Spelling City!

I linked to this before... or I thought I had, but I can't find it. However, the search from Google says I never said "spelling" in 197 posts and I know that's not true (I found "spelling" all by myself.) I know I emailed the link to friends of mine and it revived my ongoing desire to Put Spelling Practice OnLine.

Now I'm going to *really* link to it. That is to say, I'll be writing articles to be published there, and rather hoping that some of the effective ways of practicing spelling (per "six ways to practice spelling" that's also over at LD OnLine will find their way out to more folks.

Spelling City is a fun site where you can plug in your spelling words and pretty much every word in the dictionary is already in the database with a nice professional voice saying it, its spelling for the "teach me," and a sentence. It's got a growing menu of activities... some of the occasional glitches that go with the territory of web 2.0, but all kinds of potential. Oh, and it's free :) The company also does time4learning.com, an online curriculum that really does get past putting a textbook online and lives up to some of the fun and friendly interactive potential that the web provides.

And I"m a firm believer that with writing, no, it's not good enough "as long as you understand." They've fixed it, but today's New York Times web page had a headline about "low-payed" jobs. Not only is paid misspelled, but dear folks, nobody pays the *job* anything. People get paid. Yes, with a bit of adjustment I can figure out what it probably means, but that isn't always true.

Now, I am also confident that there's some way in "Web 2.0" to feed this onto my site... time to explore a little... ah, well, Google tells me can't be done on a "private of FTP based site." I assume they mean "or," and I think that this one's on my site so it's private. Did I mention that spelling problems can cause confusion?