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Sunday, June 29, 2014

6-29-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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






The National Writing Project & Public Television Create A MOOC On Social Media
KQED Education and the National Writing Project are sponsoring a summer MOOC (online class) for educators titled Teach Do Now: Student Engagement with Issues that Matter Using Social Media. You can read more about it at the link. I’ll be on a panel with Tina Barseghian, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Vicki Davis to kick it off on July 7th. We’ll be discussion “What are the best strategies for accessin

“Ways To Teach Globalization”
Ways To Teach Globalization is my latest post at Education Week Teacher. Four educators — John T. Spencer, Diana Laufenberg, Jennifer D. Klein, and Jason Flom — have contributed responses in today’s post. In addition, I’ve included comments from readers and a few of my own ideas. Here are some excerpts:


Just Updated Resources On U.S. Presidents
© 2009 Beverly & Pack, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve just updated The Best Sites To Learn About U.S. Presidents. Additional suggestions are welcome.


June’s Best Posts From This Blog
I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here). Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this pas
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 6-28-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYJune’s “The Best” Lists — There Are Now 1,322 Of Them!Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,321 of them categorized here): The Best Science Sites Of 2014 – So Far The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students In 2014 – So Far Th