Elumintate

I've decided that I will use elluminate in my classroom, and here's what for:

I know that about 110% of students are put off by vocabulary and have a hard time memorizing it for some reason. About 20% of this don't have too much trouble, actually, so the real result is about 90%. But bear with me:

Instead of simply having my students memorize vocabulary on their own, or else hammering it into their brains with multiple drills, I would use Elluminate to implement a pre-vocab activity.

I would either find or create images which represent each of the vocabulary words. For nouns this is obviously easier. For verbs and adjectives, the images would either show the action of the verb or the description of the adjective. Students would then interact with the images to think out the meanings of each one. Their ultimate task would be to come up with a few possible definitions for each image. We could then move into the vocabulary to collectively determine if the definitions they've chosen appropriately fit the word.