Human Brain Cloud: Play

Human Brain Cloud: Play

This is very addicting. I assume this will be the case for anyone interested in language. It's also a fascinating project. All you do is enter the first thing that comes to your mind when you see a word/phrase. The connections that brings to light are very interesting.

I wonder it this data would be made available for teaching language. Just think. The greatest number of responses would likely signal words/phrases that should be taught together. This is a new form of corpora analysis.

Give it a try.

Dan

Geosense: an online world geography game

This game was simply addictive. You can play alone or with another player online.

I don't have a lot of ideas for this, but one obvious one would be with cities and countries.

I'd love to hear any ideas you have (if you can stop playing the game :)

Mr. Picassohead

Thanks for Elizabeth Hanson-Smith for bringing this to my attention (though there's no link on her post :)

Similar to the sketch program that I blogged about the other day, Mr. PicassoHead is a Flash interface that enables you to create a Picasso-esque picture in minutes. Not only is it fun, but this can be used with students in many ways: discussions on art/artists, creating characters for stories, or even an interesting twist on topics of bodyparts.

This one should be a little easier to save your finished product than the sketch application. All you have to do is email the finished product to yourself. However, I chose that option but haven't received my email yet (couple hours later).