TUTORIALS > Vocabulary Review

You can easily create a smart little vocabulary list on you classroom webpage. Students can click on the vocabulary word in the target language and a visual will come up as a pop-up window.

Students will be able to self- check if they knew the meaning of the vocabulary word by draggin their mouse over the empty cell next to the word.

Here is how you do it:
  1. Create a vocabulary list to be placed on your website
  2. Find and upload corresponding clipart for your vocabulary words to your hosting server. Note the address where illustrations are located. Ex. http://www.langwitches.org/images/clipart/run.gif
  3. On your webpage, insert a 2 column table.

       
       

    Either create a border for the table and/or enter a value for the cell spacing or
    Give the second colums a different cell background.

    vocabulary 1
    		 
    vocabulary 2
    		 

  4. Write your vocabulary words in the first column and the corresponding translation in the second column.

    corre
    run
    perro
    dog

  5. Time to insert a Pop-Up Window Javascript. You can google for all different kinds of pop-up javascripts online. One of the script generators, that you just have to copy and paste into your website code is Popup Window Maker . Just enter the URL address of where your clipart is located (Ex. http://www.langwitches.org/images/clipart/run.gif ) click on generate code and copy the code into your HTML code.

  6. "Magic Invisible Words"
    To have the corresponding translations "magically" appear, when the visitor drags their mouse over the second column cell, just hightlight the word and change its font color to match the cell background color.

    corre
    run
    perro
    dog

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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