The site claims that it will address 10 times more mistakes than a word processor including contextual spelling errors and poor vocabulary usage.
Where was this grammar resource site/tool when I was having to write so many papers in college? Now this will be a great option to go right along with hemingwayapp.com for reviewing my blog posts.
Time to share this with my staff and students!
"Before y'all get out your flamethrowers and head to the comments, I'd like to say a few things. I'm neither vitriolic, panicked, nor bitter about Khan Academy. I think it's a great resource and it's an excellent place to see a demonstration of procedures. I send my own students to it during exam review time, and they report that it is helpful."
"Math Mistakes, a project from Michael Pershan, who's also killing it on the blog-front lately.
Geometry Daily, "a new minimal geometric composition every day," each one worth framing and hanging alongside the hunting trophies at dy/dan manor."
having students write blog posts instead of traditional research papers might raise the stakes of writing as a form of communication by providing students with an audience beyond the instructor
"There is an awful lot of hot air blown about accessing student work from "class sets" of iPads, via email, WebDAV, Dropbox etc etc. A little known and cool method is this… We all know that we can share via iTunes over USB to any Mac/PC with a recent version of iTunes."