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Espiral is to provide its users with a free Dixio ForWeb dictionary service

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Dixio ForWeb, the web version of Dixio, will shortly be available on the Asociación Espiral, Educación y Tecnología websites. It is very easy to use and helps users understand what they are reading when they merely double click on a word. Dixio ForWeb will specifically be available at www.cibrerespiral.org, in the training areas of Espiral [...]

Clickedu is to offer Dixio Desktop on its school platform on Cloud

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Clickedu, the school platform on Cloud, will be offering Dixio Desktop as an easy-to-use educational resource for teachers, parents and pupils to look up the meanings of words and phrases as they read documents or websites. Dixio Desktop is a computer program that applies language technology to provide context-specific definitions and translations with a single [...]

Avanzo, a leader in the e-learning field, chooses Dixio as a tool for responding to queries in its courses

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The digital educational sector tends to use interactive and adaptative learning tools that guarantee that students will learn up to the expected level at the lowest possible cost. Avanzo and Dixio have therefore joined forces to facilitate learning by using semantic processes for responding to queries. Dixio Desktop, developed by Semantix, is a computer program [...]

E-readers encourage reading among students

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“E-readers are an attractive source of technology for students and encourage them to read, particularly boys”. This is one of the conclusions reached by a research team from Southern Methodist University, in Dallas (US), after conducting a study with 199 middle-school pupils with reading difficulties. The experiment consisted of providing each student with an e-reader [...]

Dixio Desktop, software recommended for education

Dixio, the smart dictionary created by Semantix, a Spanish firm, has become an outstanding software option on several educational and program distribution platforms. The aspects most highly valued by the sites that recommend this innovative tool are its instant definitions and translations, its contextualization capability, the dictionaries available, its good results and how easy it [...]

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