January’s Best Tweets – Part Four
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 shared 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, yo
Quote Of The Day: “Does it take more strength to restrain yourself or does it take more strength to fight back?”
Public Radio International just aired an interview with the first Hmong-American judge in U.S. history. They titled it First Days: The first Hmong American judge didn’t always acknowledge his roots. Here’s an excerpt when he’s talking about being ridiculed by classmates: This is a particularly useful article and quote for our school, since our student population is about one-third Hmong. I’m addi
“Should We Teach ‘Character’ In Schools? If So, How?”
Should We Teach ‘Character’ In Schools? If So, How? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher blog. Feel free to leave your responses in the comments here or there….
“ClassFlow” Is Live, Available & Free
Last month, I posted about the upcoming unveiling of a new web tool called ClassFlow. Here’s what I wrote then: ClassFlow is a new tool being unveiled by Promethean in January. They say that “Beginning in January 2014, teachers will be able to sign up for a complimentary ClassFlow account.” It looks pretty interesting, though I’ve got to wonder what it’s cost structure is going to end up being. I
Testing On The Brain
Something must be in the air these past twenty-four hours, as the idea of tests (or their alternatives) have been appearing in various media outlets. Jessica Lahey, who I like and respect, seemed to start it off yesterday, with her Students Should Be Tested More, Not Less in the Atlantic. She tried hard to temper the headline with the content of the article, but Paul Thomas eloquently points out
“Trove” Is A New Personalized Newsreader With Promise
Trove has just been launched by the previous owners of The Washington Post. I’m not sure that it’s radically different from the other sites on The Best Sites For Creating Personalized “Newspapers” Online list, but it seems like it’s worth trying out — especially since my previous favorite tool (Trap.it) discontinued their service last week. My primary concern about it is that — for now, at least
1-21-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” — January (Part Three)I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with