Only A Little Time Left To Recommend Books & Make Predictions This weekend, I’ll be preparing posts sharing the best education-related books this blog’s readers have read in 2010 and your education-related predictions for 2011. If you haven’t shared your yet, and many have, please go to these posts and leave ...
“Show My Street” Show My Street instantly shows you the Google Maps Street View image of any address you type in, and then gives you a unique url to it that you can share. English Language Learners can pick any place, post the link to it on a student/teacher blog or ...
“Is Subject Matter Expertise Enough for Successful Teaching?” Is Subject Matter Expertise Enough for Successful Teaching? is the title of a recent Walt Gardner post at Ed Week. It covers similar ground — with newer information — to a post I wrote earlier this year that provoked a lot of comments – How Much ...
New Year’s Resources Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About New Year Celebrations: ESL Holiday Lessons has a New Year’s lesson for English Language Learners. New Year’s Around The World is a LIFE slideshow.
The “Special Holiday Emergency Desk” Is Wonderful The “Special Holiday Emergency Desk” is a wonderful application to reinforce vocabulary with English Language Learners, and it’s also a lot of fun for anybody else. You type in the word for just about anything, and a virtual artist “draws” it for ...
“Small Surprise, Big Mood Change” “Small Surprise, Big Mood Change” reports on some studies that show the not particularly surprising find that small positive surprises can improve one’s mood: *…even a tiny positive surprise can improve one’s outlook, albeit temporarily. In an ...
“Finding and using public domain photographs” Finding and using public domain photographs comes from Public Domain Sherpa, and contains quite a few sources of good images that are new-to-me. In addition, the site offers helpful advice on using each source. I’m adding the link to The Best Online ...
“The amazing truth about PISA scores” I have no idea how Alexander Russo found this post, but it’s a good one. It’s titled The amazing truth about PISA scores: USA beats Western Europe, ties with Asia, and offers a great analysis of the recent PISA scores. The blog which published it ...
The Best “Words Of The Year” Features For 2010 There are several “words of the year” lists that come out annually. The might be useful for advanced English Language Learners, but I think they can be more effectively used in Theory of Knowledge classes (plus, they’re fun to read for English ...
