Search for Vocabulary Lists and Learn New Words on Vocabulary.com

Vocabulary.com is an excellent vocabulary study service offering thousands of vocabulary practice lists and activities for students in elem...

The Top 10+ Sites for a Successful 1:1 Laptop Program: Experiences from the Trenches

 Greetings from Rock Valley, Iowa, the land of cows and corn! As we wind up our school year this week, I have begun reflecting on just how m...

Vocabla - Learn English and Spanish

Vocabla is a service for learning English, Spanish, and Polish vocabulary. The service can be used online or with the free iPhone and Andro...

A Simple Tool for Finding SAT & ACT Vocabulary Words on Any Website

During a workshop that I ran on Monday someone noticed the Professor Word bookmarklet that I have displayed in my Chrome browser. So durin...

Unused Words - Learn New Words Daily

Unused Words is on a mission to expose people to words that they probably don't hear on a regular basis if at all. Every day Unused Wor...

Professor Word - Identify SAT & ACT Vocabulary Words on Any Webpage

Professor Word is a promising new service that should help students learn new SAT and ACT vocabulary words. Professor Word operates as a br...

Graph Words - An Instant Visual Thesaurus

Graph Words is a neat little site that provides webs of related words. If you're like me and you tend to use the word "awesome...

Embed Plus Offers Real-World Context for Vocabulary Words

Embed Plus is a free service for clipping and annotating YouTube videos. I wrote about the service and included a demo of it last winter. ...

Get Ready for the 2012 WordGirl Definition Competition

On May 1, 2012 Scholastic is hosting a live WordGirl Definition Competition . During the live webcast classrooms can play along by submittin...

Words of the World - The Origins of Words

Words of the World is another great series of videos from the University of Nottingham (they also brought us the Periodic Table of Videos ...

Alphabetimals - A Fun Way to Learn the Alphabet

Alphabetimals is a nice website on which you will find some nice resources for helping young children learn the alphabet. The main feature ...

Wordia - Vocabulary Videos and Games

Wordia , a vocabulary resource that I initially reviewed last year , recently underwent a facelift. The new Wordia is much more student-frie...

Vizlingo - A Fun Little Vocabulary Exercise

Vizlingo is an interesting little service for creating and sending short video messages. Here's what it does; you type in a short phras...

Three Vocabulary Apps for Android That I'm Testing

This morning I had the opportunity to run a couple of short workshops at my own school. Other than the initial oddness of being "the co...

Graph Words - Create a Visual Thesaurus

Graph Words is a simple visual thesaurus. To use it just enter a word and a web of related words will appear. You can click on any word in ...

Vocabulary Widgets for Your Blog or Website

Last week, in response to one of my new teaching assignments, I posted a list of seven resources for teaching and learning vocabulary . Toda...

Clockwords - A Speedy Vocabulary Game

Clockwords is an interesting game that tests your vocabulary and your ability to type quickly. The game is set in the context of an invento...

MyVocabulary.com - Vocabulary Lesson Plans and Puzzles

MyVocabulary.com offers free vocabulary lessons, word lists, and word puzzles designed for middle school and high school students. The voca...

Power Vocab - An iPhone App for Vocabulary Study

Power Vocab is a free iPhone App for learning and studying vocabulary commonly found on the GMAT and GRE. The app uses artificial intellige...

Three Free Android Apps for Vocabulary Practice

Last month I bought a new Android-powered phone and have been experimenting with different free apps that I've found in the Android Mark...