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February 2012 - Posts
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In my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, I have a very extensive lesson plan on Bloom’s Taxonomy (it’s one of my favorites and, but the way, I’ll be sharing it at Eye On Education’s online conference in March). The lesson … Continue reading Read More...
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What Is Rigor? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to contribute your thoughts there or here…. Read More...
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The Wall Street Journal just gave Camera Awesome an incredibly positive review, and this free iPhone app became available yesterday for download. It looks very impressive. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me. Read More...
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Get Organized Around Assets is the title of my article in the March issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership. It’s subtitled: The steps community organizers use to help change people’s lives can help teachers improve English language learners’ reading. Read More...
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I’m a little late to the “party” on this one, but if you can’t use it now, at least you’ll have it around four years from now Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learing About Leap Year: … Continue reading → Read More...
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Old Maps Online lets you type in a location and then it will search through collections of historical maps throughout the world to show you a variety of them for that area. Its interface and accessibility are superb. I’m adding … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Guides To Figuring Out Pinterest: Your Pinterest cheat sheet is from Salon. How to Stay Safe on Pinterest is from Read Write Web. Everything Pinterest and Tumblr Users Need To Know About … Continue reading → Read More...
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In Focus lets you, without any registration required, literally “highlight” a section of any webpage and provides a unique url address linking to it. It’s very familiar to CiteBite. The primary difference between the two is that with CiteBite, you … Continue Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Posts & Articles About The New York Court Decision Releasing Teacher Ratings: Big Apple’s Rotten Ratings is by David B. Cohen. Applying a Precise Label to a Rough Number is by Michael … Continue reading → Read More...
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Advice From The “Book Whisperer,” Ed Week Readers & Me About Teaching Reading is the title of the last post in my five part Education Week Teacher series on reading. I think it’s a good one…. Read More...
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When you’re traveling (by any way other than air), all you have to do is open the StreetFlow app, and it will automatically show you pictures of where you are, provide audio narration from Wikipedia, and show images from Instagrama … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are several new additions to The Best Posts & Articles About The New York Court Decision Releasing Teacher Ratings: Reign Of Error: The Publication Of Teacher Data Reports In New York City is from The Shanker Blog. A principal … Continue reading Read More...
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Here’s a cool color video of World War II soldiers. I’m adding it to The Best Online Resources For Teaching & Learning About World War II (Part Two): Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Understanding How To Interpret Education Research: How to Judge if Research is Trustworthy is by Audrey Watters. The “Journal of Errology” has a very funny post titled What it means … Continue reading Read More...
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Ana Maria Menezes, an English teacher in Brazil, has worked with teachers in other countries to create a neat An Image A Week project. Each week, students share a photo and write about it. You can learn all about it … Continue reading → Read More...
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There are fascinating comment threads on my two recent posts on gamification in education — The Dangers Of “Gamification” In Education and Kathy Sierra On Gamification In Education. Kathy Sierra has been participating in both comment threads, along with Read More...
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“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” won the Oscar for Best Animated Short last night. It’s described as taking: …place in a world where books are living creatures. It offers sentimental tale about the power of books and … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are new additions to The Best Resources About Wealth & Income Inequality: Your Money’s Worth: Examining Facts and Attitudes About Income Inequality is from The New York Times Learning Network. Income Inequality Is Bad For Society is a series … Continue Read More...
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Kathy Sierra, the well-known and respected tech writer and thinker, posted a lengthy comment on my post from earlier today titled The Dangers Of “Gamification” In Education. I thought it deserved to be read more widely, and she graciously agreed … Continue Read More...
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“The box score shows failure. To Lin, it reads like a teachable moment” is a quote from the end of a New York Times piece on Jeremy Lin which traces his hard work and perseverance over the past couple of … Continue reading → Read More...
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I know there has been a fair amount of online discussion going on about using “gamification” in schools, but I haven’t really been keeping on top of it. Today, though, I read an interesting article in the San Francisco Chronicle … Continue reading → Read More...
