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- Honors Society Member: Kappa Delta Pi (Education) & Sigma Alpha Pi (Leadership) (2018)
- Member: ISTE (2018 - present)
- Certified Soundtrap Educator (2018 - present)
- Certified New Teacher Mentor: New York City Department of Education (2017)
- Master Teacher: PBS LearningMedia (2017)
- Member: New York State Council for Social Studies (2016 - present)
- Founder & Facilitator: Academy for Young Writers' Speech & Debate Squad (2012 - 2015)
- Grant Recipient: Facing History - Race and Membership in American History (2014 - 2015)
- Fellow: Office of the Governor of Texas (1998) & New York City Teaching Fellows - Cohort 18 (2009 - 2011)
- Intervention Specialist: NYC Office of School and Youth Development, Life Space Crisis Intervention (2010)
- Award Winner: The Austin Chronicle Reader's Poll "Best Evening Radio Host of Austin" (2000)
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Honors Society Member: Kappa Delta Pi (Education) & Sigma Alpha Pi (Leadership) (2018)- Member: ISTE (2018 - present)- Certified Soundtrap Educator (2018 - present)- Certified New Teacher Mentor: New York City Department of Education (2017)- Master Teacher: PBS LearningMedia (2017) - Member: New York State Council for Social Studies (2016

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This is my Finalized Multimedia Presentation for my Innovation & Diffusion of Learning Technologies course.

Topic: Big History Project

According to the course final project, here are the requirments:

1. Establish the need for your innovation in your chosen workplace.

2. Provide brief research that supports the need for innovation, both in your chosen workplace, and in the field in general.

3. Provide a brief overview of the development and commercialization of your innovation. This should include a basic timeline of trends or milestones in the adoption of your innovation.

4. Discuss potential obstacles that may be encountered in the adoption or implementation of your innovation, such as costs, resistance by other stakeholders, etc. This could be the material you created on early adopters and laggards.

5. Discuss specific strategies about how these obstacles will be overcome. How will you convince the laggards?

6. Successfully use a persuasive tone, targeting a "board of directors" (real or fictional) and convince them that the proposed innovation will have a significant impact and create positive change in your industry.

7. End with a lasting impact image. This image/message should be designed to leave a lasting impact on your board of directors. This should show that you have assumed the role of "champion" by convincing them that your organization cannot accomplish its goals without using this innovation.

I earned 85.5 points out of 88 potential points. It was scored fairly and I am happy!

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This is my Finalized Multimedia Presentation for my Innovation & Diffusion of Learning Technologies course. Topic: Big History Project According to the course final project, here are the requirments: Establish the need for your innovation in your chosen workplace. Provide brief research that supports the need for innovation, both in your chosen workplace, and in the field in general.

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By Aoife Kimber

Podcasts are now grabbing the attention of 42 million Americans above the age of 12 who listen to podcasts at least on a weekly basis, and monthly listeners are growing up to 24 percent a year. That's four times the number that go to the movies every week according to a 2017 Edison Research survey ( http://www.edisonresearch.com/the-podcast-consumer-2017/)

The future for podcasting revenue is even more exciting, says the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the entity that tracks and reports on digital ad revenue which projects the industry will top $659M by 2020 ( https://www.iab.com/news/us-podcast-ad-revenues-2017/). The digital advertising community clearly views podcasting as an efficient, effective way to reach and engage audiences. In fact, advertising revenue in the podcasting industry increased 86 percent in 2017, to $314M

It's true. As higher-quality listening technologies and more distribution platforms find their way into the market, we have greater access to exactly what we want when we want it. The podcasting industry is aging gracefully, giving us more opportunities to tell a story and connect with people on an intimate level.

-with a minimal barrier to entry.

Making an ace podcast is easier than you'd think, says podcasting expert Meredith Allen. Before you jump in, however, keep in mind that quality recordings take forethought, planning and proper execution. Remember, too, that building an audience takes time.

"The goal is to excite, inspire and inform your listeners with content that is valuable and insightful, and establishes you as a coveted resource for your community of listeners," says Allen, a technology consultant and international presenter for Soundtrap, the online music recording studio that was purchased by Spotify in late 2017.

