Friday’s New Sochi Resources (Including Lots Of Useful Videos)
Here are today’s additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games: Winter speed demons is an interactive from The Washington Post. Charts: The Most Ridiculously Expensive Olympics Ever is from Mother Jones. Teaching the Sochi Olympics | English Language Arts, Journalism and Fine Arts is from The New York Times Learning Network. Sochi 2014 Olympics: Reaching the p
Some Last Valentine’s Day Resources
Here are a few last additions (at least, for this year!) to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day: Valentine’s Day: A History of the Day of Love is from Voices Of America’s Learning English, and includes a number of resources. Heads Up English has a good Valentine’s Day exercise. Why do we celebrate Valentine’s Day? is from EFL Smart Blog. Explore more infographics like this one on the w
February’s Best Tweets — Part Two
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
Haiku Deck Announces iPhone Version That Lets You Control Your Presentations
Haiku Deck, an iPad app which now has a Web version, may very well be the best tool for creating online slideshows that are out there. It’s on The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows list. Richard Byrne has made a tutorial explaining how to use the web version, though it’s pretty darn easy to use. Now, they’ve just unveiled a iPhone app that, among other things, lets you use it as a remote co
“Love English” Awards Are A Great Place To Find Useful ESL/ELL Websites
Macmillan Publishers annually sponsor a “Love English” award contest for websites and blogs emphasizing support for English Language Learners. I view these kids of contests as not particularly important in terms of who wins, and much more useful as a way to learn about new sources of useful information. I think the list of nominated websites looks particularly interesting since a number of them a
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Thursday’s Updated Sochi Resources
Here are some new good additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games: This amazing interactive map is certainly one of the best resources created around the Winter Olympics. Teaching the Sochi Olympics | Science, Health and Math is from The New York Times Learning Network. Check out this neat NY Times interactive on Olympics gear used by the athletes. Looking
“Thinglink” Announces Free Virtual Classrooms
I’ve previously posted about Thinglink, the online photo annotation tool that is sort of like a Picture Word Inductive Model for the Web (I describe the PWIM in detail in an ASCD Educational Leadership article, Get Organized Around Assets. Thinglink basically allows you to label any image you choose. I’ve embedded an example at the bottom of this post. It’s already on The Best Ways To Use Photos
This Free Site Will Review Your Work & Show You How To Write It Like Hemingway Would…
Thanks to Katherine Schulten, today I learned about the Hemingway app, a fun site that will evaluate your writing and tell you how to change it to Hemingway’s style. I’ve included a screenshot above of what it had to say about what I believe is the best piece I’ve ever written for publication, Videotaping teachers the right way (not the Gates way). As you can see, it told me the piece was “OK.” T
2-12-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: More Valentine’s Day ResourcesHere are some new additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day: Valentine’s Day – Hitting The Sweet Spots is from the ASIDE blog. Last Minute Love Lessons is from Online TEFL Training. Valentine’s Day – Resources for class is from David’s ESOL Blog.by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h “Why Do T