Wow…This Is A Pretty Powerful Sandy Hook Video
Here’s a new video ad on gun violence at schools. You can read more about it at The Atlantic, and here’s the YouTube description: December 14, 2013, will mark the one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is partnering with Mayors Against Illegal Guns to commemorate the anniversary with No More Silence, a campaign to honor the
Another Great Web App Bites The Dust: Bye, Bye Trapit
Trapit has been my favorite “web crawler” to scour the Web each day for news that I’m particularly interested in (for example, “parent engagement” articles. Each morning, it received an email with links to great articles and resources that I would have easily missed. Unfortunately, today it announced it was eliminating its consumer service to do something or other with businesses. So, I’ve deleted
Quote Of The Day: “Our Kids — Coddled or Confident?”
Our Kids — Coddled or Confident? is an excellent post by John Kuhn, and appeared in Anthony Cody’s Education Week Teacher blog. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles On 2012 PISA Test Results.
Resources On The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe
December 12th is a Mexican National Holiday, and an important day for many Mexican-Americans — The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning & Teaching About The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe.
Voting is open! Check out the 2013 Edublog Awards nominees!
Between now and December 18th, you can vote for nominees listed at the Edublog Awards site. As I’ve said in previous years, I feel honored by being “shortlisted” in several of the categories and greatly appreciate those who nominated me. Nevertheless, instead of voting for me, I’d ask that you vote for those who I nominated — if they made the shortlist. If not, vote for one of the other worthy no
The Best Resources Honoring Nelson Mandela At His Passing….
The world loss a great man . I have an exhaustive The Best Sites For Learning About Nelson Mandela list. I thought it would be useful to create a second one highlighting resources coming out now to celebrate his life and mourn his death. I certainly be adding to it in the coming days: English Lesson Plan on Nelson Mandela is from Famous People Lessons. RIP, Nelson Mandela. http://t.co/RwjZ6tlCwn
Video: “Teachers on Newtown 911 tapes were ‘remarkably calm’ amid chaos”
I’m adding this video to yesterday’s post, Resources On The Sandy Hook Shootings: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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December’s Best Tweets — Part One
Every month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them. Those are not included again in this post. If you don’t use Twitter, you can a
12-4-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Video: “The World Outside My Window – Time Lapse of Earth from the ISS”I’m adding this video to The Best Images Taken In Space:by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h The Best Places To Find The Most PopularI periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a numbe