Every year I identify my personal favorite posts, and it’s time for my mid-year selection. You can see my choices for each of the past ten years here. And you can also see a list of my My All-Time Favorite Posts! I’ve also been highlighting some of the “best-of-the-best” in the “A Look Back” series. I’m adding this post to All Mid-Year 2017 “Best” Lists In One Place . Here are My Favorite Posts I
I’ve previously posted some of the activities I’ll be doing with my class of Beginning ELLs over the last two weeks of school: Here’s What I’m Doing As A Final With Beginning ELLs , Here’s What I’m Doing As “Part Two” For My ELL Beginner Finals Today, I thought I’d share a third activity… The last time I tried Google Story Builder , it was off-line. That was a bummer – it’s always been a great to
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated over 12,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). I’ve begun placing the “most popular” Pin of the week – accor
The Best Q&A Posts of 2017 – So Far is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. I share my personal choices for the best posts that have appeared there so far this year. I’m adding it to All Mid-Year 2017 “Best” Lists In One Place .
In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth blogging about, I post a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” (you might also be interested in The Twenty-Five Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2017 – So Far ). I also sometimes include tech tools or articles about them that might not exactly fit the definition of Web 2.0: 25+ Tools For Spicing Up Your
Here’s an amazing video composed of images from the Juno spacecraft. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning & Teaching About The Juno Spacecraft and to The Best Images Taken In Space . Read more about it at Wired.
Here are three new additions to The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More : Fake news – a lesson plan is from The Teacher James, and is for ELLs. 9 lessons to boost media literacy is by Frank Baker. Storyzy is an interesting new tool that lets you verify quotes. Unfortunately, it only goes back to 2015, but is continually updated. You can read more about it at
How can I Implement ‘Genius Hour’? is the new “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave responses in the comments section there or here…
Not matter what President Trump says or does, most teachers, of course, will continue to teach the facts of climate change. Here are some new additions to the massive The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change list: Stanford has an impressive climate change curriculum . Climate Change Effects Explained in Maps is from GIS Geography. Racing to Find Answers in the Ice is a NY Times interactive. T
Simon’s Cat videos are always great ones to show to English Language Learners and have them write and discuss what happens in them. A new one just came out today called “Copy Cat.” You might also be interested in The Best Fun Videos
