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Sunday, April 6, 2014

4-6-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:









Earth Day Resources
Earth Day takes place on April 22nd. You might be interested in The Best Earth Day Sites. Additional suggestions are welcome…


Check Out 1,700 Categorized Theory Of Knowledge Links
The online bookmarking tool Delicious no longer provides the number of links that are bookmarked in a particular category, but I guesstimate that I must be up to 1,700 or so categorized ones related to the International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge class. You can see them all here. Those are just the ones I’ve bookmarked. If you want to contribute to an even bigger, more “universal” collecti


Video: “A tour of the British Isles in accents”
I’m adding this video to The Best “Language Maps”:
“Scarlet Letter” Comes To The UK: Get Good Test Results & You Can Wear Your Own Clothes, While Bad Results Means You Wear School Uniform
Readers might remember the controversy around the southern California high school that issued color-coded student ID’s based on student standardized test scores. They also made students wait in different lunch lines, among other things. See The Best Resources To Learn About High School ID’s & The Scarlet Letter for more information. Well, a school in the United Kingdom is applying their own

A Bunch Of Student Motivation Resources
As regular readers know, I have a particular interest in the topic of student motivation, and my third book on the topic will be out next year. I’ve been accumulating some related resources, and am putting them all together in this post: Studies Offer Practical Ways to Bring ‘Growth Mindset’ Research to Schools is an Ed Week post about some recent studies. One of them featured having students rea


This Week In Web 2.0
In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth , I’ve recently begin a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” (you might also be interested in The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2013). I also sometimes include tech tools that might not exactly fit the definition of Web 2.0: LearnClick, and online cloze-maker (fill-in-the-gap), has re-introduced limi

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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: 100 most common words in English is an online game that Digital Play describes, and it could be useful in class. And, speaking of online activities for building vocabulary, the Food Porn Index could be a helpful site for…f


Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 4-5-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYThe iTunes Link To My Interview With Carol Tomlinson Wasn’t Working Before, But It Is Now!I had previously posted a link to my ten minute BAM! podcast interview with Carol Tomlinson. You could here it on BAM!’s website, but, because of technical problems, couldn’t download it on iTunes. It’