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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

7-15-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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







The Best Funny Videos To Help Teach Grammar – Help Me Find More
© 2014 brett jordan, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Earlier today, I posted Weird Al Weird Al Yankovic’s new funny video teaching grammar (I’ve also posted it below). Then, Heather Wolpert-Gawron showed me another funny one, that’s also posted below. I figured there have got to be more out there, so I invite readers to contribute the ones you know about — I’ll post them here and, of course, give you f




Wednesday Is 45th Anniversary Of Apollo 11 Launch — Here Are Related Resources
© 1969 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Tomorrow is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11th, which landed on the moon. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About The Apollo 11 Moon Landing.


Two New & Intriguing Efforts To Provide Home Internet Access To Students
© 2012 Lars Plougmann, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio I’ve written a lot about our school’s efforts and the efforts of others to provide home internet access to low-income students and their families (see The Best Resources For Learning About Schools Providing Home Computers & Internet Access To Students). Two new and intriguing efforts have just begun — one by Facebook and the other by the New

Video: Shelly Terrell & I Talk About My Books
Shelly Terrell and I spent about fifteen minutes talking about some of my books (you can see free resources related to all of them here) last week, and you can see the interview below: Our conversation was part of a day-long series of interviews Shelly did with education authors (I don’t know how she was able to sustain her energy!). The above video is set to start at the beginning of our conver


New Study Reinforces Previous Ones Showing SEL Lessons Need To Be Short & Simple
© 2013 elPadawan, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio As regular readers of this blog and my books know, I’m an advocate of teaching Social Emotional Learning skills — and that I think they need to be simple so that individual teachers can integrate them easily with their regular classroom instruction. Previous research has also found that using that strategy is the best way to go (see Social Skills Tra
Video: Funny, Thoughtful, Strong Speech By New NEA President
Lily Eskelen Garcia, the new National Education Association President (you can read more about it at my previous post, Our National Union Has A New President!) just spoke at the American Federation Of Teachers Convention. It’s definitely worth watching:


7-14-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Infographic: “Around The World In 80 Hats”I’m adding this infographic to The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures:by Larry Ferlazzo / 8h7-13-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLarry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Latest Re