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If you were as amazed as I was by the original Scale Of The Universe, you have to check out Scale Of The Universe 2. This interactive shows you — literally — the scale of the universe. It will certainly … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m embarrassed to say that I had never heard of it before, but apparently March 1st has been declared “World Book Day” by UNESCO. Here is is how it’s explained by “Education Scotland”: World Book Day was designated by UNESCO … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve recently discovered a couple of engaging sites that are designed to keep an eye on future trends and innovation in technology and in other areas. I think they’re pretty interesting, and thought I’d post a short “The Best…” list … Continue reading Read More...
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Scroll to see the ocean’s deepest depths is an interactive infographic from The BBC. Scroll down the infographic and it not only shows you information about what is happening at that depth of the ocean, it also provides videos and … Continue reading Read More...
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Our Mother Tongues is a very impressive site that’s designed to support and preserve Native American languages. It’s very engaging, and includes a “language map,” videos and more. One of its very neat features is that it allows you choose … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are two new additions to The Best Places To Find Quotations On The Web: The 10 best last lines – in pictures is a slideshow from The Guardian. Reel Life Wisdom is a “movie quote directory.” Read More...
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“The Wild Heart” is a breathtaking timelapse video of the American Southwest: Read More...
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“The only way this will have any kind of a positive impact,” she said, “would be if people see how ridiculous this is and it gives New York State pause about how they are going about teacher evaluation.” The New … Continue reading → Read More...
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Via Chris Wejr You can see an extended clip here. Read More...
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The University of Pennsylvania gave its first “Brilliant Mistakes” awards earlier this month to “people whose mistakes were most productive.” The project is pretty interesting, and I’m adding it to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Read More...
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If you’ve ever wondered when the “best” times were to post to your blog and to send a tweet in order to maximize your readership, here’s the info you need: When’s the Best Time to Blog & Share? is from … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Wall Street Journal has just published a surprisingly thoughtful video on the use of Value-Added Measures to evaluate teachers in New York City and elsewhere. I’ll be adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About The New York … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Posts & Articles About The New York Court Decision Releasing Teacher Ratings: Teacher Quality Widely Diffused, Ratings Indicate is from The New York Times. That paper is publishing the ratings, despite the … Continue Read More...
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Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. Now and then, in order to make it … Continue reading → Read More...
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Grab the url address of any YouTube video, paste it into the Artistifier, type in your name and title, and the site will “artistify” the video in the manner of the Oscar-nominated silent movie “The Artist.” As the video plays … Continue reading → Read More...
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Teacher ratings were released to the media this morning in New York for thousands of teachers — see The New York Times article City Teacher Data Reports Are Released. The quote is the headline is from that article: The release … Continue reading → Read More...
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Lots of lessons here for teachers and parents in this Zits comic strip: Read More...
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I’ve posted — and used — Google’s cool Ngram Viewer (see The Best Posts To Help Understand Google’s New “Books Ngram Viewer”). It lets you easily analyze “the 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in … Continue reading Read More...
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“Venn Diagrams (Under The Spotlight)” is a piece of art by Argentinian artist Amelia Pica. It’s been making the rounds in the blogosphere (including at Brain Pickings), and you can see it below. This is how Ms. Pica describes it: … Continue reading → Read More...
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Ways to Help Our Students Become Better Readers – Part Four is the latest in my five part Education Week Teacher on reading. It includes contributions from Kelly Young, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Carol Jago. Read More...
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Here are a few last additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Mardi Gras & Carnivals: More From Carnival 2012 is a photo gallery from The Atlantic. Carnival 2012 is a photo gallery from The Boston Globe. Mardi Gras … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously written how I used photos of my students in class to promote their metacognition. It’s always gone well. Today, Alison Anderson wrote a guest post in Richard Byrne’s blog that I think took that concept a step further … Continue reading Read More...
