Contents:
1) Dry but necessary (and interesting, really) background to computer-assisted “corpus linguistics”;
2) Application of Vocab Profiler to a little “Scribe 2.0″ medieval satire I had fun writing way back when;
3) Tutorial on some uses of Vocab Profiler to aid in scaffolding classroom reading comprehension;
4) Caveats and Take-Aways
Dan Meyer just posted a refreshing little jeremiad against […]
By Clay Burell
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Tagged ESL, linguistics, literacy, paul nation, vocabulary
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Just doinking around with Mystudiyo. They say they’ll never make me pay for this when they leave beta, which is cool - but I always wonder what will happen to this sort of work if the company goes out of business. Is all my labor lost?
That being said, I love the ease of use. [UPDATE: […]
[Apture rocks. Click the icon beside Shirky, and the one beside “addons”, and then click each of the icons that I loaded, and watch the magic. I don’t have to spell out how rich a tool this is for every use, educational and otherwise, you can think of, do I? It’s in invitation-only beta right […]
Standing on a corner
in Hong Kong -
It ain’t so good to be alone
in Hong Kong.
–Screaming Jay Hawkins, “Hong Kong” (psst…do yourself a favor and click the little icon for a classic Screaming Jay number on Youtube, and a Wikipedia link, thanks to the very cool Apture tool)
Just a quickie to show the local flavor of […]
A quickie: A couple weeks ago, I posted about the fatal weakness of RSS readers - their exclusion of a feed’s comments. Derrick Kwa replied with an offer to send me a no longer available WordPress plugin that shows a post’s comments underneath it. Derrick was kind enough to follow through (and by the […]
