LDT EXPO 2009
WordSift PLUS
http://ldt.stanford.edu/~ckf/wordsiftplus/
WordSiftPLUS is a tool that helps English Language Learners create artifacts that help them compare and contrast what they have learned in academic classes.
WordSiftPLUS is a web-based formative assessment tool customized to help English Language Learners develop and demonstrate comprehension. The user drags images, adds captions and, sorts them on a visual organizer. The goal of WordSiftPLUS is to expose student comprehension of target reading materials and academic content by providing visual means of organizing information and scaffolding academic writing activity. This tool adds the capability to guide comprehension and the reflection process necessary in academic content learning to WordSift, an existing web-based tool for visualizing content.