Scratch

Though I am still learning what Scratch is completely, (I'm in the process of downloading it now so that I can try it out for myself) I found one on the Scratched site that looks interesting and useful for an english classroom. It's called a wikiScratch Picture Dictionary. While it is still an idea in progress, it gave me the idea to use it in the classroom for vocabulary words. Each student would have a word of their own and could contribute to a final dictionary that would include all of the words. Each page would contain the word spelled correctly, a picture, and perhaps the phoenetic spelling and a sentence containing the word. Not only would you have a final dictionary at the end of each unit, you could put all of the units together at the end to incorporate all of the vocabulary words for the year.