Visuwords (week 7)

This is the website resource:http://www.visuwords.com/


An introduction Video!

This website eventually makes teaching and learning in the second language more comprehensible.This technology is suitable for all levels of students.It is a Visual Dictionary as well as Thesaurus. This website brings in the idea of forming neural net diagrams in learning words.Teachers or students can look up words to find their meanings by hovering over nodes to see the definitions and this neural net formation shows the other associations and concepts linked to the words intended.Teachers and students can double-click a node to expand the neural diagram. They can also drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.They can also play with it by  clicking and dragging the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom.

A sample neural net for the word Welcome

Instructions

How do teachers and students go about using this website?? Don't worry just press the video below:

Additionally there is an example below using the word 'download'




The advantages gained from this website are:

1. helps new language learners understand the relationships between words
2. it is a visual dictionary and thesaurus,2 in 1!
3. a great tool for students in helping to improve their writing
4. encourages language enrichment
5. students can learn a wide range of vocabulary
6. provides definitions for words
7. an effective tool for visual learners

The disadvantages of using this website are:

1. not that interesting 
2. quit difficult for language learners to understand the connections between words
3. needs filtration among words as to many words appear for one needed word
4. the definitions seems to be too detail and students might not understand them
5. neural nets gets to hard to study if they are to much and sometimes very confusing

Recommendations

Teachers can use this tool with visual learners.Teachers can also use this website to introduce and define new or key vocabulary and terms during lessons. Teachers can also use this words to play word games like play a word journey game where students need to explore word derivation,experience the links between words, analyse the depth and complexity of word meanings, explore different word types and have fun!. 

Referencesourceforthepictureandvideosare:Visuwords.com