Soundtrap's digital podcast and online recording studio works across Android, Chromebook, Mac and Windows. The cross-platform technology makes it easier to use than many other recording platforms because it accommodates all devices, integrating across phones, tablets and laptops, allowing recording from virtually any location.

Create a Podcast You'd Want to Listen To

Allen tells me beginners can produce great podcasts if they follow these few simple guidelines:

Decide on format. Decide how you will deliver your podcast. Will you produce it in narrative? Talk-show format? Whatever format you choose, be consistent. And you may want to consider having more than one host. Discussions are generally more interesting with differing opinions and back-and-forth conversation.

Choose your content. Pick a topic that that sparks passion in you-the "thing" you can talk about endlessly with just about anyone. That way, you're on track to interest the community you want to reach. Keep a running list of topics.

Brand your podcast. Pick a name that addresses the topic and is also compelling to your audience.

Select a length. Will you regularly have enough quality content for 15 minutes? 30 minutes? An hour? Be consistent here if you intend to create a series of podcasts. People will come to expect podcasts of equal length every time they listen in.

Invest in quality equipment. Clear audio is critical to creating a podcast that is professional and free of static and outside interference.

Decide on a broadcast schedule. If you're truly serious about developing a podcast series to attract a regular following, stick to a predictable routine. Will you broadcast once a week? Twice a month? Once a month? Your audience will grow to expect your podcast on the promised date, and it's important to provide it when you say you will.

Ears to the Grindstone

Once you've mapped out your planning process, it's time to get busy with production. Allen suggests these steps for beginning podcasters:

Spend some time listening to high-quality podcasts to get a sense of what works and what doesn't.

In pre-production, determine who will be heard in the recording and if you will bring in guests for interviews. If budget permits, consider hiring a professional voice for the intro.

Record short portions of audio at a time, making sure to save often. It sounds backwards, but Allen recommends recording the introduction last. That way, podcasters have a better understanding of the entire podcast and can more easily sum up its theme.

Take the time in post-production to edit and refine the audio. Add music, ambiance, and sound effects, making sure to properly credit the artists that are featured in your podcast. You'll find that these nuances really enhance your production. Export the file as an mp3 or upload to the proper social media channels.

Link your audio file to Twitter, Facebook, your website and blogs, and other online platforms. Share and promote the podcast to the appropriate audiences. Give your listeners the space to engage with each other and with you-through voicemails, emails, tweets and Facebook messaging.

If you take a thoughtful approach to podcasting, this rich medium will help you connect-really connect-with your listeners, deliver content that matters and impact their lives in a positive way. Happy podcasting!

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Shortly after deciding to start my own podcast, it seemed like a logical next step to try it out with my students. Although I've experimented with a variety of other ways of having students create digital material, I never really felt confident introducing audio recording and music making, and wasn't sure how it could fit. Now that I've started, I've quickly realized why using an audio creation platform like Soundtrap to podcast with students should be an essential addition to any classroom. Here's why:

1. The Speaking and Listening Standards:

We know we're supposed to teach kids how to speak and listen, and we know from Jeff Zwiers that academic conversations are a fundamental part of developing strong critical thinking skills. Still, it's challenging to develop meaningful, engaging activities that encourage students to speak and listen to each other. Student podcasting doesn't replace structured group or partner discussions, but it's a highly useful platform for actively teaching and practicing the speaking and listening standards.

2. Amplify Student Voices:

One of the most challenging aspects of trying to promote listening and speaking skills amongst students is the fact that not all students share the same level of comfort speaking in front of the whole class or in groups. Podcasting allows all students the opportunity to share their thoughts, insights, and knowledge and gives everyone in class the opportunity to speak and be heard.

3. Engagement:

Once teachers learn how to audio record with students, it becomes another trick up a teacher's sleeve to engage students and to capture their interest.

4. Community Building:

Podcasting is unique in that it encourages long-form audio recording that is then shared and listened to by others. Podcasting gives students the opportunity to tell their stories, and to discuss topics and issues that are important to them. Hearing each other helps students understand each other.

