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Thursday, December 26, 2013

12-26-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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




A Collection Of Recommendation Lists From Around The Web For iPhone & iPad Apps
Over the past few days, the Web has been awash with recommendation lists of apps for people who received a new iPhone or iPad as a holiday gift. Here are a few of the best ones. I’ll be adding this list to both The Best Resources For Beginning iPad Users and The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me. 90 best free iPhone apps 2013 is from TechRadar. Start here: the best apps for all your n
Quote Of The Day: “School Testing Systems Should Be Examined In 2014″
There’s a great interview with Linda Darling-Hammond on NPR . It’s headlined School Testing Systems Should Be Examined In 2014. Here’s an excerpt:

Video: Thinking Outside The Box & Living To Tell The Tale
As the blog 22 Words describes it: After a dumpster near some woods was left open, some bear cubs decided to hop in for a snack…but then they couldn’t get back out. Here’s how some nearby humans solved this problem without getting mauled by mama… I’m adding this video to The Best Videos Showing “Thinking Outside The Box” — Help Me Find More.


This Is A Cool “A Taxonomy of Innovation” Interactive — I Wish I Understood It
The Harvard Business Review has just published a cool-looking “Taxonomy of Innovation” interactive. Unfortunately, I haven’t a clue what it means or how to use it. Let me know if you have better luck — perhaps my mind is just not working the day after Christmas. I’m still adding this info to The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom, just in case someone else c

December’s Best Tweets — Part Four
Every month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them. Those are not included again in this post. If you don’t use Twitter, yo
“The 10 Most Popular ‘Classroom Q & A Posts’ of 2013″
I’ve just published The 10 Most Popular ‘Classroom Q & A Posts’ of 2013 over at my Education Week Teacher blog, and it seems — to me, at least — like a pretty useful list. I’ll get back to my regular schedule over there next week….

Quote Of The Day: “Teaching Isn’t Rocket Science. It’s Harder”
In case you haven’t already seen the excellent article in Slate by Bryan Fuller titled Teaching Isn’t Rocket Science. It’s Harder, here’ an excerpt: It’s definitely worth checking out the entire piece….
Guest Post From National Teacher Of The Year: Bad Days “Happen To All Of Us”
Readers might remember that last month I posted a popular series at my Education Week Teacher column on the best ways to deal with bad days. Because of some technical difficulties, I didn’t receive a response from Jeff Charbonneau, 2013 National Teacher Of The Year, in time to include it there, so I’m publishing it here as a guest post. The good news, though, is that we’ve worked out those techni

12-25-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Feel Good” Christmas Stories For Christmas DayI’m compiling “feel good” Christmas stories today and will be adding them — whenever I can find time — as I find them and as people let me know. I’m using Storify to “curate” them: [View the story "\"Feel Good\" Christmas Stories For Christmas Day" on Storif