COD - 6/21/2012 - Spellosaur [Spelling]

Spellosaur, an iOS app, touts itself as a fun and effective way for kids to learn their spelling words.

Spellosaur is designed to makes learning words more fun with a set of games to help progressively learn each spelling - listen and choose the correct word, complete the word by adding the missing letters, plus re-arrange the letters to make the word.

With Spellosaur, you enter the words the student wants to learn - this can be a weekly spelling list, or just a set of words that have been troublesome to learn. Select from two voices, English and US English, or record your own pronunciation if you wish.

The learner can also get quizzed on a word list just like at school - listen to the word, then spell it, then the app will report which words were spelled correctly and incorrectly at the end of the quiz.

Spellosaur is free in the iTunes App Store. You have the option to upgrade to the premium version of the app so you can:

• Have multiple users, each with their own word list.
• Have as many words as you like in the list you are learning.
• Save your words for future reference and testing.

Spellosaur requires iOS 5.0 or later.

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Catch of the Day - SpellBee.org - 9 Oct 09

The current catch-of-the-day is Spellbee.org


SpellBee.org is a new kind of spelling activity. Each time a student plays, she will be able to choose a partner and play a word game with him.

SpellBee.org is totally free, web-based, and runs in most modern browsers that have Java installed and enabled.

SpellBee.org Screenshot

Teachers can register as SpellBee teachers who will be provided with everything they need to get their classes involved, and will be able to monitor the progress of each of their students. See the PDF flyer for teachers.

Currently the available vocabulary includes approximately 3,000 words of varying difficulties. According to the developers, in the future, teachers may be able to customize SpellBee with a specific list of words.

SpellBee.org Screenshot

SpellBee.org does not collect the names and email addresses of children; they choose a nickname for themselves.There is no chat or email contact through the site. Teachers and parents will be able to request information about a student's record if a child provides her teacher's nickname or her parents' email address.

Link to the SpellBee.org FAQ.

SpellBee.org is a project of the DEMO laboratory at Brandeis University, directed by Professor Jordan Pollack. Spellbee.org was written by DEMO lab member Ari Bader-Natal.

Catch of the Day - ReadingLogs.com - 7 Oct 09

ReadingLogs.com is the fresh catch of this day

ReadingLogs.com gives 5 to 12 year old students a better way to track reading, create vocabulary cards and practice spelling. ReadingLogs.com hopes to encourage reading and make learning a more pleasant experience.

Thanks to the original ideas of two elementary school students who were tired of losing their reading logs, ReadingLogs.com is now a 21st century learning environment supported by tools like a listen and spell practice system, built in access to a dictionary, and an electronic reading log. It was designed and developed with the insights and feedback of those students in mind.

The Listen & Spell practice system speaks the words in a spelling list, so that students can listen, spell the words, and check their spelling. Students can also print spelling lists and other study material.

Learning material such as reading, spelling, and vocabulary work can be uploaded to ReadingLogs.com by teachers and is accessible online by the students in their classes.