“New Tools Guide” Joyce Valenza and Kristen Swanson have created a “New Tools Guide”highlighting many Web 2.0 applications. You can learn more about at Richard Byrne’s blog. I’m adding it to The Best Collections Of Web 2.0 Tools For Education.
“How to Raise the Status of Teachers” How to Raise the Status of Teachers is the title of a decidedly less-than-impressive collection of responses to that question in The New York Times. However, the piece by Samuel Colbert, Allow More Autonomy, does stand-out. He is the author of a ...
Today’s Collection Of Good School Reform Posts Here are a few very good posts I read over the weekend related to school reform issues: Common Core Confusion – ASCD Edition is by David B. Cohen. I’m adding it to The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards. The Finland ...
More Resources On Arab Protests Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources To See Who Might Fall Next After Mubarak…: The spark that ignited a revolution in the Arab world is a very good slideshow from The Washington Post. Yemen Unrest is an interactive from The ...
More Japan Resources Here are the newest additions to Here are the newest additions to Part Two of my “The Best…” list on the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (you can see Part One here): MSNBC has a very useful interactive map. The Associated Press has an interactive on ...
“The Ballad of Ketinetto 8″ The Ballad of Ketinetto 8 is an online video game that provides lots of language-learning opportunities. Here is its “walkthrough.” And you can read how I use games like this with my students.
This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with ...
