Creating a Visual Dictionary on the iPad
Pic Collage (free), is one of my favorite apps to use on my iPad. It creates great looking Scrapbook pages of multiple images in no time. Today, as I was planning with our first grade Hebrew teacher, how to upgrade a traditionally taught vocabulary project (creating a dictionary of their weekly vocabulary words in Hebrew), we saw the opportunity to use PicCollage with students in the classroom. (My apologies in advance for the example below is in Spanish and not in Hebrew) Reminder: The idea of a visual dictionary should/is not be confined to the World Language classroom.
How to quickly learn declensions and conjugations
I’m definitely a weirdo. I enjoy learning grammar! Declensions, conjugations, possessive pronouns. I love them all! And there is a good reason for that! They are simply one of the easiest things to learn in most languages!
Town Name Generator - Generate Real And Fantasy Town Names!
Jump down to the Generator To create a good town name, it needs to describe your town, whether that be fictional or real. The name of the town is usually the first impression on people passing through or coming to live. If you are a property developer and have a town to name, you can name it with the features of the land in mind, for example, if the town has two rivers meeting at it, you could call it Two Rivers or something similar.
How to Create a Powerful Antagonist: The Epic Villain Breakdown — She's Novel
What are they? Mental Illness Track: Self Mental Illness is an umbrella term for any number of diseases your main character may have to face. Depression, anxiety, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress - Mental Illness villains are tough for your MC to identify and defeat because they are, in essence, fighting against their own minds. To learn more about mental illnesses, check out my friend Faye Kirwin's amazing blog, Writerology.
Translate text into phonetic script
I always believe that the best sites and web tools are the simplest, and this is certainly the case with Phonetizer. It's a really easy to use tool that takes and text and adds the phonetic spelling below it. It's really easy to use. You just cut and paste or type in the text you want to use in the left hand side, click on 'Transcribe' and the text appears on the right with the phonetic writing underneath each line. You can then cut and paste to a document if you want to save it. Related links:
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JOHNSON is a fan of the Freakonomics books and columns. But this week’s podcast makes me wonder if the team of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt aren’t overstretching themselves a bit. “Is learning a foreign language really worth it?”
Tips for Naming your Business - Fuze Branding
The name is arguably the most important decision you will make about your business. It can describe who you are, what you do, and can be your first opportunity to establish a relationship with your customer. It’s the ultimate first impression, and of course, you want to make it a good one.
Ten rules for writing fiction
Elmore Leonard: Using adverbs is a mortal sin 1 Never open a book with weather. If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a character's reaction to the weather, you don't want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people.
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How to identify any language at a glance
Sign Up for Our free email newsletters Thanks to globalization, it's very likely that at some point you've found yourself faced with a line of text written in a language you couldn't quite identify.
"OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. Keep it short to get the best results. In most cases you'll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown firs" by macopa May 14
Thanks for adding this - great tool! by ewingcove Nov 14