“Getting Parents Engaged with School”
Getting Parents Engaged with School is a lively public discussion that’s going on at Edutopia right now. Good thoughts and ideas are being shared — Check it out!
“Even the Best Teacher Could Be Considered a Negligent Parent”
Even the Best Teacher Could Be Considered a Negligent Parent is a thoughtful post at Ed Week Teacher by Marilyn Rhames. Here’s an excerpt: When parents are going through tough times in life, I want to be the kind of teacher who uplifts them and their children. It is not my place to judge or assume that the mom who says she is too busy to come to parent conferences just doesn’t care. While I want t
Video: Rube Goldberg Machine Ad To Show That “girls deserve more choices than dolls and princesses”
In case you haven’t yet seen this ad that shows ” girls deserve more choices than dolls and princesses,” here it is (you can read more about it at The New York Times). I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Rube Goldberg Machines.
“Nominations Open! The 10th Annual Edublog Awards Are Here!”
It’s that time again — Nominations Open! The 10th Annual Edublog Awards Are Here! These awards recognized education blogs from around the world, and I think they’re great opportunities to learn about blogs and great work that is out there that all of us might not know about. You can read about my past nominations (and past winners) in my previous posts about the awards. I’ll be offering my nominee
‘Good News & Bad News’ About Student Motivation
‘Good News & Bad News’ About Student Motivation is my newest post over at Education Week Teacher. It’s the second post in my Ed Week series on student motivation and includes responses from Cindi Rigsbee , Stevi Quate & Maurice Elias, plus a chart by me…
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Using The Amazing New Bob Dylan Video With English Language Learners
As you might have heard, Bob Dylan released an amazing interactive video of his song, Like A Rolling Stone, today. You can see it here, and read about it here. It has sixteen different tracks, like television channels (including a cooking channel as the above image shows), synchronized with different people in different locations mouthing words to the song. It’s got to be seen and heard to be bel
The Best “Mind-Blowing” Videos About Technology That I’ve Seen — Help Me Find More
I post a lot of videos on this blog, and you can see links to all my annual “Best Videos For Educators” lists here. Occasionally, I post videos that are, in some ways, just “mind-blowing” — at least to me — in showing the potential of technology. I’m posting three to start off this list, and hope readers will contribute more: Here’s an excerpt from The Boston Globe about this first video: In a pa
Geography Students Use “Stay.com” To Create Virtual Trips
As I’ve previously posted, I’ve been energized to try-out a fair amount of Web 2.0 tools this year with my English Language Learners. I’ve been wanting to do a number of these projects for years, but the Internet filter our District had been using made often made doing it quite difficult — if not impossible. You can see what I’ve been doing in just the first three two-and-a-half months here and h
Infographic: “Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013″
Oxford Dictionaries has just named “Selfie” as their word of the year, and published this infographic. I’ll certainly be including it in my annual end-of-the-year “Words of the Year” Best list. Here are previous lists: The Best “Words Of The Year” Features For 2010 The Best “Words Of The Year” Features For 2011 The Best “Words Of The Year” Features For 2012 And here’s an article from The Atlantic
11-19-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Two Interactives On The Assassination Of John F. KennedyHere are two new interactives on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I’m adding them to The Best Online Resources About President John F. Kennedy: A Moment That Change Everything is a particularly impressive feature from The Washington Post. John F. Kennedy’s assassi