5. Expose Students to New Forms of Digital Creation:

Using Soundtrap to create a student podcast introduces students to software that could help them discover interests and/or talents in media production, journalism, broadcasting, etc.

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Shortly after deciding to start my own podcast, it seemed like a logical next step to try it out with my students. Although I've experimented with a variety of other ways of having students create digital material, I never really felt confident introducing audio recording and music making, and wasn't sure how it could fit.

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PUSH FOR PODCASTING. Educator Josh Allen (pictured above), a tech integration specialist at 3,000-student Lewis Central schools in Iowa, has broken the standards barrier and helped teachers put students in control of their learning. "Podcasts push students to collaborate in authentic ways and to have academically rigorous conversations around text," he says. In this article, Josh explains why-and how.

The tsunami of smartphones, tablets and electronic devices coupled with Wi-Fi in almost every vehicle makes podcasts a hugely attractive option for our young people today.

Kids seem to gravitate towards these kinds of creative tools, so it's little surprise that podcasting is making a big comeback with our youth and that it's an instant hit in the classroom.

Exactly how many listen?

A 2017 Edison Research survey ( http://www.edisonresearch.com/the-podcast-consumer-2017/) reported that 42 million Americans above the age of 12 listen to podcasts at least on a weekly basis, and monthly listeners are growing up to 24% a year. That's four times the number that go to the movies every week.

I'm the technology integration specialist at Lewis Central Community School District, a 3,000-student district in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Separately, I'm an avid podcaster and have co-hosted the Dads In Ed ( https://dadsined.com/) podcast since 2013. Teachers come to me with content and standards, and I come back to them with the right creative tool.

What creative tools are

Creative ideas are powerful foundations for learning, and we make sure to give kids opportunities to build on these ideas.

Recently, one of our high school English teachers, Molly Petit came to me with an idea to replace the standard two- or three-page written book reflection required in her literature class with a podcast.

We're doing more podcasting now at Lewis Central because they're easy to work with and the students love making them. Podcasts are an excellent tool for meeting the learning standards, and today's audio-recording software makes it easy for them to collaborate across multiple devices and operating systems.

Molly's students were divided into groups according to one of three plays they chose to read: "The Crucible," "Antigone" or "The Importance of Being Earnest."

Together, the students listened to several podcasts before beginning their own. I demoed ways in which they could fade in and fade out, make intro music and add other unique elements, and then the kids created an anchor chart that identified the elements in a strong podcast.

What Molly's students knew

Using the anchor chart as the rubric for the project, Molly's students knew ahead of time exactly what they needed to include in their 10- to- 15-minute presentations to meet the learning standards. It was an audio report, but because they still had to write and communicate, they could meet the language standards.

"This project hit heavily on speaking and listening standards, in particular being able to have a creative conversation, and to build off of each other's ideas, form an argument and have a debate," Molly says.

"As part of their reading literature standard, they also had to cite quotes and use text evidence within their podcast. That was a big part of their rubric."

We're a GSuite for EDU school ( https://edu.google.com/k-12-solutions/g-suite/) and one of the more effective audio-recording technologies I found for classroom podcasting is Soundtrap ( https://www.soundtrap.com/).

It's an online collaborative recording studio that accommodates Android, iOS, Chromebook, Mac and Windows. It's easier to use and the kids can use it across phones, tablets and laptops.

Cross-platform integration is an important feature for our district because so many students bring in their own devices. As an added benefit, they can collaborate on their projects from home-on their own time.

