The Best Hans Rosling Videos
You may, or may not, be familiar with Hans Roslings famous videos explaining world demographics and their economic and social implications. He just published a new one, and I figured I’d take the opportunity to share his previous videos that I’ve shared in this blog: Here’s his newest one: His latest TED Talk is called Religions and Babies: A PBS News Hour report about him is embedded here. You
Video: “How Many Times Should You Try Before Success?”
Even though students may not recognize a number of the examples, I’m still adding this video to The Best Video Clips Demonstrating “Grit”:
Updated List On Tools Students Can Use To Make Virtual Travel Plans
A few hours ago, I published a post making a nice addition to The Best Resources For Finding And Creating Virtual Field Trips. I took this opportunity to also update The Best Sites Where Students Can Plan Virtual Trips. A nice geography lesson is to have students plan a trip to some location (or locations). There are several web tools on that list which make doing this pretty easy — it’s just a m
Google Unveils Great Resource For Virtual Field Trips
Google has just announced a new initiative, Connected Classrooms, that will begin offering some pretty exciting virtual field trips through Google+. Here’s an excerpt from their announcement: Today we’re launching a new initiative on Google+ called Connected Classrooms that enables students around the world to take “virtual field trips” through Google+ Hangouts, visiting places they would otherwi
My NY Times Post On Using Music With ELLs
My latest New York Times post for English Language Learners focuses on using music for language development and includes a student interactive, video, and teaching ideas. One of those ideas relates to using West Side Story to initiate a discussion of gangs. I’m adding it to: The Best Music Websites For Learning English The Best Sites To Learn About Street Gangs
11-3-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Recover From Bad Days by Seeing ‘Disasters as Opportunities’”Recover From Bad Days by Seeing ‘Disasters as Opportunities’ is my new Education Week Teacher post, and it’s a good one. It includes a response from Roxanna Elden, who is one of the most engaging and entertaining education writers around. Her contribution is foll