The Best Commencement Speeches
I’ve published a number of posts about notable commencement addresses, and thought I’d bring them altogether here. I was prompted to do so by Vox’s great post today sharing their picks for The 21 greatest graduation speeches of the last 50 years. Here are my posts (let me know what Vox and I are missing): Animated Video: George Saunders’ Commencement Speech On “The Importance of Kindness” Video:
Edublogs Now Makes It Super-Easy To Embed “Pins” From Pinterest
I’ve posted a number of times about my frustration with the constantly changing process Pinterest provides for making Pins embeddable in blogs and websites. Well, Edublogs now makes it super-simple to do it — just copy and paste a Pin’s url address. You can see screenshots here. Here’s what it looks like: Just another reason why I think Edublogs is the best blogging platform out there!
“Practical Ideas To Help Students & Teachers Stay Organized”
Practical Ideas To Help Students & Teachers Stay Organized is my latest Education Week Teacher post. I share guest responses from three educators — Julia Thompson, Ariel Sacks and Gini Cunningham — as well as contributing my own thoughts. Here are some excerpts:
New World Cup Resources
Here are new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The 2014 World Cup In Brazil: Brazil 2014: the physics behind the Brazuca is an interactive from The Guardian. Brazilian anti-World Cup protests hit Sao Paulo and Rio is from The BBC. TES Connect has a number of downloadable lessons related to The World Cup. Here’s a link to the official World Cup YouTube Channel. It’s filled with usefu
5-14-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Video: “Around the World in 360° Degrees”In his own version of “Where The Hell is Matt?”, here’s a guy who took panoramic videos of himself in different places around the world. I don’t think it’s anyway near as interesting as the two “Matt” videos (which are also embedded below), since Matt shows much more interaction with