Technolgy for Vocabulary
Adding Visual Interest - Creating Connections
VisuWords
Show relationships to other words. Great for finding connections and relationships/differences
Lexipedia
Similar to VisuWords, but with a special link for "fuzzynyms", which are almost synonyms, but would change the meaning of the sentence if used in place of the word. http://www.lexipedia.com/
Lingro
An amazing tool that turns all the words in any website or digital text into a clickable dictionary and translates text into 12 different languages. http://lingro.com/
Snappy Words
An online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. http://www.snappywords.com/
FlashCard Stash
Teachers can create word banks and flashcards and share with students. http://flashcardstash.com/teachers/new
More on Word/Flashcard Stash: http://d97cooltools.blogspot.com/2011/07/wordstash-is-online-vocabulary-building.html
Tag Galaxy
So..maybe not so good for teaching vocabulary - but it makes amazing word pictures. http://taggalaxy.de/
Cram.com
Integrates with drive - make your own flash cards:
StudyBlue
Phone App for making study cards:
Flashcard Machine
Because it's all about preference...here is one more.