Comments on: Vocabulary Blogs

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:41:50 +0000

We have started a blog on picture dictionary http://www.pixionary.blogspot.com which will be helpful for everyone who has passion to learn vocabulary
You get a daily dosage of words.
We took utmost care in handpicking of images so they encode in users brain forever.

We encourage users sending us words,pictures and credit goes to them in our site.
All suggestions/improvements are always welcome

By: Rao

Rao — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:14:41 +0000

Great for vocabulary study. Nice simple interface for learning synonyms and antonyms.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:04:02 +0000

Memorize.com is pretty compelling for vocabulary. Might be interesting for what you’re doing. On the memorize.com pages you create, you can add introductory paragraphs and headings that are separate elements on the page from the vocabulary. Also it lets you break lists of vocab words down into smaller easier-to-digest groups, with related ones together.

By: Cornelia

Cornelia — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:02:30 +0000

Oops, I goofed–so if you want to see that site with the vocabulary flash cards and photographs, click on my name in the previous entry (or this one, since I’ll no doubt make the same mistake :))

By: Cornelia

Cornelia — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:55:05 +0000

As a teacher, I like this idea of using conversation about words as an aid to learning them! I’ve got an idea that might stimulate student participation.

Vocab experts agree that simply learning definitions is not sufficient for true learning, which requires a multi-layered approach. Such an approach should include illustration, context, and repetition.

Conversation would certainly provide all three!

One way to aid or stimulate conversation might be the use of images in conjunction with the words. For example, you could include images with your words and the conversation might focus on whether or not the students think the images appropriately reflect the meanings of the words you’ve paired them with. You could pair a word with multiple images and then ask your students which image reflects the word meaning best.

This approach would obviously prompt some “deep thinking” of the sort that experts say is necessary in word learning and if the images were good ones, that could make the conversation lively! Here’s a cool free site that gives vocabulary flash cards with photographs of the kind you might use.