Simple Photographic Dictionary #edtech #assistivetech #spedtech #ESL

Simple Photographic Dictionary is a visual (picture) dictionary appropriate for children learning English.  Thousands of common nouns and simple concepts are illustrated with beautiful photographs.  The photographs are sourced from flickr and are under Creative Commons license.

This site differs from other dictionaries in the following ways.

• Language is simpler and easier to understand than sites like Wikipedia
• Definitions are concise
• Every entry is illustrated with a real-life photo
• All names are given for nouns or concepts that are known by a different name in different parts of the world.

Originally this site started out as a personal project to be a quick reference.  The developer was frustrated with wading through verbose pages on sites like Wikipedia.


This is a great resource for all students who benefit from the use of visuals (especially real-life photographs) and simple language (i.e., early elementary, ESL, special needs).


-  Jeremy

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PhotoPeach

Anne Marie of Talking SMARTBoards & Much More posted a great site called Photo Peach. PhotoPeach is an easy way to create photo slide shows. You can upload photos from your computer, or use photos from you Facebook or Picasa account (Flickr seems to have some issues as of right now). You can then add music to your slideshow. You can pick from pre-selected music, or even borrow songs from Youtube.

It's a easy site to use, and makes a great slideshow. You can also share files, or embed them in other websites (Facebook, blogs, etc...). Here's a short one that I created in about 5 min.

Memphis on PhotoPeach



Patrick

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Shahi - A Visual Dictionary

Larry Ferlazzo at Website of the Day recently posted about a very exciting site for all students, Shahi.   Shahi is a visual dictionary. It provided a definition for the word you type in, but also pictures.  The pictures are pulled from Flickr, and they are high quality. It's really a very simple, easy to use site.  It would be a great resource for students to help them see multiple pictoral examples of the same word.   Check it out!




-  Patrick


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PHOTOsyms

Kate on TLWMSN posted an interesting program today called PHOTOsyms. This is a simple program designed to allow you to create communication boards using digital photos. Kate has several links to places that provide pictograms and such in her post if you need symbols.

I downloaded the program and tried it out. Make sure you take a look at the suggestions that Kate has, they help. I am using a Mac so I didn't need to copy my files to the My PHOTOsyms folder. It worked exactly as advertised, you can put photos into it, adjust their size, then add to a board. The board size is from 2 pictures up to 54 pictures. They can only be created in a grid format. The program is designed to run on Windows and Mac, and is a nice, free alternative for creating communication grids.

Patrick

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