface similar to Facebook and Twitter, Diipo helps students stay connected and engaged.

Whether you think email communication is good or bad, it's here to stay, and how you compose an email speaks to your professionalism, reliability, and personal image. So here are some tips on how to manage this vital tool.

ESL Reader is an Online Reading Help for students learning English as a Second Language (ESL). Use it to speed up your reading time and improve reading skills. Anytime you need to read online text in English, copy that text and run it through ESL Reader. It will make each word into a link so you can easily look-up word definition or translation simply by clicking on it. With ESL Reader you use numerous dictionaries and references without reloading text. Just change the reference source and click on the same word to look it up again.

This site contains libraries of phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy. **Fantastic visuals of how the anatomy works when producing sounds**

Great phonetics site!!!

how one goes about starting a PLN, how do you monitor it, and how do you learn to shut it off

Weblogged discussion and journal of discoveries, questions, feedback, reactions, and useful information on LEON. Links to the newest web resources for effectively learning and teaching English on the Internet through technolog. Includes my own personal journey in accomplishing that goal.

List of podcasts for ESL use.

over is using concrete objects with ELLs and I bring them into the Smithsonian artifacts website.  I will also now point them to this blog.  It is so true that seeing objects stays in a students' mind longer than words.

Quick clear discussion of spaces after periods and who/that for pets and animals.