PBwiki becomes PBworks

When you visit your PBwiki account next time, you’ll notice it has got a new name: it has become PBworks. But don’t worry if you have a free account: your pbwikis are safe. You can learn more about the change here or here.

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Teaching with TED

We’ve mentioned  TED Talks before, teachers enjoy using them in class,  the site is a goldmine of inspiration.  I now want to bring to your attention a lovely wiki by Jackie Gerstein titled Teaching with TED, which  pulls together ideas and resources for – teaching with TED. Truly wonderful.  Worth checking out. Heard about it [...]

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Greek, Chinese, Spanish or something else?

When we don’t understand something a person says, the English the phrase “It’s all Greek to me” is used. Or even double Dutch. Other cultures may use a different language name in the same phrase. Check this graph by Liberman from the Language Log that sums up this phenomenon. In Slovene “To mi je španska [...]

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Top 100 Language Blogs

Top 100 Language Blogs – Lexiophiles

An interesting list of language blogs have been published by LexioPhiles, among them one of my favourites (the Language Log).  Have a look at them and them make sure you let us know which is YOUR favourite.

Beside a list of language blogs you can also find some interesting [...]

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Visualize words

The WordNet project of Princeton University groups words into sets of cognitive synonyms. This modern thesaurus can be searched with a browser. The information you get when you search for the word travel, for example, looks like this:

However, if you check the same word in Visuwords, it’ll look like this:

Learners may find the second more [...]

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