CREATE SOCIAL PHRASEBOOKS with Phraseum
Phraseum is a browser-based tool. Activate it from your browser toolbar. Create a free account and then drag the "Clipping button" bookmark to your favorites bar on your browser.
If you want to include specific words or phrases from a WORD document or PDF, you can just type in the words or phrases you want to add to your phrasebooks. If you save them from the web, Phraseum also stores a link back to the original source. This enables you to go back and see how the word/phrase is used in context.
Phraseum allows you to follow people. This is useful in class situations as you can easily monitor students' work and use the comments feature to help support your students.
Takeaways
Phraseum
- is easy to use from the browser tool bar.
- is social (share and compare phrasebooks).
- makes it easy for you/students to go back to the original source of a phrase.
- encourages thinking about words within lexical chunks.
- is free!