6 tips to get your podcast going

Here are a few tips for getting a podcasting project off the ground:
1. Ask the kids what they're interested in. Participation will be greater if they're part of the selection process. 2. Keep it simple. Look for tools that easily integrate with what you're already doing. If you're a Google Suite for EDU school, find tools that let you sign in with your Google account. Same thing if you're an Office 365 school. 3. Think convenience. Many companies are seeing the value of a single sign‑on where the kids can use the district account instead of creating separate ones. 4. Tap new sources. Almost every state has an International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) affiliate. Attend one of their conferences. Access their resources, which are filled with good tips. 5. Stay open. Ask your neighbors what they're doing, even if it's not the same grade level. I remember, as a fourth-grade teacher, hearing a music teacher talk about teaching notes and chords using a "pizza" method. It became a fantastic way for me to do fractions in my math classroom. 6. Create a rubric. What are the objectives of the podcast? What standards must we meet? Do we need a draft? How can I assess the standards on a worksheet?
A final push for podcasting

Podcasts push students to collaborate in authentic ways and to have academically rigorous conversations around text. They're easy to create and consume, and they give kids a platform for driving their own education.
Josh Allen is a Technology Integration Specialist at Lewis Central Community School District, a 3,000-student district in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He's also co-host of Dads in Ed, a parenting podcast.
This was originally published by EdTech Digest.

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Leaning into Social-Emotional Learning Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

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Dear educators,

There was life before COVID-19, and there will be life after.

We didn't choose to have our schools and colleges closed; our carefully constructed routines halted in their tracks; our field trips, concerts, sporting events, fundraisers and finals all canceled. We didn't expect this and had little warning.

We weren't ready for this either. Or were we?

At this very moment, there are so many questions swirling through our own heads and the education ecosystem across the globe. What impact will this have on student learning, on families, on the economy-now and in the long-term? How will we support students who rely on school for meals or the stability that their classroom provides? How will our students without access to computers or technology continue to learn? What will this do to our school and campus communities? How will this impact our school's funding, our careers?

And then there's the uncertainty around when teachers and students will be allowed to return to school-and what school will be like when we do.

As psychologists, we at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence are concerned about everyone's emotional state. How will students and educators cope with life being turned upside down so quickly?

Right now our media feeds are being inundated with anecdotes of our nation's parents jumping on the homeschooling and digital learning bandwagons. They are at the mercy of the information available to them and the technological tools their children and households may have access to. Districts and colleges across the nation are requiring educators to provide plans and digital resources, despite their varied levels of knowledge about and support for which instructional technologies are most effective for whom, how and under what conditions. All of this is rapidly evolving with a finish line that gets pushed back daily.

This is not a snow day. It's not a holiday break. It's a crisis.

So what can we do to support ourselves and our students in getting through these difficult times? We need to look to social and emotional learning (SEL) for evidence-based practices to help us now and to support us when we eventually return to school.

SEL is for everyone. It's especially critical for students with the greatest needs-the ones who will be severely impacted by the psychosocial and fiscal effects of this pandemic. But it's also for teachers and students in the most well-resourced districts and institutions.

The crisis around COVID-19 is leaving an indelible footprint on the hearts and minds of multiple generations of children and adults-even our youngest ones who are not yet old enough to realize it. The impact and ripple effects across our collective livelihoods is likely too vast to comprehend.

It's scary. But it's not hopeless.

Now is when we need to apply everything we've learned about SEL. Recognizing your emotions and leveraging the science of SEL is more important now than ever. SEL skills are real skills that can support us in managing the roller coaster of emotions we will be having over the coming days and months. For many of us it's dealing with daily uncertainty and new ways of interacting socially.

Be Cognizant of Stress and Its Effects

Fear manifests in our actions, including well-intentioned, research-based mandates to engage in social distancing with our world and all the people in it, including our own families. In times of high stress, negative emotions like fear, anxiety and panic diminish our mental resources and ability to think clearly, make healthy decisions and behave prosocially and productively.

Stress, in moderate doses, is healthy. It's our body's way of responding to events that threaten or challenge us. But chronic stress impairs our ability to function well and impacts the quality of our relationships. Navigating uncontrollable, unpredictable, ambiguous situations like the new coronavirus, in addition to being confronted with many new demands, is challenging and for many of us amounts to chronic stress.

As educators, practicing social distancing during a pandemic while implementing digital learning with your students-in some cases, for the first time-is overwhelming in itself. Then add juggling your own family and their evolving physical, social and emotional demands while bracing for the unknown, and it becomes exhausting, if not impossible.

These intense and seemingly insurmountable demands can make us feel insecure and inadequate. In school, safety is both physical and psychological. Clorox wipes, toilet paper and social distancing are only going to get you so far in the promotion of your safety. We must also ensure psychological safety for ourselves, for our students and for our families. SEL can support us here, too.

The RULER Approach

Briefly, SEL is the teaching of an interrelated set of cognitive, affective and behavioral competencies that underscore our capacity to learn, develop and maintain mutually supportive relationships, and be both physically and psychologically healthy. The field of SEL is replete with programs and approaches, which support schools in embedding five large dimensions into teaching and learning. These include self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision making.

At the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, we use the power of emotions to create a healthier, more equitable, productive and compassionate society, today and for future generations. Our approach to SEL, the RULER Approach, provides tools and resources grounded in the theory of emotional intelligence to promote the psychosocial health and well-being of educators and their students and parents.

RULER is an acronym for the components and process of emotional intelligence, including:

Recognizing emotions in self and others,

Understanding the causes and consequences of emotions,

Labeling emotions accurately,

Expressing emotions appropriately, and

Regulating emotions effectively.

These skills can help us navigate this uncharted territory in our socially-distanced world and do our part to control the imprint it leaves on the mental health and well-being of our students and school communities. You can find additional resources here from our center to specifically support your well-being and manage your anxiety during this sensitive time.

Routine Reminders and Checks

You can make choices every day to support yourself, your students and your families. First, check in with how you are feeling a few times per day. Avoid judging your own and others' emotions. From an emotional intelligence perspective, all emotions are information. Accept them all. They are information to be attended to, not denied.

Be kind to yourself and flexible (as permitted) with your schedule. Look for easy and small ways to bring yourself and your loved ones joy. Make breakfast a different way. Take creative pictures from different angles. Find a new way to organize your closet. Call old friends and family members to check-in. Try a new exercise routine at home.

There also are things you can monitor carefully, including your media consumption. Digital platforms are pretty incredible at enabling us to connect with people in a socially distant world. We have perhaps never been more prepared to practice social distancing as we are today. But keep in mind there are over two decades of research correlating social media usage with loneliness, depression and unhealthy behaviors including addiction. After using technology, ask yourself this question: Is this helping me feel greater well-being and connection, or is it making me feel more isolated? Find the "tech" routine that works for you and your family. And leverage resources and expertise across networks for support.

If the thought of being home for a couple of weeks or months-or returning back to school-is overwhelming, take a meta-moment. Try to imagine your best self-visualize a positive image of yourself, who you want to be and how you want to be seen and experienced by your family and students. And in each of your interactions, whether face-to-face at home or when connecting with others through technology, try to be that person for your students, for your families, for your community.

While the world is turned on its head, we have the opportunity to leverage the power of emotional intelligence to keep our feet on the ground and our minds directed toward building the future that we want for our students and ourselves. We can't control what has happened, but we can control how we respond to what is happening. Give yourself and everyone around you the permission to feel all emotions. It starts and ends with self- and social-compassion. Lean into SEL.
Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., Ed.M., is the Director of Research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and a research scientist at the Child Study Center at Yale University. Follow her on Twitter @drchriscip.
Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. He's also on the board of directors for CASEL and the author of the new book Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive.

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Dear educators, There was life before COVID-19, and there will be life after. We didn't choose to have our schools and colleges closed; our carefully constructed routines halted in their tracks; our field trips, concerts, sporting events, fundraisers and finals all canceled. We didn't expect this and had little warning.

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Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are modes of persuasion used to convince audiences. They are also referred to as the three artistic proofs (Aristotle coined the terms), and are all represented by Greek words.
or the ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author's credibility or character.

An author would use ethos to show to his audience that he is a credible source and is worth listening to. Ethos is the Greek word for "character." The word "ethic" is derived from ethos.

Ethos can be developed by choosing language that is appropriate for the audience and topic (this also means choosing the proper level of vocabulary), making yourself sound fair or unbiased, introducing your expertise, accomplishments or pedigree, and by using correct grammar and syntax.

During public speaking events, typically a speaker will have at least some of his pedigree and accomplishments listed upon introduction by a master of ceremony.

or the emotional appeal, means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions.

Authors use pathos to invoke sympathy from an audience; to make the audience feel what what the author wants them to feel. A common use of pathos would be to draw pity from an audience. Another use of pathos would be to inspire anger from an audience, perhaps in order to prompt action. Pathos is the Greek word for both "suffering" and "experience." The words empathy and pathetic are derived from pathos.

Pathos can be developed by using meaningful language, emotional tone, emotion evoking examples, stories of emotional events, and implied meanings.

or the appeal to logic, means to convince an audience by use of logic or reason.

To use logos would be to cite facts and statistics, historical and literal analogies, and citing certain authorities on a subject. Logos is the Greek word for "word," however the true definition goes beyond that, and can be most closely described as "the word or that by which the inward thought is expressed" and, "the inward thought itself" (). The word "logic" is derived from logos.

Logos can be developed by using advanced, theoretical or abstract language, citing facts (very important), using historical and literal analogies, and by constructing logical arguments.
In order to persuade your audience, proper use of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos is necessary.
Examples of Ethos, Logos and Pathos:

Example of Ethos:

"Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30...

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together."

Stanford Commencement Speech by Steve Jobs. June 12, 2005.

Example of Pathos:

"I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed."

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. August 28th, 1963.

Example of Logos:

"However, although private final demand, output, and employment have indeed been growing for more than a year, the pace of that growth recently appears somewhat less vigorous than we expected. Notably, since stabilizing in mid-2009, real household spending in the United States has grown in the range of 1 to 2 percent at annual rates, a relatively modest pace. Households' caution is understandable. Importantly, the painfully slow recovery in the labor market has restrained growth in labor income, raised uncertainty about job security and prospects, and damped confidence. Also, although consumer credit shows some signs of thawing, responses to our Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices suggest that lending standards to households generally remain tight."

The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke. August 27th, 2010.

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In English grammar, a root is a word or portion of a word from which other words grow, usually through the addition of prefixes and suffixes. By learning root words, you can decipher unfamiliar words, expand your vocabulary, and become a better English speaker.

The Roots of Words

Most words in the English language are based on words from ancient Greek and Latin. The root of the word "vocabulary," for example, is ​ voc, a Latin root meaning "word" or "name." This root also appears in such words as "advocacy," "convocation," "evocative," "vocal," and "vowel." By dissecting words such as these, etymologists can study how a word has evolved over time and tell us about the cultures they came from.

In some cases, root words might be slightly transformed en route to becoming part of words that we're familiar with. In the above example, " vowel" is a word that's clearly related to the voc root and its family of derivative words, and yet the "c" in "voc" is not present. There are several reasons for this sort of pattern, and the changes often depend on what language each individual word comes from, but it serves as a reminder that not every word with the same root will look exactly the same.

Root words are also useful for creating new words, especially in technology and medicine, where new innovations occur frequently. Think of the Greek root word tele, which means "far," and inventions that traverse long distances, such as the telegraph, telephone, and television. The word "technology" itself is a combination of two other Greek root words, techne, meaning "skill" or "art," and logos, or "study."

Because several modern languages share some of the same ancestor languages, it's not entirely uncommon for several related languages to share root words. For instance, the Latin root voc, described above, is shared by several Romance languages. Connections between languages can be found in the shared roots between them, although one always has to be wary of false cognates - that is, words that sound like they have the same roots (and thus related meanings) but actually don't.

Greek Root Words

The table below defines and illustrates 25 of the most common Greek roots.

Latin Root Words

The table below defines and illustrates 25 of the most common Latin roots.

​Understanding the meanings of the common word roots can help us deduce the meanings of new words that we encounter. But be careful: root words can have more than one meaning as well as various shades of meaning. In addition, words that look similar may derive from different roots.

In addition, a handful of root words can stand on their own as whole words in and of themselves. This list includes words such as photo, kinesis, chrome, port, and script. Words like this tend to have related meanings on their own, then can also act as roots for longer, more complex words.

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