Some days just don’t seem as much fun as others, and then along comes a really “cool” site on the Internet that just makes you smile all over yourself. This is what happened to me today when I received an e-mail from Paul Barron sharing this great “graphical dictionary”, Visual Words.
Paul describes the site as a visual dictionary that looks up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. It produces diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
* It’s a dictionary! It’s a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there is an Internet connection.
* No membership required.
Visuwords uses Princeton University a WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.
This dictionary is begging for SmartBoard use!
Thanks, Paul! :-)
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