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(Infographic) 50 Mobile Learning Statistics For K-12 Education (#mlearning) Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Edutopia | K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work. Classroom Aid | Learning Games – English. Digital Play is a blog with game-based learning resources and ideas for EFL/ESL teachers interested in using games and digital tools for their learners.

The British Council’s Learn English website and Learning English Kids are great resources for learning with games. The BBC’s Skillswise website is a good resource for learning English and Math. On the grammar and spelling page there are 21 activities suitable for students of middle school age. Starfall has a lot of free teaching resources including pdf files of handouts to use with students. The Kindersite has 1,000s of links to the best games, songs and stories for young children and language learners. Smarty Games features games for developing basic mathematics and reading skills. Grammar Ninja is a fun game for students to play as they develop a working knowledge of the parts of speech. The Houghton Mifflin Company produces Grammar Blast. Game Goo – It’s a English learning site for young kids.

Languagegames.org – English learning games. Words by Theme : Vocabulary Word Lists : Vocabulary : English.

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Hints. Words. Graphic_resources. API_resources. Online Dictionary, Language Guide, Foreign Language and Etymology. TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links - ESL. ESLThis is a sub-page ofThe Internet TESL Journal'sTESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL LinksLinks of Interest to Teachers and Students of English as a Second Language There are currently 10192 registered links.Main Page | Links for Students | Links for Teachers | What's New Categories: Activities for ESL Students (The Internet TESL Journal)

Catch the Spelling (Online Game for Studying Spelling & Vocabulary) Lists of animals. Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags. Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification. " The written version is a heavily edited concatenation of those two talks.

Today I want to talk about categorization, and I want to convince you that a lot of what we think we know about categorization is wrong. In particular, I want to convince you that many of the ways we're attempting to apply categorization to the electronic world are actually a bad fit, because we've adopted habits of mind that are left over from earlier strategies. I also want to convince you that what we're seeing when we see the Web is actually a radical break with previous categorization strategies, rather than an extension of them. PART I: Classification and Its Discontents # Q: What is Ontology? And yet. Domain. About WordNet - WordNet - About WordNet. Etymology. Design Studies : Designing: Rules, types and words. 10 Spelling Bee Game Websites That Help Your Children Spell Words Right. You would think that getting the right spelling wouldn’t be important enough to warrant competitions that are fought tooth and nail.

In fact, Spelling Bee contests are not only keenly fought in many English speaking countries but also broadcasted live in some just like a regular sports event. That proves something as simple as getting the spelling right has enough of crowd pulling power. Though children form the main focus group, a lot of the competitions are open for adults too. Think of spelling tests as a necessary requirement to get the language right. The next Scripps National Spelling Bee is still a few months away in the United States. Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee The well known online word app throws two challenges ““ a Tournament Spelling Bee and the Community Spelling Bees. The Times Spelling Bee You can have a feel of a real world Spelling Bee competition on this U.K. based site. Tumble Bees BigIQKids The free spelling game gives your child a bit of spelling practice.

Interface Between Two Files Using the LocalConnection Class | Blancer.com Tutorials and projects. Interface Between Two Files Using the LocalConnection Class In this tutorial we will use the AS3 LocalConnection class to send and receive data between two different SWF files. Today we will use this to detect mouse movement in one SWF and mirror it in another. Final Result Preview Let’s take a look at the final result we will be working towards. Below are two completely different files. This tutorial is split into two sections. Section 1: Sending Information Step 1: Sending New Flash Document Firstly, create a new ActionScript 3.0 file. Then, resize the file to 600px × 250px.

Step 2: Sending Add a Background This step is not necessary for functionality, but more for aesthetics. Step 3: Sending Create Document Class Save your FLA as Sending.fla and then create a blank AS file. Then go back and link the document class to the FLA. Step 4: Sending Set Up Document Class Add a blank package, class and constructor function to your AS file. Step 5: Sending Import Classes Next is the constructor function.

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