34th ELT Blog Carnival Just Published!
David Deubelbeiss at EFL Classroom 2.0 has just published the 34th ELT Blog Carnival (also known as the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival). It’s theme is “Best Lessons,” and teachers from around the work have contributed posts. The next edition will be hosted by Vicki Hollett and its about video lessons! Submit your entries by Oct. 31st HERE. You can see all the previous Blog Carnivals here. And you can
Talk With Me Online Friday Night!
As part of Connected Educators Month, Steve Hargadon is organizing a nightly “cafe” with with education bloggers and anybody else who would like to join in! You can read more about it at Steve’s blog and see a complete schedule for the month here. Friday night (tomorrow at the time this post was published), I’ll be on with Angela Maiers from 4:30-5:30 PM Pacific Coast Time (7:30 – 8:30 PM Eastern
“Trippin” Is An Innovative Site For Learning English
Trippin is an engaging and innovative site for English language-learning that combines “edgy” videos (classroom appropriate — just “hip” enough to be particularly attractive to teenage learners), quizzes, and geography. Though I obviously didn’t view all the videos and try-out all the interactives, they seem to be laid-out sequentially (and, I assume, with graduated levels of difficulty) — in oth
Special Edition Of This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Important Posts & Articles On Ed Policy
Usually, I just publish one “round-up” of good articles & posts on education policy each week, but there have been quite a few lately. Here’s a second, extra edition: PISA Learning, Not PISA Topping is by Andy Hargreaves and appears in Education Week. High-School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics is from The Atlantic, and makes some important points that can be applied to other areas beyond ath
Video: “Our Story In 2 Minutes”
I’ve previously posted about a Robert Krulwich NPR column, “Let’s Play History As A List” and how I’ve applied it in my Social Studies classes. Simply put, students list a few words, along with their rationale, to describe an historical era. I’ve also previously posted about a video produced by Melody Sheep, Our Story in 1 Minute, which makes me think that a version of “history as a list” could b
10-2-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: October’s (2013) Best Tweets — Part OneEvery month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave