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Book Nook
The Landscape of the Classroom
Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2009
In this excerpt from his new book Beyond Cut and Paste, ed-tech guru Jamie McKenzie explains why having your students turn their backs on you may be a good thing in the laptop classroom!
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Blog Excerpts
Words of the World
Fri Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
"Words of the World" is a series of short videos presented by experts from the University of Nottingham's School of Modern Languages and Cultures. From vodka to junta, from aficionado to zeitgeist, the Nottingham scholars explore the global history of words in fascinating detail. Start watching here.
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Lesson Plans
What's Your Genus? Scientific Classification and the VT
Wed Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2008
In this lesson, students will learn about the fundamental system of scientific classification: binomial nomenclature. Teams of students will compete in a binomial name scavenger hunt using the Visual Thesaurus and the online "Catalogue of Life" to identify two-part binomial names within specific genus categories.
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: November Edition
Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2008
The Visual Thesaurus wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving. To celebrate, we've got a Thanksgiving theme for this month's puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Lesson Plans
Mind Your Pints and Quarts: Making Sense of Liquid Measurement
Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2009
How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to learn the U.S. customary system of measuring liquids and to apply their knowledge in solving math problems?
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Teachers at Work
"We're Only Doing This Because You Like Words!"
Mon Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2010
The title of this month's column is a direct quote from one of my students. Please imagine it being delivered in an accusatory tone. What caused such a lament? You see, I had the audacity to suggest that learning new words was, well, fun.
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: December Edition
Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2009
As we ring out the old and ring in the new, we're celebrating with a New Year's-themed crossword puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Candlepower
Bad Science
Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Science education may be on the decline. The general level of scientific knowledge may be headed back to the Dark Ages. But the language of science has never been more popular.
Or more woefully abused.
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Backstory
Sara Gran, author of "Dope"
Fri May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2006
It's probably true that you write the books you'd like to read. One day I started, just for fun, writing a book I had always wanted to read; a mystery novel as hard-boiled as I could make it, but with two significant restrictions: I wanted a woman in the lead role, and I wanted to make all the characters as real as I could, rather then rely on the conventions of noir, or the conventions of society at large (for example, the conventional wisdom that drug addicts are evil and heartless, that family is always kind and helpful, and so on). I loved old mystery novels and noir films (and still do), but as dark as some of them are, I felt like few were honest enough. Most seemed to stop short of some truth about the detective and his client, and I wanted to go beyond that point, to get at a deeper, more resonant place in the mystery. A further restriction I set for myself as I went along was that, aside from all my high-flying literary ideas, the book had to be an engaging mystery as well. I'd read plenty of "literary" mysteries that were neither.
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Word Routes
Obama's Second Inaugural: Behind the Words
Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2013
The presidential inaugural address, that quadrennial high point in American political rhetoric, invariably attracts a huge amount of attention. President Obama's address yesterday was the subject of meticulous scrutiny: his word choice, his rhetorical devices, and even his grammar all were analyzed by countless language kibitzers.
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