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Lumens Projectors are great tools for letting students show examples of figurative language, strong leads and great writing they find in mentor texts. They can also be used to magnify graphs, charts and pictures from library or text books.
Can you think of other ways you could use this tool in your classroom?
eBook Hatch is an online book creating site that is absolutely free.
http://www.ebookhatch.com/
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
- It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
- Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
- The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
- No membership required.
http://www.visuwords.com/