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I’m adding these resources to The Best Digital Storytelling Resources. Event though they don’t focus on the “digital” part of things, they share important information on the value of stories. That list includes other similar links: Lincoln Tells a Story Read More...
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Eye On School Success looks like a pretty darn good online conference in March, and it will include a Webinar led by me on Helping Students Motivate Themselves. It’s sponsored by education publisher Eye On Education. The two day conference … Continue Read More...
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I have little confidence in Bill Gates judgment on education issues, including on how to evaluate teachers. However, he did get one thing right in today’s guest column in The New York Times, which is headlined “Shame Is Not the … Continue reading → Read More...
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Magisto is an amazing video editor that is an app on its own and is also available as a YouTube editing tool. It was on The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2011 list. I’ve just started using it. … Continue reading → Read More...
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Parent Trigger Fails (Again) In California is the headline of the latest post at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. A Southern California School Board announced tonight that the petition didn’t have enough valid signatures, and that many parents Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Mardi Gras & Carnivals: Nothin’ But A Party In New Orleans is a CNN video: Brazil Carnival 2012 is a photo gallery from The Sacramento Bee. Fat Tuesday … Continue reading → Read More...
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This is a very good short video on how our brain learns. It also reinforces the importance of deliberative practice. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Showing Students That They Make Their Brain Stronger By Learning. Read More...
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The March 1st edition will be hosted by Adam Simpson. You can read about his plans for it at his post, Introducing the 27th Blog Carnival. Instead of using the submission form we’ve used in the past, just send the … Continue reading → Read More...
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More Ways to Help Our Students Become Better Readers – Choice & Access is my newest column at Education Week Teachers. It features contributions from Laura Robb, Regie Routman, and Kylene Beers. Read More...
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It’s an on-going challenge for our students to be able to afford college. Here are a some of the best sites out there to help them. Feel free to provide additional suggestions: ScholarPro is a new site that matches students … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today, The New York Times published an article about the new Superintendent of the Atlanta schools, Erroll Davis. He’s replaced Beverly Hall after the publicized cheating scandal (see The Best Posts & Articles About The Atlanta Testing Scandal). Based Read More...
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Here are tons more additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Mardi Gras & Carnivals: Rio Carnival 2012: costumes and celebrations is a slideshow from The Guardian. In pictures: Rio de Janeiro carnival is from The BBC. Rio de … Continue reading → Read More...
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“Parent Trigger Divides Families” Says L.A. Times is the title of the newest post over at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. The L.A. Times has just run a story about the disastrous second effort at using the flawed … Continue reading → Read More...
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My Teacher Leaders Network David B. Cohen has just published an interview with me over at the Accomplished California Teachers blog. You might find it useful/interesting. Here’s one short excerpt: When you think about public education in Sacramento, in Read More...
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The Best Places To Read & Write “Choose Your Own Adventure” Stories is one of my more popular “Best” lists, and I’m adding several links that describe how you can use Google Forms to create one of them: Google Forms … Continue reading → Read More...
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Tuesday is Mardi Gras! Here are the newest additions The Best Sites To Learn About Mardi Gras & Carnivals: Carnival season: costumed revellers parade in Trinidad, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venice is a slideshow from The Telegraph. Here’s a video from … Continue Read More...
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What is going on in New York? First, several days ago a court ruled that the “ratings” of thousands of New York City teachers must be made public. A couple of days later a deal with struck for an insane … Continue reading → Read More...
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Seventy years ago today, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which was used to remove all Japanese and Japanese-Americans from the U.S. West Coast. Here are new additions to The Best Resources On Japanese Internment In World War II: Read More...
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I began this blog five years ago. Writing it has made me a better teacher for my students, and I hope it’s been helpful to others. It’s been an incredible gift to be able to connect with so many talented … Continue reading → Read More...
