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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Today’s Oil Spill Links | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Today’s Oil Spill Links | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Today’s Oil Spill Links

Here are today’s additions to The Best Sites To Learn About The Gulf Oil Spill:
The Gulf Oil Effect is an AP interactive.
Hurricane Season 2010: Storms Could Cross Massive Oil Spill is another AP interactive.
Methods That Have Been Tried to Stop the Leaking Oil are a series of excellent graphics from The New York Times.

Interview Of The Month: Mississippi Delta Educator Renee Moore

Each month I interview people in the education world about whom I want to learn more. You can see read those past interviews here.

PostRank’s Tops Posts For May From This Blog

I regularly share my picks for the most useful posts of each month. I also publish a list of the month’s most popular posts, based on the number of times they are “clicked-on.”

“How To Teach Your Teen To Drive”


Another Important Study On Motivation

I’ve written several times about Daniel Pink’s nuanced analysis of extrinsic rewards — that they can work well in motivating mechanical work, but be unsuccessful in encouraging anything requiring higher-order thinking skills.