I came across an interesting site which teaches vocabulary and helps feed the starving.   The site is called freerice.com.  For every word you define correctly you gain 10 grains of rice which will be donated to the UN World Food program.   The words vary in difficulty.  I tried it out myself, and actually got stumped on a few.   Great little exercise for Language Arts class.

As many of you know there are many tools now available for students and teachers to assist them in citing sources and creating bibliography pages.  You may not know that Office 2007 has a tab on the top toolbar called “references” which assists you in creating citations.   Formats include APA, Chicago, and MLA.   I’ve used a few times myself, and I have to admit it beats using the writers reference book.

There are also some web-based tools available as well.   Many of you may be familiar with The Citation Machine but I recently was introduced to bibme.   Similar to citation machine but more user friendly, in my opinion.

Feel free to check them out and post your comments.  Also, feel free to post other useful sites as well.

Enjoy