Video: “Chicago’s Magical Piano”
This would be a good video to show to English Language Learners and have them describe what was happening — in writing and verbally. And, it’s a fun video for anyone to watch!
The Best Resources On The Sandy Hook Tragedy
Saturday is the one-year anniversary of the terrible shootings at Sandy Hook school. And, of course, today there was another in Colorado. Here are some useful resources: Alexander Russo has a good collection of anniversary coverage. Newtown: One Year Later is a Mother Jones special feature. “Sandy Hook Promise Launches ‘Parent Together’ As Tragedy’s One Year Mark Approaches” is from my other blog
Great Website “Into The Book” Updated
I’ve ranked the great website Into the Book as the number one site for Intermediate readers. Here is how I describe it at The Best Websites For Intermediate Readers: This is an absolutely incredible resource designed to help students learn reading strategies — visualize, predict, summarize, etc. For the past couple of years it had only been partially completed. In the course of examining sites fo
Another Response: Teaching Knowledge Questions
Two weeks ago, I published a post headlined: Attention, IB Theory Of Knowledge Teachers! How Do You Teach “Knowledge Questions” (Formerly “Knowledge Issues”)? As I said in the post, I think helping students understand knowledge questions is one of the most challenging tasks I have in class. I’ve invited a number of people to respond to that question, and will be posting their responses over the ne
“PixiClip” Is A Neat Drawing Tool For English Language Learners
PixiClip is a neat drawing tool I just learned about at Richard Byrne’s blog. I’d strongly encourage you to go there and read more details about the site and see his example but, basically, it lets you make a drawing and record either audio-only or a video to go along with it. It also lets you upload an image from the web and “mark it up,” but I think there are plenty of other web tools that let
12-12-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Resources On New Year CelebrationsI’ve just updated The Best Sites For Learning About New Year Celebrations. Feel free to make additional suggestions for the list….by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h YESTERDAYDecember’s Best Tweets — Part TwoEvery month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (an