The last few months have see some big changes here at Wordia HQ, and in Wordia's technical and pedagogical direction in general - and we need your input!

Wordia started life as living, breathing 'video dictionary' where members of the public were encouraged to explore the connotation of a word through video, next to the textual definition (the denotation). Educators contacted us in their dozens, expressing just how impactful video was in the classroom and how Wordia was helping students to engage with subject vocabulary and Key Words in an innovative new way.

We're excited to announce that multiplayer technology has arrived here at Wordia.com! It's been a good few months in development, and we'd like to know what you think!

Wordia offers playful, word-based multiplayer games to support our more focused learning games and educator-created games.

We're excited by the opportunity for students to (safely and securely) challenge other students. Something that really taps into the spelling bee competition mentality.

But what do you think? We'd love your feedback: info@wordia.com

This week saw the 2000th vocabulary game created since we first introduced Game Builder a couple of months ago. A big thanks to every teacher and student who has helped contribute to our ongoing aim of raising literacy in schools!

But more rewarding than any number is that students, at different ages, are using this feature as a digital learning resource that goes beyond the limitations of a subject textbook - and enables them to explore vocabulary in an exciting new way.

We've just created a brand new learning based game, called 'Quiz-ly Bears' and would love to hear your thoughts on our efforts and energies!

This decision came in response to an overwhelming demand from educators for a game that allows them to add their own questions and answers. By making 'Quiz-ly Bears' a multiple-choice learning game, educators have complete control over which answers are presented to their students.

We've spent the last few weeks testing the game in schools around the Hackney and Old Street areas of London, and found some interesting results:

It's been an exciting week here at Wordia, with over 300 new schools signing up to build learning games (and win fabulous Wordia student t-shirts!).

Today's game has been created by Ana Lara from IES Comercio - a Secondary school from the Rioja district in Spain. Congratulations Ana and her class!

- Ana's game features 'computing verbs'... Why not challenge your class with it - or better yet, build a game yourself!

Good luck!

Tired, exhausted - but happy! The Wordia team are just back from a long afternoon of testing our new avatar technology at our fantastic partner school, Millfields Community School (A very big thank you, Janet!)

We've finally found the time to develop avatar technology, so students can customise their own learning experience within Wordia. We're very happy to report that it was a big success, with 15 great STEM students kicking the tyres on our developments and ideas. ("More robots, please"!)

As you may know, here at Wordia HQ our goal is to build the world’s best educator vocabulary website - a resource that helps educators teach subject vocabulary through games-based learning & interactive video. But to achieve this - we need your help!

We're running a Competition where, if you build a learning game using Wordia, we'll add your game to our T-Shirt competition!

It's simple to enter, just click on the 'Game Builder' button on the Home Page and then fill-out a few simple steps to create a learning game featuring the subject vocabulary you need to teach!

Welcome to the Soft Launch of the new look Wordia.com.

What do you think?

We hope you like what we've built - and our modern interpretation of Dr. Johnson & Boswell, the world famous wordsmith and biographer! (A new literacy champion, and hero side-kick, for the modern classroom).

So what's the story?

We've spent the last eight months listening to your feedback, and building Wordia as a fantastic free classroom resource to engage students with literacy and subject vocabulary (using the familiar medium of video + learning games).

Quite a grand aspiration that – our subject title… But something interesting is afoot at Wordia HQ.

Over the last two years, you have really taken to Wordia as a simple, innovative way to bring worlds alive (language & subject vocabulary).

Nowhere more so than in the classroom, where Wordia is used by thousands of teachers everyday as a great Quick Starter resource. Video vocab is a neat way to start the lesson!

As the Christmas wind-down begins and the snow starts to settle outside, what better way to occupy five minutes of your time, than challenging some of the UK’s best wordsmiths in our new crossword game!

As regular Wordia-word-watchers will know, we’ve developed a crossword format that allows us to integrate video with word clues… We’re really excited about this, as it means that we can start creating educational games by mapping subject vocabulary from the Key Stage – to a fun, familiar game format.