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=== Creating resources using educational tools - Vocabulary tools and digital stories (Languages) ===

=== Creating resources using educational tools - Vocabulary tools and digital stories (Languages) ===

Kanagram is a very simple FOSS application for strengthening language skills (vocabulary). The tool allows you to configure word lists for any given category. You can provide a hint for each word also. For instance you could define a category - 'Rivers of Telangana' and give Godavari, Krishna, Palleru, Dindi, Bhima as the words for this category. For each word you can give a hint or clue, for e.g. 'second longest river in India' for Godavari. When you 'play' Kanagram, you will select a category. If you select 'Rivers of Telangana' , you will get jumbled words, one at a time, and you need to guess the word. This word thus builds the vocabulary of students in an enjoyable manner. Unjumbling the word is a creative exercise, making students familiar with anagrams. Later making anagrams of any word can itself be a useful linguistic activity.  

Kanagram is a very simple FOSS application for strengthening language skills (vocabulary). The tool allows you to configure word lists for any given category. You can provide a hint for each word also. For instance you could define a category - 'Rivers of Karnataka' and give Tunga, Bhadra, Netravati, Krishna, Kaveri, Bhima as the words for this category. For each word you can give a hint or clue, for e.g. 'Source in Kodagu district' for Kaveri. When you 'play' Kanagram, you will select a category. If you select 'Rivers of Karnataka', you will get jumbled words, one at a time, and you need to guess the word. This word thus builds the vocabulary of students in an enjoyable manner. 'Unjumbling' the word is a creative exercise, making students familiar with anagrams. Later making anagrams of any word can itself be a useful linguistic activity.  

Apart from testing students vocabulary, you can also support student language skills by encouraging them to build word lists for different categories and provide meaningful hints/clues. (The clues need not only be literal clues, it can be cryptic also, like in crosswords). For instance, you could set the clue as 'Pandava' for Bhima River. This activity can be a base for students to explore crosswords, play the Scrabble game, which involves students identifying words from the letters they have chosen. Solving crosswords is a good language learning activity.

Apart from testing students vocabulary, you can also support student language skills by encouraging them to build word lists for different categories and provide meaningful hints/clues. (The clues need not only be literal clues, it can be cryptic also, like in crosswords). For instance, you could set the clue as 'Pandava' for Bhima River. This activity can be a base for students to explore crosswords (with cryptic clues), play the '[[wikipedia:Scrabble|Scrabble]]' game, which involves students identifying words from the letters they have chosen. Solving crosswords is a good language learning activity.

Kanagram allows word lists to be setup in other languages also. So you can set simple word lists in Telugu as well. (Currently Kanagram allows only simple Telugu words, complex/compound letters are not supported).

Kanagram allows word lists to be setup in other languages also. So you can set simple word lists in Kannada as well. (Currently Kanagram allows only simple Telugu words, complex/compound letters are not supported).

[http://www.anagramator.com/ Anagram maker], is a website resource which generates anagrams for any word you type in.  

[http://www.anagramator.com/ Anagram maker], is a website resource which generates anagrams for any word you type in.