The Best Photos — In The World?
Smithsonian Magazine just announced the fifty finalists in their annual photo competition. You can see the finalists, and the winners from their previous nine years, here. You can also see a related photo gallery created by the Boston Globe’s Big … Continue reading →
Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
I’ve recently started a regular feature where I share a few posts from around the Web related to ESL or EFL that have caught my attention: Reuters Video: Aesop’s fable brought to life by clever crows is a video and … Continue reading →
Do You Advocate For English Language Learners?
A colleague of mine, Diane Staehr Fenner, is working on a project related to advocacy for ELs. She is interested in hearing from teachers and administrators across the country who advocate for their school’s English learners so that the students … Continue reading →
Can An Educator’s Clothes Affect How He/She Teaches?
I’ve previously posted on the topic of teacher’s attire (see A Question On Teacher Attire). In that post, I wrote about how I have worn a tie and sport coat every day I have taught (except for when we’ve gone … Continue reading →
My Class Had A Very Musical Thursday Today….
A few times each year, I bring my Beginning and Intermediate English Language Learner students to music and art classes at our school. Since most have to take extra periods of English during their high school career, they don’t have … Continue reading →
Send An Online Video Message With Vsnap
Vsnap lets you send a sixty second online video message very easily. Free registration is required. I’ve taken the opportunity to completely revise The Best Applications For Sending Online Video Messages.
Vocre Might Be A Very Useful Translation App
Vocre is a free iPhone app that TechCrunch describes like this: It’s almost magical how Vocre works; Speak into the app while your iPhone is vertical, flip the phone horizontal and the phone’s accelerometer cues the app to translate and … Continue reading →
“Socrates Fails Teacher Evaluation”
“Socrates Fails Teacher Evaluation” is a great post by Heidi_Hayes_Jacobs. It’s a must-read. Here’s how she ends it: The results were posted in the Agora for all to see the quality and performance of their teacher. Socrates failed. He simply … Continue reading →
The 27th Edition Of ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival Is Up!
Adam Simpson has just posted the 27th Edition of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival! It’s filled with excellent posts where teachers are describes lessons when their students were in the state of “flow” — when they were completely absorbed in what … Continue reading →
Research Studies Of The Week
I often write about research studies from various field and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies … Continue reading →
The Three Little Pigs,,,,If The Story Took Place Today
In my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, I have a very extensive lesson plan on Bloom’s Taxonomy (it’s one of my favorites and, but the way, I’ll be sharing it at Eye On Education’s online conference in March). The lesson … Continue reading →
“What Is Rigor?”
What Is Rigor? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to contribute your thoughts there or here….
“Camera Awesome” Looks Like A Useful iPhone App
The Wall Street Journal just gave Camera Awesome an incredibly positive review, and this free iPhone app became available yesterday for download. It looks very impressive. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me.
Using Community Organizing To Teach Reading
Get Organized Around Assets is the title of my article in the March issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership. It’s subtitled: The steps community organizers use to help change people’s lives can help teachers improve English language learners’ reading. I’ve also … Continue reading →
The Best Resources For Learning About Leap Year
I’m a little late to the “party” on this one, but if you can’t use it now, at least you’ll have it around four years from now Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learing About Leap Year: … Continue reading →
Photo Galleries Of The Week
Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more … Continue reading →
“Old Maps Online” Is Probably The Best Place To Find Historical Maps
Old Maps Online lets you type in a location and then it will search through collections of historical maps throughout the world to show you a variety of them for that area. Its interface and accessibility are superb. I’m adding … Continue reading →
Lots Of New Pinterest Resources
Here are the newest additions to The Best Guides To Figuring Out Pinterest: Your Pinterest cheat sheet is from Salon. How to Stay Safe on Pinterest is from Read Write Web. Everything Pinterest and Tumblr Users Need To Know About … Continue reading →
“In Focus” Lets You Highlight Sections Of Webpages
In Focus lets you, without any registration required, literally “highlight” a section of any webpage and provides a unique url address linking to it. It’s very familiar to CiteBite. The primary difference between the two is that with CiteBite, you … Continue reading →
Today’s Best Posts On What’s Happening In NYC
Here are the newest additions to The Best Posts & Articles About The New York Court Decision Releasing Teacher Ratings: Big Apple’s Rotten Ratings is by David B. Cohen. Applying a Precise Label to a Rough Number is by Michael … Continue reading →
