ThomasJPitts' Web Activity

Vocabulary: A list of adverbs, generated by Twitter users.

Link: VCOP adverbs

Vocabulary: Alternative words for 'went', generated by Twitter users.

Link: VCOP 'went'

Vocabulary: Alternative words for 'said', generated by Twitter users.

Link: VCOP 'said'

Great ideas for playing with words here - authors give away some of their secrets!

Link: Channel 4's Writer's Toolkit

The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

Link: Poetry Archive

Start your Maths Lesson with our Starter Of The Day. Boost your mind power with this brain exercise. Give your mental ability a work out with a range of mathematical puzzles, speed tests and creative ideas.

Use the calendar on the home page of the site to see today's starter. Designed for a range of ages, not all the starters are suitable for everyone - but most are workable with a few tweaks.

Link: Transum's Maths Starter Of The Day

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

Examples:

Link: Wordle.net

Recently I updated the site's software to Movable Type version 5, which, by the way, is great. However, it contains some new features - such as in text link generation and a suggestion of potential tags you might want to use. I found this a very useful addition as I always struggle to think of tags. I decided to retrospecitvely go back through each entry and alter the tags and add in links. To every post. All 258 of them. It took a few days, but it's done now and the site should have much easier to find content.

Anyway, expect the tag cloud to much more reflective of the site's content now thanks to Zemanta.

It was recently announced that to save money, the BBC are thinking of closing 6Music and the Asian network radio strations.

I am a huge fan of 6Music - I have never listened to the Asian network - and would be most upset were it to not be around anymore.

I can't write about how to help save it any better than other people already have elsewhere, so this is just a series of links. If you are interested, please make sure you follow the advice given in the following pages.

• James Hunt's blog.
• Neil Hannon
• Save 6Music Facebook Group
• Dan Bull's Open Letter (Song) To The BBC

I've spent a little time this weekend updating my Google Calendar and my phone's calendar. Half way through I realised I could probably get them synchronised and only have to do one. And I could. Which is fabulous. It's now set up to work both ways, one updates the other whenever it's altered. If only my paper based diary was so simple to keep sorted...

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