Posted in Reference on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Word Finding Difficulties
http://www.wordfinding.com/
This Word Finding web site provides information about Word Finding for professionals, parents, and learners with word finding difficulties.
Posted in Reference on Oct 10th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s not Its
Excellent. Now if they expanded it they’d have Confusing Words
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Posted in Reference on Mar 3rd, 2005 1 Comment »
The New York Public Library Digital Image Collection is a well organized and useful collection of all sorts of visual references, from famous photographs, paintings and maps, to posters and descriptive diagrams. Dig around in this collection and hours later you’ll come up for air. I just spent an hour digging. Gad.
Here’s a random [...]
Posted in Reference on Mar 1st, 2005 1 Comment »
American Rhetoric is a large collection of audio files of historic American speeches, read by actors (Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, etc.). Really good stuff and quite accessible.
Source: Scott James
Posted in Reference on Feb 9th, 2005 No Comments »
The Simple English Wikipedia is an alternative version of Wikipedia which is the fastest growing online encyclopedia. The simple English version is aimed at ESL users as well as any users who would have a harder time with the vocabulary and longer entries of the regular version.
Source: kottke.org
Posted in Reference on Feb 7th, 2005 No Comments »
Answers.com looks like a great resource for looking things up. They support natural language queries “what is dyslexia?” and the web site is a modern one with no banners or advertising like Dictionary.com. Looks quite useful, even with mispellings.
Source: kottke.org
Posted in Reference on Jan 29th, 2005 No Comments »
The Visual Thesaurus is both an online tool and a piece of software that you can buy on CD and install locally. It’s the Inspiration visual mapping program on steroids with live animation: click on a word in the map and it becomes the locus and all of it’s connected words spring forth. [...]