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Thursday, June 5, 2014

6-5-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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








June’s Best Tweets — Part One
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 post. If you don’t use Twitter, you can


D-Day Resources
Tomorrow is the seventieth anniversary of D-Day. You can find a lot of related resources at The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part Two). You might also be interested in The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part One).


New World Cup Resources: Fun Commercial & Very Useful Google Street View Expansion
Google has just announced a big expansion of Street View images from Brazil, and you can see all their highlights here. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Brazil. And here’s a fun World Cup commercial I’m adding to The Best Sites For Learning About The 2014 World Cup In Brazil:


6-4-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “slidebean” Looks Like A Good Way For Creating Online Slideshowsslidebean is a new free tool for creating online slideshows. It provides multiple formats and the ability to search the Web, within the application, for images. I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows. Here’s a video that describes how it wor