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May 2012 - Posts
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“My Galaxies” lets you spell out anything you want, using real galaxies that are shaped like characters. You can read more about it at the site and/or at this MSNBC story. The site does what I describe — you write … Continue reading → Read More...
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How Can We Help Students Develop Good Habits? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave responses here or there…. Read More...
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Google just announced today the unveiling of The World Wonders Project. Here’s how they describe it: The World Wonders Project enables you to discover 132 historic sites from 18 countries, including Stonehenge, the archaeological areas of Pompeii and Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Beginning iPhone Users Like Me: A Guide to Deciphering the Language of Smartphones is from The New York Times. SlickFlick looks like it might be a very useful storytelling application. … Continue reading Read More...
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Alexander Russo shared this chart today, observing that “That long dark blue line second from the bottom is the USA, one of just two advanced industrial nations with a child poverty rate above 20 percent.” I’m adding it to The … Continue reading → Read More...
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FlashIssue is a new free tool that lets you easily create email newsletters. I’m adding it to The Best Applications For Creating Free Email Newsletters. Here’s a video about it: Read More...
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Yesterday, I published How I’m Helping My Students Try To Avoid The “Summer Slide” and shared several free and easy sites that my students will be using for a virtual “summer school.” They all were sites where I was able … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve previously posted The Best Resources On The “Summer Slide” and how I’m going to make that information into a lesson for my students. I’m also doing more than that — at least with students in my Beginning/Intermediate ESL class. … Continue reading Read More...
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Here’s a compilation of recent good posts on education policy: Education and the income gap: Darling-Hammond appeared in The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher & Outside Factors Have On Student … Continue Read More...
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Today’s New York Times has a fairly lengthy article headlined Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era. It’s thesis is that young people are spending too much time on screens, including television and computers. In addition, with the increased … Continue Read More...
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Matthew Di Carlo from The Shanker Blog tweeted a short video of a debated on education between Albert Shanker, then president of the American Federation of Teachers and Milton Friedman, the economist who never met a question he couldn’t answer … Continue Read More...
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Several Ways To Connect With Disengaged Students is the title of my newest column over at Education Week Teacher. It includes responses from Jim Peterson, who I consider as one of my mentors, and author Mike Anderson. Read More...
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I’ve previously posted about the Zeigarnik Effect (see What Is The “Zeigarnik Effect” & How Did I Apply It In The Classroom Today?). It basically means that once we start doing something, we’re going to tend to want to finish … Continue reading → Read More...
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Author Daniel Pink has written a lot about “Fed Ex Days” and describes it this way: One of the best ideas I’ve heard in the last 10 years is the FedEx Day. Created by the Australian software company Atlassian,FedEx Days give people 24 … Continue reading Read More...
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I have many free resources, including excerpts and student hand-outs, available from all my books. Clicking on the covers will lead you to them: Read More...
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Film Story is an interactive site where you can search for theatrical films by geographical location, history or science subject, historical era, and film type. It seems like an exhaustive list and is very accessible. I’m adding it to The … Continue reading Read More...
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I suspect many of will be watching “the Venus transit of the sun on June 5 (June 6 in much of the Eastern Hemisphere). Venus will cross the sun’s face from Earth’s perspective, appearing in silhouette as a tiny, slow-moving … Continue reading → Read More...
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Sue Waters has done it again with an extraordinary post titled The Educator’s Guide to Instagram and Other Photo Apps. She shares everything you’d possibly need to know about them. You might also be interested in The Best Tools For … Continue reading Read More...
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Teaching Secrets: The Last Day of School is a piece I wrote a few years ago for Education Week, and it still holds true — for me, at least. I thought readers might find it useful in case you haven’t … Continue reading → Read More...
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Nearly one million students in five hundred United Kingdom schools are registered in a program that provides “iPods, DVD players and shopping vouchers” if they do their homework and behave well. If this article is accurate, and I have no … Continue reading Read More...
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Each year for the past three years I’ve used the same “final exam” in my mainstream and ESL English classes, and they’ve gone amazingly well. I describe the process, including providing downloadable hand-outs, here at my original blog post about … Continue Read More...
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Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 907 of them categorized here): The Best Resources For Learning About May Day The Best Images Of The Ring Of Fire Eclipse The … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology: Guess What’s the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years is from The Atlantic. The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph is also … Continue reading → Read More...