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Kwiqpoll lets you easily create a poll — and no registration is required. You’re give the poll’s url address, but it’s not embeddable. It has no frills, but it’s easy as pie. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today’s New York Times Magazine has a pretty scary article about how the retail giant Target tracks what’s going on in the lives of customers and uses that information to get us to buy more stuff from them. It’s definitely … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about the numerous online learning charlatans out there trying to use it to privatize education (see A Beginning “The Best…” List On The Dangers Of Privatizing Public Education). The California Educator, a publication of the California Read More...
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I’ve written a lot about my classroom experiences with students on both helping them learn from mistakes (see The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures) and helping them learn that their intelligence is not “fixed” … Continue Read More...
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I now have about one thousand categorized links for my IB Theory of Knowledge class. I use them in my teaching, and students use them in the weekly lesson they prepare and teach. Of course, anyone in the world is … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Social Bookmarking Applications For English Language Learners & Other Students. Additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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My next book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide — co-authored with my colleague Katie Hull Sypnieski — is now available for pre-order on Amazon and on Jossey-Bass’ website. It will be published in early August, and has nearly 100,000 words. … Continue Read More...
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Here are some recent good education policy posts and articles: Pasi Sahlberg, the expert and author on education in Finland, has a blog. I’ve added it to The Best Resources To Learn About Finland’s Education System. ‘Lesson Study,” Japanese Strategy … Read More...
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I’m beginning to think about how to use Pinterest, and have joined it.. I’m beginning to use it as a place to save images I use in class. Here are new additions to The Best Guides To Figuring Out Pinterest: … Continue reading → Read More...
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was interviewed by Jon Stewart last night. One portion aired on television, but it was extended and the majority of it was posted only on the Web. I’ve posted all three parts below. I thought … Continue reading → Read More...
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I spend a fair amount of classroom time trying to incorporate Bloom’s Taxonomy in my classroom — by incorporating higher levels in my lesson planning and by helping students gain an understanding of it so they can apply them. I … Continue reading → Read More...
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Awesome Stories is on several of my “The Best…” lists — it has extremely accessible articles and multimedia on just about every topic imaginable. And it just got even better… They’ve begun adding a “Visual Vocabulary Builder” to many of … Continue reading Read More...
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The past year has been one of increasing death and hardship for the people of Syria. I thought it would be useful if I started a “The Best…” list that might be useful for teachers and students. I’m starting it … Continue reading → Read More...
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As I posted yesterday, public ratings for over 12,000 New York teachers will be released to the news media within the next week or two. Here are the newest additions to The Best Posts & Articles About The New York … Continue reading → Read More...
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I have to admit that I’m not well-versed in Charlotte Danielson’s work and her teacher evaluation framework, but it’s sure becoming very popular, very quickly. The New York Times “School Book” has just published an interesting interview with her: An … Read More...
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What Jeremy Lin Teaches Us About Talent is an interesting new column by Jonah Lehrer. He shares observations and research about the inadequacies of metrics used to evaluate sports talent, and many of the same critiques, I think, can be … Continue reading Read More...
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Well-known authors and teachers Nancie Atwell and Cris Tovani contribute their suggestions at my newest teacher advice column at Education Week Teacher. Check-out Ways To Help Our Students Become Better Readers – Part Two. Read More...
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Here are some final additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day: Valentine’s Day 2012 is a photo gallery from The Atlantic. The Sacramento Bee has a similar photo gallery. Five Countries Where Valentine’s Day Is Banned is … Continue reading Read More...
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Education Week Teacher has just published my new article “Cultivating Student Leadership.” Feedback is welcome — there or here. Read More...
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As The New York Times just reported: The United Federation of Teachers on Tuesday lost what appeared to be its final chance to block the release of thousands of New York City teachers’ ratings, and school officials said they would … Continue reading Read More...
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Today, TED began a new searchable feature called TED Quotes. They highlight great quotes from their TED Talks, and they link back to the presentation. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Find Quotations On The Web and to … Continue reading → Read More...
