HyperWords - Great Firefox Extension for Educators!
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Hyperwords is Firefox extension that allows you to highlight any words on the internet and perform various tasks with them. Some of them are useful on a personal productivity level, but a lot of them are great for educators.
Useful Features for Education (for Teachers and Students!):
Search - Traditional search engines AND an academic search sub menu with Academic Live, CiteSeer, Google Scholar, and NSF Publications. Highlight a word/idea, select one of these options and a search screen will open in another window using that word/idea.
A HUGE Reference sub menu including biggies like Wikipedia (pictured at right). Again, highlight a word/idea and then select your reference source.
A Translation menu that includes capabilities to translate from and to 13 different languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Arabic). Highlight a word or even an entire page and translate it INSTANTLY on the page into that language. WOW!
Here is a great introduction video that shows some of the features in action.
How else might you be able to use this? Activate it in your Firefox browser here.
Joshua
Thanks a million, bro. I recently lost my hard drive, and I forgot what this extension was called. Because of your contribution here, I was able to re download and now I’m up and running again. I was really about to get mad too. I kept saying, “I’m never gonna find it! I’m never gonna find it!”
Thanks a lot. The internet is useful because people like you upload random stuff like this. No matter what the topic, posting anything might just help somebody somewhere. Your post here really helped me. If there had just been one or two people that blogged about Hyperwords I might have never found it. But because I first learned about it through a blog, I thought: “Surly someone else has bogged it too. It took me about 17 or 18 minutes, but then I found this blog.
A friend of mine never wants to put anything up that someone else has written about. Well, that’s why he has no readers. No one knows he exists. This is why repetitive topics are helpful! This goes for everyone. Write! Write about anything. Even if it’s played out bigger than hell. You might just help someone, somewhere, find just what they needed.
Apr 16th, 2008 3:01 am