I looked at a few different web 2.0 tools reviewed by classmates, but I really like the one Jamin found - the "Visual Thesaurus" and text visualization through WordSift. Here is my comment to her post.
"Jamin, I also work with second language learners (mainly Spanish speakers) and this visual thesaurus seems like a great tool. Sometimes it is very hard for students to grasp certain words and being able to link them to other words they already know will help them reinforce new words. It also seems like it would help a lot to teach parts of speech. My students seem to have a lot of difficulty learning the difference forms of a particular word and their relation to each other. I like how this tool allows you to look at different parts of speech and turn them on or off depending on what kind of word you are looking for. With thesauruses so common in word processing programs, kids get used to clicking on words without realizing the the subtle differences between them and the power of word choice. I love words and hopefully this tool will help students to learn to love them too."
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