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Jason Davies has developed a new interactive world cloud generator that lets you use Twitter, Wikipedia or a url address. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About “Word Clouds.” Thanks to Flowing Data for the tip. Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day: Uzbekistan ‘cancels Valentines Day’ is from the BBC. Valentine’s Day from days gone by – in pictures is from The Guardian. Valentine’s Day ‘wedding’ for ram … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day: You can’t miss this Valentine’s Medley: The best love poems: writers choose their favourites – interactive is from The Guardian. Valentine’s Day By the Numbers infographic Read More...
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I’ve previous posted about “Turn-O-Phrase,” a game where you are shown images that give hints to common English phrases, and you need to identify that words that would go along with them. You can also get hints. I had two … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Sites For Learning About Immigration In The United States. Additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day: Valentine’s Day 2012 Spending, By the Numbers is from TIME. Here are two CNN videos: Read More...
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Spelling Connections has tons of reading, writing, and spelling interactive that are “leveled” from Grade One To Grade Eight. I’m adding it to The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites. Read More...
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As regular readers know, I’m not a fan of the Khan Academy (see The Best Posts About The Khan Academy). Several of the posts and articles on that list question the basic pedagogy used in how Khan teaches math, and … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today is Darwin Day, and I’ve updated The Best Online Resources To Learn About Charles Darwin. Additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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As a native New Yorker who grew-up during the glory days of Willis Reed and Walt Frazier, it’s been a delight this week to see the play of Jeremy Lin and the “Linsanity” that surrounds it (coincidentally, Lin was a … Continue reading → Read More...
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Yumi sent me this touching “arigato” (thank you) video made in Japan to thank people and countries who have helped them recover from the earthquake and tsunami. I’m adding it to Useful Updates On Japan Earthquake — Part Two. Read More...
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As regular readers know, I’m not a fan of teacher merit pay (see The Best Resources For Learning Why Teacher Merit Pay Is A Bad Idea). Some school reformers and researchers have suggested that providing merit pay for entire schools … Continue reading Read More...
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Here’s a pretty amazing interactive animation of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”: I’m adding it to The Best Collections Of “The Best” Pieces Of Art Ever Created. Read More...
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Giving Parents the Runaround on School Turnarounds is the title of the press release from the respected Great Lakes Center announcing a review of a recent report on marketing unwise “school turnaround strategies.” Here’s an excerpt from the press release: Read More...
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Wired has a series of fantastic videos shot from the International Space State at night. Here’s one of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. You can see a lot more at the Wired site. I’m adding this info to … Continue reading → Read More...
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There have been some recent winners announced for a few annual contests: I’m adding the following links to The Best “World Press Photo” Winners: Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955-2011 is from BuzzFeed. World Press Photo Winners 2012 World … Continue Read More...
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Mistakeville is a site where users can share their mistakes and what they learned from them. Using it could be a nice addition to the unit I do on making mistakes. I’m adding it both to The Best Posts, Articles … Continue reading → Read More...
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A study just came out evaluating three different parent styles — “authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive.” It seems to me that what they found goes for teaching styles, too: Authoritarian parents whose child-rearing style can be summed up as “it’s Read More...
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Tonight, the PBS New Hour had a very interesting feature on Jessica Beinecke, the writer, host and producer of “OMG! Meiyu,” or “Oh My Gosh! American English,” a cool and very popular online video feature to teach American slang to … Continue reading Read More...
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NPR has a nice story today on the head of the Humane Society and the head of the Egg Producers group reaching a compromise on national legislation. It would have been nice if the two sides also had to have … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ll be a guest on next Wednesdays #PTchat on Twitter to discuss: strategies schools can employ to partner with ESL/ELL families It will be on on Wednesday, February 17th at 9PM EST. You can learn more about it at Joe … Continue reading → Read More...
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Xtranormal, the relatively well-known site that lets you create animations with audio, is letting anyone send a Valentine’s Day greeting — no registration required. All you have to do is go here, make your choices — including if you want … Continue reading Read More...
