A Very Cool Tool

Darren Kuropatwa wrote about a very cool tool called Answer Tips. The tool allows you to double click on any word on this blog and see a definition or other useful information about it. Darren heard about the tool from a rather interesting site called Think Again.

I think it would be very interesting to have students write an essy and then select key words about which they could link to definitions and other information. (There's no reason that Answers.com would have to provide the information. Students could write the information on the target page.) This would be a way for students to see that the conversation does not end after just one paper. There's be no reason that students could not link to words included in the first link and so on. Indeed, the conversation is never ending.


This past month I developed a sample student product that works somewhat similarly to this.