Yes, kinda. Actually, it began as a vocabulary-learner's dictionary that I published way back in 2002. I'm now upgrading it and reformatting it, and uploading the entire content onto Steemit, in digestable posts.
It will take a few more months to upload it all, but I'm trying to speed up my reformatting work and the entire process.
Once the entire Vocab-ability reference guide is uploaded on this platform, I'm planning daily vocab exercises. I hope those will provide even further help to ESL students and even native English speakers who wish to improve their knowledge of English vocabulary.
Whether it's "brilliant" or not is up to the readers / students to decide.
For me, it's simply a labor of love.
I think you should go even more in depth and do less per post with more commentary - or do themes aside from alphabetic along with it. Keep up with the full chapters for sure!!!! - but also do more frequent and shorter posts to get people using it. We all need better vocab skills, and that is no joke. I really love this!
Yes, I intend to do shorter posts after uploading this entire series. In fact, I had started out with daily posts of each entry, but soon decided to abandon that strategy, and first upload the entire series. (Not sure if this way is more effective, but believe that it might be the best way.)
Anyway, I did some scheduling calculations today, and realized I have over a years worth of Vocab-ability and subsequent material to upload. So, I'm gonna try to speed it up a bit.
Hope you find it all interesting and educational. :-)
A year! lol. Just turn into two people :)
This is just amazing. You have all kinds of directions this can go. Just keep posting in any format! The deeper detail might be better when the loyal learners show up as I am certain they will soon flood in.
I'm in SE Asia and connected to quite a few people here that I think will really like these posts. I promise you I am on this. I know my friends will really appreciate the help as they ask me for help with their phrasing and word choice at times. This is unbelievebly helpful.
When you write "in depth" and then "deeper detail," I'm not clear on what you mean. Do you mean to say that I should explain the etymology? Or more examples?
The one thing I'd like to do after concluding this series is a series with daily exercises. Simple choose-the-correct-word for each sentence, but that could be quite effective for ESL students.
Exercises would be awesome. I think you would want to get the engaged people here to lead you with their questions. I think you have enough of the etymology and want to got practical. "How to use this word in a blog post."
The idea that came to my mind, was just expanding on the concepts in any way. Examples, conversations, quirks. For example, an animal can be juvenile, but not junior.
Maybe pronunciation links, or related short videos. "Juvenile Whale Sharks" or anything you found.
I looked through a few of your replies to people and you sure have a knack for this. I know that so many people are shy about their English when they really do not need to be. It's nice to see you drawing them out.
Maybe try short series of 3-5 posts on a theme and see what sticks. This way you don't have too much invested. But I think you must have an unlimited amount of this material behind the scenes.
Getting back to steemiteducation:
This is both a tag and a steemer. People post to the tag and the lucky winners of the day get resteemed and get the big bucks after that. It's a good idea to go into the feed and see what got resteemed and see how you can fit in. Also - you need to resteem their announcement post before your post goes out for max visibility to them.
If you use the tag and don't get resteemed - you still get the visibility as others do search the tag, especially manual curators.
steemiteducation also suggests joining them on discord for better chance to be resteemed, but I don' chat so I can't really help there. If you do - it's to your benefit to get in with them.
There is another tag - steemstem that you might be able to post to if you can group some of this info into STEM themes. Huge money goes to some of those posts. I'm not a STEM person, so I have not looked at that too hard. But I think you could fit if you want to go that direction.
Thanks for the great, informative reply. I was a bit confused about the identity of SteemEducation, so thanks too for clarifying that. It definitely seems like I should look into it and take advantage of it. I'll also check out SteemStem.
As for discord, I'm also not a chat person. A bit too "millenial" for me, and the few times I went on, I did not find it very helpful. Maybe it is for others, but I'm content to communicate by the main Steemit channel.
p.s. Just minutes ago, my upvote reached $2.00! Woohoo! In celebration, I'm passing that amount on to the first Steemian worthy of it. In gratitude and in hope of further success for all.
WooHoo! I cannot thank you enough. I am not in SE Asia throwing money around - I am here because it is cheap. And in this crazy time - that $2 might be worth enough to pay the rent next month.
And in return you can have my 40% SEVEN CENTS! I feel so impressed with myself, but my power is weak since I'm just voting like crazy today.
Definitely lurk in those tags and make friends. You will see quite a number of people getting good regular payouts. Why I have not gotten all my notes and started posting things like "Intro to Macro Economics" is a mystery. I was teaching at the Master's Level and must have 50 courses on my various drives.
I'm glad to meet another non-chatter. It kills me that so many are in there talking away when they should be out here commenting!
Wow thats fantastic, when you are done. Please i will like to download it buddy.