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Overview of "a software tool for designing learning activities using a flexible visual interface" (What is CompendiumLD?, 2009.10.17)

Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus has launched an innovative new tool called VocabGrabber (http://vocabgrabber.com) that helps teachers and students target the key vocabulary from a text within seconds. Powered by the award-winning Visual Thesaurus software, VocabGrabber intelligently extracts words from any document and demonstrates how those words are used in context. It's a boon for language arts teachers, students of English at all levels of proficiency, or anyone who wants fresh insights into how language works. VocabGrabber is easy to use. Simply copy a passage (up to about 100 pages) into a box on the VocabGrabber web site (http://vocabgrabber.com), click the Grab Vocabulary button, and an interactive visualization of vocabulary words and phrases immediately appears. Or add a VocabGrabber button to your toolbar, and you can grab vocabulary words from a web page with one click. What makes VocabGrabber especially useful is the way in which the words are organized. VocabGrabber compares how often words appear in the text with the frequency of these words in standard written English overall. Grabbing the vocabulary from the United States Bill of Rights, for instance, highlights significant legal terms like probable cause and cruel and unusual punishment. Grabbing the opening of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, meanwhile, will quickly zero in on words like workhouse, gruel, and pauper.

One of four tabs in the SuperPower: Visualizing the internet collection, including: The top 100, ..., Net growth, & How it works

"TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines. Beginners can create a timeline using nothing more than a Google spreadsheet" (Timeline JS, Overview, 2017.01/11).

Graphic presentation helping users "navigate through 50 settings with more than 170 options" (¶1),

"Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps. It takes a structured list of words or sentences, interprets it, and draws a mind map out of them" (description below working display, above Hints for using it).

Online image editor, beta version, takes gif, jpg, and png files up to 800 Kb. In May 2011, Rhondda Powling said it "offers twenty-two effects" and combinations"  (Diigo, Images4Education, 04 May 11).

Pho.to site offers a number of online services for photo editing, photo fun and sharing. All of them use our best digital imaging technologies and are designed to make your digital photography experience even more convenient and fun.