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WORDS HAVE POWER!

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

Another Web tool used in the movie is Digital Booktalk.Gunter and Kenny (2008) created Digital Booktalk to help engage media-centric students with reading. Digital Booktalk is a web portal that used video trailers and associated activities in an attempt to effectively match potential readers. Initial pilot studies tested out these assumptions and determined that these types of mediated interventions can be successful in motivating students to read and complete books and increase personal understanding of the relevance of reading and writing in the lives of those who otherwise demonstrate an aversion to text-based media (Gunter and Kenny, 2008). Website: http://digitalbooktalk.com

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