The New York Times Learning Network has been running a Summer Reading Contest for students, and each week a different literacy organization judges the competition. This week, Vocabulary.com is honored to serve as the judge. Students, submit an entry and you could be a winner!
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Vocabulary.com to Present at ISTE Conference
On moving vocabulary instruction into the hands of students
Vocabulary.com will present at the Annual Conference & Exposition of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) at the San Antonio Convention Center next week, on moving vocabulary instruction out of the classroom and into the hands of students.
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Dictionary Now Shows Spelling and Pronunciation Variants
Potato, pot-AH-to: It's even easier to call the whole thing off
Today, we add a new dimension to the word-learner's resources in our Dictionary: a "word forms" section of the page where you can see how a word's spelling or pronunciation varies.
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Look for Vocabulary.com lexicographer Ben Zimmer in a School Library Journal/webcast-panel discussion tomorrow, June 18th, at 2 pm on how social media is impacting our view of dictionaries and the development of the English language.
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Vocabulary.com will serve on the judging panel of The New York Times Learning Network's Summer Reading Contest for 2013. We are pleased to join what the Learning Network is calling "a powerhouse panel of...young-adult literary organizations."
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Vocabulary.com executive producer and lexicographer Ben Zimmer and director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis will host a live Twitter discussion with English teachers on Monday night from 7 to 8 p.m. EST at #engchat on "Word Play: Gamifying Vocabulary Instruction."
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Last year, Vocabulary.com made TIME's list of the top 50 websites. Now, TIME senior editor Jeffrey Kluger has reviewed the site in depth, finding that, of online resources to help you learn new words, Vocabulary.com is "a leader in the sector." He judges the site on how well it addresses the questions, "Does this really help you learn? Do the words stick, or do they run out of your head the second you pour them in?"
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