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The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons is a must-read post by Ronnie Burt over at The Edublogger. I’m adding it to The Best Resources To Learn About Copyright Issues. Read More...
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I support using alternative methods to student performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers. In fact, I have a long list of “tried and true” alternatives at The Best Articles Describing Alternatives To High-Stakes Testing. One of those alternative Read More...
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Yesterday, I posted NPR’s Robert Krulwich Provides Another Excellent Idea For A History Lesson. I didn’t try that idea out today, but tried another one that I had previously posted (“Let’s Play ‘History As A List’” Is A Fascinating Idea). … Continue reading Read More...
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Hold Ye Front Page is a cool site from the British newspaper “Sun” where they produce online front pages about events in world, science and sports history. The articles are fairly accessible, and they typically include videos from The History … Continue Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Tools For Creating Fake “Stuff” For Learning. Additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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Here are a few recent good posts on education policy issues: Getting Real About Turnarounds is by Diane Ravitch. I’m adding it to The Best Posts About Attrition Rates At So-Called “Miracle” Schools. New Hope for the Obama/Gates School of … Continue reading Read More...
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I’m adding this video to The Best Sites For Learning About The Northern Lights: Aurora 2012 from Christian Mülhauser on Vimeo. Read More...
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Last month, I shared a column written by Robert Krulwich at NPR about talking about history “as lists” and how I was planning on using his idea in class. Today, Krulwich wrote another fascinating column titled ‘Rasputin Was My Neighbor’ … Continue reading Read More...
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Solve For X is a series of TED-like talks that appear to be sponsored by Google. It’s described as “A forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork.” Here’s a sample. It’s a talk by Nicholas Negroponte on … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve recently completed revised and updated The Best Places Where Students Can Write For An “Authentic Audience.” Additional suggestions are always welcome. Read More...
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I’ve heard/read about Nancy Duarte’s perspective on telling good stories before, and generally thought it was a bit convoluted and not helpful. However, either because I was feeling a little more patient (maybe I was also more willing to hear … Continue Read More...
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Here’s a video of someone who wanted to become a professional skier, but broke his back on the slopes while doing a backflip and became a paraplegic. Eight years later he became the first person to perform a backflip on … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just published the first post in a four-part series on “Ways To Help Our Students Become Better Readers” over at Education Week Teacher. This column includes contributions from Stephen Krashen and Richard Allington. It should be an excellent series. Read More...
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“The Onion,” the satirical news site, can often times be mean-spirited and in bad taste. But sometimes it can sure be funny, too! Here are my picks for The Best Education Articles From “The Onion.” Please let me know which … Continue reading → Read More...
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CNN ran this video today discussion the use of “facial coding for Super Bowl Ads.” It’s a process advertising agencies use to determine emotional responses to commercials. Each year after the Super Bowl I have my IB Theory of Knowledge … Continue reading Read More...
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Adam Simpson will be the host of the next ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival on March 1st, and has written an excellent post describing its theme of “Flow”: What I’m looking for in your entries for the next blog carnival are those … Continue reading → Read More...
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Go To Parent/Teacher Conferences Or Get Your TANF Benefits Cut-Off, Says D.C. Council Member is the title of a new post I’ve written at my other blog, Engaging Parents In School. You might be interested in reading about this awful … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve just made a ton of revisions to The Best Sites Where Students Can Learn About Inventions. I haven’t gone though it completely, but was able to delete a fair number of dead links and added quite a few new … Continue reading → Read More...
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I have a large collection of resources at The Best Sites To Learn About U.S. Presidential Elections. I put it together for the 2008 Presidential election, but about half of the links there would be very relevant to this year’s … Continue reading → Read More...
