Hey guys!!
This is a cool tool!
It’s a free version of the “Double Click Definition” that Cambridge University Press sold to the British Council for their website. Now even us little people can have this really useful tool on our websites / Blogs etc. I wonder if it’ll work on Moodle too? It’s bound to be really useful!
I got it from http://www.answers.com/main/answertips.jsp
Give it a try.. if you double click any of the words here on this page, you should (should) get a pop up box with a definition of the words. Cool hey?
Let me know what you think!
Seth 
Hi Seth - this tool is great - thanks for sharing it
Something similar is built into the Safari browser - on Mac OS X you double -click to select a word, then right-click (or Ctrl-click) for the contextual menu & select ‘Look up in Dictionary’. This works the other way round to answers.com - it works on text on any web-page you visit. Answers.com is neater in that it requires fewer user-clicks, but it does rely on the plug-in being installed on the web-site.
Sounds cool Micalet, thanks for the advice. Unf I’m a stubborn old windows user, so I’ve not ever tried out what you’re talking about.(I know I’d like Mac OS, but surely there’s just not as much freeware, is there?)
I do use the spell check feature on Firefox now, which I guess is in the same vein. I personally find it invaluable as a teacher spending a lot of time in various forums. Even though it’s “txt englsh” it’s still so embarrassing to make typos. Using the spel check, this doesn’t happen
Hi Seth,
This really seems a cool tool! I’d love to have it in my Moodle course. Do you think it’s possible?
All the best,
Greetings from Poland
Dorota
Hi There Dorota,
I think it would probably work in your Moodle, it might depend on the type of filters you have switched on in your Moodle. You might want to look at the “Multimedia Filters” section of your Moodle if it doesn’t work straight away.
Basically just stick the html / java code that Answer Tips gives you into any html block on your Moodle course and you should be fine.
You will also be able to decide whether your users get the answer tips function on every page depending on the “Blocks” settings you have on your Moodle. Any page where your new Answer Tips block doesn’t appear won’t have the Answer Tips function. A handy thing to remember if you are doing exams or testing using your site!
Seth