Visuwords

Screenshot 1: Home page of Visuwords

Description

A website which focus more on word type relationship with many functions to be used. You can simply key in one word you want to discover and then a mind map or diagram will come out with other words related in the word you keyed in in many other ways.

Steps

1. First open the home page: http://www.visuwords.com/.

2. Then key in the word you want to discover in the word search section.

3. Next you can analyse the diagram appeared.

Screenshot 2: Analyse the diagram and find out word relationships

4. You can further choose any other related words and further discover other related words then.

Advantages

1. Provide detail information at word level with different sort of diagram indications to show different relationship. There are nouns, verbs, adjectives and other type of classes.

2. Diagram is colourful and interesting. This might attract the interest of learner.

3. The diagram can be made bigger or smaller according to user's interest.

4. By pointing the mouse pointer to a word in the diagram, description and information of the word will appear for users to check.

Disadvantages

1. Although the function in this website is fancy and fun-looking, it does not really serve any very useful purpose. I mean if I want to look up word meaning, I would rather open up a dictionary rather than going on the website and try to understand all the different colours and type of diagram indications.

2. This website can be quite hard for colour-blind people because of all the colours shown.

Suggestions to improve

1. It can have a simple dictionary function to ease meaning finding task.