Blog#5b_2010_BP_web2.0Tools

The next tool I have chosen is found at http://visualthesaurus.com. This site offers a word of the day. I know that will not thrill my students, however there is another feature they will enjoy. If you type in a word, this site will do a word map that shows other words and their relationship with the word you typed. I plan to have my students use this when they ask what a word means.

This site would be great for my ELL students. Oftentimes it is hard for them to understand words when you try to relate it to another word. This thesaurus would show them the relationship from a word they know to other words. It would also show them what a word means that they didn't know and the relationship to a word they did know.