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One of my final weekly columns this school year over at Education Week Teacher (I’ll be posting compilations of previous posts on similar topics during the summer and then re-start new ones in the fall) will be on helping students … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day: The McClatchy Newspapers have a useful interactive. Drawing Warriors is a great NY Times video: Memorial Day 1911-1929 is a photo gallery from The LA Times. Read More...
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Alfie Kohn shared a video on Twitter this morning that a Nebraska school district posted on YouTube as a good example of how a teacher should talk with a student in preparing for a standardized test. This was his tweet: … Continue reading → Read More...
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Raven Tales was a Canadian television series featuring animated Native American folktales. It’s no longer on TV, but there are plenty of them available on YouTube, and the Smithsonian Channel has an episode guide. I’m adding it to A Beginning … Continue Read More...
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Voice Of America has long been known for its many English-learning features, especially what they called “Special English.” However, relatively recently (I can’t be sure exactly when, but I just discovered it today) they dramatically redesigned and expanding Read More...
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I’ve previously written an article sharing tips on working with students in the computer lab. One relatively minor issue, though, that I sometimes still have to contend with is a small number of students “sneaking” to an ethnic music page … Continue reading Read More...
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I’m a big fan of Instagram (see The Web 2.0/Social Media Tools I Use Everyday & How I Use Them), and I sure hope Facebook doesn’t mess it up. Instgram itself doesn’t have a way to display photos on the … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m a big fan of using photos (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons) in lessons, along with videos (see The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)). Today, I read the best summary … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Golden Gate Bridge will be seventy-five years old on May 27th. I figured it was a good time to create a “The Best…” list. You might also be interested in: The Best Images Of Spectacular Bridges (& How Students … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Smithsonian, in conjunction with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, has just unveiled Preparing For The Oath. Not only is it now probably the best site out there for preparing people to take the U.S. Citizenship exam, it’s also just … Continue Read More...
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How Can We Best Respond To A Student Who Is Disengaged? is the new question of the week at my Education Week Teacher blog. Feel free to respond there or here. Read More...
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Edutopia has just published a newsletter titled Project-Based Learning: Success Start to Finish. It has tons of resources and links. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Cooperative Learning Ideas. Read More...
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Regular readers of this blog are well aware of my concerns about using extrinsic rewards. Here’s another great example of why they can be so damaging… Michael Sandel has recently written a book about the values of the market invading … Continue reading Read More...
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Asking the right questions is an essential part of effective teaching and learning. A reader recently asked me if I had a specific “The Best…” list on the topic, so I thought it would be a good idea to bring … Continue reading → Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest This quote comes from yesterday’s New York Times column by Joe Nocera — his account of an interview with Bill Gates on Education. It seems a bit odd to me, and often I can’t … Continue reading → Read More...
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Sarah D. Sparks over at Education has just posted a short summary of a series of new papers on Student Motivation: An Overlooked Piece of School Reform. I just took a quick look at the summary and, though I’m not … Continue reading → Read More...
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ASCD Express has just published Two Challenges in Teaching ELLs: Primary Language Use and Book Selection, an excerpt from my upcoming book (co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski), “The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Read More...
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I’ve just posted Factors Behind The Success Of Ontario’s Schools — Part Two over at my Education Week Teacher column. It includes a commentary from Canadian Professor Michael Fullan. Read More...
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Explore.org has set-up webcams in numerous “wild places” where you can view them live from your computer — pandas, polar bears, forests, etc. You can also read more about them in this MSNBC article. Read More...
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Last night, I had the privilege of seeing the “Ring Of Fire” eclipse, also known as an annular eclipse – “a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and sun, blocks most, but not all, of the … Continue reading → Read More...
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Factors Behind The Success Of Ontario’s Schools — Part One is the title of my newest post at Education Week Teacher. It includes guest responses from the President of the Canadian teachers’ union, a vice-principal, and two parent leaders. Read More...
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A Significant Error That Policymakers Commit is a new post by Larry Cuban that I’m sure will be a candidate for the best educational commentary of the year. In it, he discusses differences between “good” teaching and “successful” teaching, and … Continue Read More...
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Usually, I just do a weekly “round-up” of these kinds of posts and articles, but I have a backlog: Does the Common Core Matter? appeared in Education Week. I’m adding it to The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core … Continue reading → Read More...
