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Sometimes you know the word you want to use, but you just can't say it when you are in a situation that is putting you under pressure. Activity to help students think of words under preasure. Uses Google images, so check for suitability.

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share

create a free account to create flash story books using collections of images from contributing artists. Books can be marked public or private, and linked to, but not embedded, in other web pages.

from J valenza's column - A search on Impressionism reveals 12 large thumbnail stacks of paintings by a variety of Impressionist painters organized by their visual and semantic similarities. Select a stack and the images arrange themselves as a cluster, swirling into view. You can continue to drill down through related subgroups within each cluster in a mapping strategy, reminiscent of Google's Wonder Wheel available in the Search Options panel. Image Swirl searches are currently available for approximately 200,000 queries. - http://u.nu/56bw3

A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion. Whenever someone enters a room, their eyes inadvertently glance up at the corners of the room to give them the contextual dimensions of the space they're in.