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As regular readers know, each semester I have students in my classes use anonymous evaluation forms to rate the class and my teaching. You can see previous reports at My Best Posts On Students Evaluating Classes (And Teachers), where I … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn About The Super Bowl: Behind the Scenes at Puppy Bowl VIII is a New York Times slideshow. The Wall Street Journal has its annual interactive review of … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m going to have my combined Intermediate/Beginning English Language Learner class write research essays on the planets in our solar system (see The Best Sites For Learning About Planets & Space). So, today, before our Super Bowl party begins, I … Continue Read More...
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The happy secret to better work is a short TED video that has a lot relevance to the classroom. I’m adding this post to My Best Posts On Why It’s Important To Be Positive In Class. Read More...
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I’ve just revised and updated The Best Collections Of Web 2.0 Tools For Education. Feel free to suggest ones I’ve missed. Read More...
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I’ve revised and expanded an earlier post on Saul Alinsky — the organizer who is being demonized by Newt Gingrich and who started the organization for whom I worked for many years — and turned it into The Best Sites … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are some new additions to The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn About The Super Bowl: The 13 Best Super Bowl Plays of All-Time Top Ten Super Bowl Plays Top 10 most viral Super Bowl commercials of all time … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just revised and updated The Best Ways For Advanced ELL’s & Non-ELL’s To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly (For Their Classmates & Teacher To See). Feedback is welcome. Read More...
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Being Ranked Can Reduce IQ is the headline of an article in The Wall Street Journal about a study that’s been receiving a fair amount of media attention this week. The Journal article is the best one — by far … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m preparing a “The Best…” list on flight, but I just saw this video over at Michelle Henry’s great site — it’s so good I decided not to wait to share it: Read More...
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February is Black History Month in the United States. I’ve just revised and updated The Best Websites To Teach & Learn About African-American History. Here are just a few of the new additions: Teaching Resources for Black History Month on … Continue reading Read More...
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As you may, or may not, have known, the Contact Form on this blog hasn’t been working very well since I got a new theme. However, Ronnie Burt from Edublogs has it all fixed up now, so feel free to … Continue reading → Read More...
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Slideshare has just released this slideshow looking at 2011 through the lens of presentations. It’s fairly interesting: SlideShare Zeitgeist 2011 View more presentations from Rashmi Sinha Read More...
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A recent experiment has been in the news these days. As the BBC writes: Scientists have unveiled a new technique for decoding human brainwaves and then converting them into speech. The technique may one day make it possible to communicate … Continue reading Read More...
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More winter weather, Punxsutawney Phil predicts in 2012…. Here are more additions to The Best Resources For Groundhog Day: 6 things most people don’t know about Groundhog Day comes from the Mother Nature Network. 7 Things You Didn’t Know About … Continue Read More...
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The Super Bowl is coming up, and I’ve made some revisions to The Best Sites Where ELL’s Can Learn About The Super Bowl. There’s some fun stuff there, so you might want to check it out. Read More...
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If you’ve seen the amazing video “Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes,” (and if you haven’t, I’ve embedded it at the end of this post — you can also find it on Part Two Of The Best Videos … Continue reading → Read More...
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“You see schools where the ‘good’ kids are compliant, the ‘bad’ kids are defiant, and nobody is engaged.” That’s a quote from the Daniel Pink video I posted about earlier today. He gives a nice review (from the 79 minute … Continue reading → Read More...
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How Can We Help Our Students Become Better Readers? is the new question of the week at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses there or here in the comments section. Read More...
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The Superintendent of Montgomery County Schools in Maryland had a book discussion group with Daniel Pink last night, and posted a video of it earlier today. It’s ninety-minutes long, and I’ve only had a chance to watch/listen to the first … Continue reading Read More...
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Today is the 52nd anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-Ins. I’ve just updated The Best Sites To Learn About The Greensboro Sit-Ins. Additional suggestions are welcome. Read More...
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Remember the climactic scene in the movie “Spartacus” where all the captured slaves say, “I am Spartacus” to avoid having the Romans find the real one? Well, I had a Spartacus deja vu moment in class today. A student named … Continue reading → Read More...
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