“Cambridge Ideas” Is Like “TED Talks” The University of Cambridge organizes an on-going series of short presentations called “Cambridge Ideas,” which seem to be very similar to TED Talks. They have their collection both on YouTube and on their own University website. I’m adding it to ...
This is Exciting! MSNBC Appears To Have Subtitles on ALL It’s Online Videos MSNBC has long be on my The Best Sites For News & History Videos That Won’t Get Blocked By Content Filters (At Least, Not By Ours!) list. It got even better a few months ago when they started offering transcripts of the videos. Those, however, ...
The Best Learning Games For Advanced ELL’s & Non-ELL’s In one of my previous posts, The Best Ways For Advanced ELL’s & Non-ELL’s To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly (For Their Classmates & Teacher To See), I shared our situation of being able to have our mainstream ninth-grade students do our ...
“100 things to do before you die” The author of the travel book, *100 things to do before you di*e, recently died, and The Independent newspaper created a slideshow showing all the 100 things. I’m adding it to The Best Sites Showing The Most Popular Tourist Destinations In The ...
MisterThread MisterThread joins the list of a zillion sites that lets you create a private chatroom. Others have more features, but MisterThread couldn’t be more simple. I’m adding it to The Best Online Tools For Collaboration — NOT In Real Time.
More On How Much Outside Factors Have On Student Achievement Here are the newest additions to The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher & Outside Factors Have On Student Achievement: Experiences of poverty and educational disadvantage is the title of a good report from the Rowntree Foundation Poverty and ...
