Sunday, May 18, 2014

5-18-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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








‘Help Students Be Organized By Being Organized Yourself’
‘Help Students Be Organized By Being Organized Yourself’ is Part Two in my Ed Week series on classroom organization. This post highlights the thoughts of two teachers — Debbie Diller and Leslie Blauman — as well as comments from readers. You might also be interested in Part One. Here are excerpts from today’s post:
New York 9/11 Museum Opens — Here Are Related Resources
President Obama spoke at the opening of the New York City 9/11 Museum, and it’s opening to the public this week. Here are some related resources I’m adding to my massive list, The Best Sites To Help Teach About 9/11: Here’s a photo gallery of the museum from the Boston Globe. The New York Times has several multimedia features: Obama Dedicates 9/11 Memorial Museum At 9/11 Museum Dedication, Remem

TED-Ed Video: “What Is The World Wide Web?”
TED-ED has a new video (and accompanying lesson) on “What Is The World Wide Web?” I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About The Internet.

YESTERDAY

“Quill” Could Be A Very Useful Tool For Reinforcing Grammar Concepts
Thanks to Richard Byrne, I recently learned about Quill. It provides well-done interactive exercises to reinforce grammar exercises and the real advantage is that you can create virtual classrooms to track student progress. And, it’s free. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Grammar Practice and to The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress. Here’s a vid
Infographic: How Long Will Our Natural Resources Last?
I’m adding this infographic to The Best Interactives Showing How Long Our Non-Renewables Will Last: Explore more visuals like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.


Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 5-17-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYTED Talks Starts A New Site, Though I’m Not Really Sure What It Is…TED Talks has just unveiled a new site called “Ideas.Ted.com”. Here’s how they describe it: ideas.TED.com is built to celebrate this: to track ideas that began decades ago and are now forging our current reality. And to foll