Technology Tip Number 55
Leveraging Discipline Based Articulation

(Please note that these glossaries have been compiled from a parent/tax payer’s perspective)

From School Wise Press in California: http://www.schoolwisepress.com/smart/dict/dict.html

Texas Education Consumers Association:  http://www.nychold.com/hirsch-termin.html

IllinoisLoop.org has a list of additional resources that can help parents "learn the lingo" of education: http://www.illinoisloop.org/lingo.html

The practical teachers in the Bering Strait School District in Alaska offer this Eduspeak Jargon Generator on their wiki to help in the preparation of "reports, grant applications, program evaluations and other required documents."

And in case you were wondering, education is not the only field that you can find "jargon generators" for.  Try out some of these:

For Library Computer Networks:
http://www.unc.edu/~macmw/jargon.html

Buzz Word Generators:
http://www.robietherobot.com/buzzword.htm
http://www.1728.com/buzzword.htm

A Custom Slogan Generators:
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=School
http://www.sloganizer.net/en/

And for politicians, make your own campaign signs here:
http://www.frantic.org/makesign.html

PRACTICE ACTIVITY:  Try one of the online jargon generators listed above.  Could you find a practical application for any of these?

TO KEEP ON LEARNING:  To learn more try searching the internet for:

Jargon Generators
Free Online Generators
Office Jargon

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