10 Ways to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary

I chose to read the article eVoc Strategies:  10 Ways  to Use Technology to Build Vocabulary by Dalton and Grisham because from my experiences when working with students who are deaf is that vocabulary is something they struggle with and technology is something they love to use to build upon their knowledge.  As the article states, it is crucial to understand ideas to understand the text.  When teaching vocabulary, the teacher must remember to focus on even the smallest parts of language and provide multiple ways for teaching by using context clues and important words to know and remember.  With any student I feel that if they are provided with an array of reading materials they will find something they enjoy and will learn that reading can be fun and beneficial for they education.  Teachers can use graphic organizers, visual displays, word clouds, digital vocabulary field trips, comparisons, online vocabulary games (crossword puzzles, picture-word matches, and word scrambles), audiotapes, captions, photo essays, podcasts, PowerPoints, Visual Thesaurus websites, e-books, visual dictionaries, picture dictionaries, translation tools, book clubs, blogs, text-to-speesch tools, and vocabulary learning combined with social service.
Some websites available for these tools are:
www.wordle.net
www.wordsift.com
trackstar.4teachers.org
www.vocabulary.co.il
www.vocabulary.com
www.visualthesaurus.com
dictionary.reference.com/studenthandbook
www.thefreedictionary.com
www.wordcentral.com
kids.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/english
translate.google.com
kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids
www.naturalreaders.com
www.freerice.com


Did anyone ever use these technology tools while in school?  I feel like most of these tools can be used throughout many grades, as I used Free Rice when I was in high school.