http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL The VGL is a free website for online English learning: Study English grammar with interactive exercises, quizzes, tests, games, and other online activities and work sheets. Search for a grammar activity or explanation by grammar point, difficulty level and/or type of activity. Sign up to track your study progress. en-us Sat, 19 May 2012 01:09:00 -0400 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:55:30 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This update fixed some minor bugs in the teachers' assignment view (where an error would appear on the page when a new assignment was created) and search (ordering was not consistent by level/difficulty) and greatly improved the speed of loading the RSS New Activities feed. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:55:30 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/14 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGLTest/index.php/assignment/ The assignments tool has been updated, to make student progress clearer and easier for teachers to see at a glance, and to simplify/clarify the assignment information shown to students. If you find any problems with the assignments or have suggestions or future feature requests, please use the Report Bug link to let us know! Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:27:23 -0400 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/13 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL/index.php/search/advanced.html The "Edit Activity" function is now available in VGL version 2. Any VGL teachers can now edit activities or grammar websites to correct or improve how they're categorized in the VGL database. To edit an activity, start from the Advanced Search: in the search results, an "Edit This Activity" link appears next to each activity. (If you don't have a VGL teacher login, sign up for a free account!) Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:31:32 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/12 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL/index.php/activity.html The "Add Activity" function is now available in VGL version 2. Any VGL teachers can add new activities or new grammar websites to the VGL database while signed in to their VGL teacher account. (If you don't have a VGL teacher login, sign up for a free account!) Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:58:12 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/11 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL We will be moving to VGL version 2 (this version) as of February 1, 2011. If you're already using this version of the VGL, it won't be a major change for you, but you will see more features and more updates. Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:47:21 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/1 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL/index.php/ratings/2318 Rate activities to show which ones you like, and which ones you don't like. While you're using an activity, click on the face Very Happy Happy Indifferent Not Happy Very Sad that shows what you think about it. Look for the ratings in your search results. Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:49:07 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/2 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL/index.php/search.html A new, automatic link checking tools was added, so that link checking will get done more regularly and more easily. The result will be fewer broken links in the VGL and broken links getting fixed more quickly. (If you find a broken link in the VGL, please use the Report Problem tool to flag it and prevent it from showing in student searches.) Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:50:01 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/3 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL All grammar activity and website links in VGL database were checked; over 150 potential broken links identified, corrected or blocked. Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:01:35 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/4 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL All grammar activity and website links in VGL database were checked; 247 potential broken links identified. 28 were found to be O.K.; 41 broken links were corrected; 178 were flagged for further investigation, but will not appear in student searches until updated. With this update of our database, we said good bye to all of the GeoCities sites (Yahoo's free web hosting service which was shut down this fall)--the end of an era. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:01:35 -0500 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/5 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News http://www.spunkyenglish.com/VGL All grammar activity and website links in VGL database were checked; 91 broken links found. 8 broken links were corrected; 83 were flagged for further investigation, but will not appear in student searches until updated. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:04:08 -0400 spunkyenglish.com/VGL/News/6 Virtual Grammar Lab Updates and News