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Yesterday, I posted about Jay Mathews at The Washington Post including our high school in his list of top high schools in the United States — Washington Post Ranks Our High School Among Top Ten Percent In U.S. This was … Continue reading → Read More...
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May 22nd has been named The International Day for Biological Diversity by the United Nations. In the United States, May 21st was designated Endangered Species Day by Congress. I’ve just updated The Best Resources For World Biodiversity Day (& Endangered Read More...
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Type in any name or topic into 25 Trends and you’ll get a neat visualization with links to related tweets. It seems useful and accessible. I’m adding it to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password. By … Continue reading → Read More...
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Yes, rankings and schools are not a good mix. They can be easily manipulated in the worst ways. Given all that, there are some lists I’d rather our school be on than not. And being named today on The Washington … Continue reading → Read More...
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Stanford has created what I suspect is the coolest thing I’m going to see today — a Google Maps-like tool that lets you map the fastest and cheapest ways (by donkey is one option) and routes to travel (including how … Continue reading → Read More...
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We only have a few more weeks of school left, and I’m hoping I again survive next week’s annual field trip where I take 110 students to San Francisco from 6:00 AM to 11:30 PM. Don’t expect much blog or … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’m a longtime fan of “alternate history,” and last year was thrilled to read about how some teachers applied that concept in their classes. This is how Carla Federman (who borrowed the idea from Diana Laufenberg) introduced her lesson to … Continue reading Read More...
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The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) has just unveiled a newly-designed website. Here’s how it describes the site: NCELA is proud to present our newly designed website (still at www.ncela.gwu.edu) that combines high-quality Read More...
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Bill Moyers has just published a collection of twenty-one historical protest songs, including videos of artists performing them. There are also many additional suggestions included in the comments on his post. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning Read More...
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There has been a lot of research on the role of exercise in helping learning, and I’ve gathered much of it in The Best Resources On How Exercise Helps Learning. And, now, there’s one more study to back up the … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are a few recent posts/articles on motivation: Dan Pink on Why “Passion” Doesn’t Matter appeared in The Huffington Post. Hospital pay incentives fail to help patients: study appeared in Reuters. My Colleague, My Paymaster appeared in The Wall Street Read More...
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I’ve often written in this post and in my books about how I use the “marshmallow test” in lessons on self-control (see The Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control). Today, Sarah Sparks at Education Week has … Continue Read More...
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The Benefits of Being Bilingual is a new column by Jonah Lehrer at Wired that provides a good overview of recent research on the topic. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning The Advantages To Being Bilingual. By … Continue reading → Read More...
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Slide.ly is a brand new site that is still closed to the public (but you can find an invite if, as I did, you just search for “Slide.ly + invites” on the Web and you’ll find a number of tech … Continue reading → Read More...
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I’ve just updated The Best Map-Making Sites On The Web. Feel free to suggest others not on the list. Read More...
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We only have four more weeks of school, and I’ll be doing a short lesson with my students on the “summer slide” and what they can do to prevent it. I’ve updated The Best Resources On The “Summer Slide,” and … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today, Google announced a new feature they’re calling “Knowledge Graph.” I’m still having a little bit of a hard time understanding why it’s such a big deal. Basically, it seems that if you search for a popular topic (like “George … Continue reading Read More...
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What’s Going On In Ontario’s Schools? is the newest “question of the week” for my Education Week Teacher column. I added “Redux” to the title here because I asked the same question last month on this blog — What’s Going … Continue reading → Read More...
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Edutopia just published “Fostering Relationships in the Classroom,” another excerpt from my upcoming book on teaching English Language Learners. The book (“The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching Read More...
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Venngage is the newest easy tool for creating online infographics. Like several other sites on The Best Resources For Creating Infographics list, it has a number of templates where you just add your info, click publish, and you get an … Continue reading Read More...
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I’m doing a unit on writing a story with my Beginning English Language Learners, and, since I’m taking them to the computer lab tomorrow, I wanted to see if I could pull together some useful online interactives for them. I’m … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s a good and short video from the youngest person to ever climb Everest =- he talks about setting goals. I’m adding it to both The Best Sites For Learning About Mount Everest and to The Best Posts On Students … Continue reading → Read More...
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Zoho just announced Zolo Sites, a super-easy “drag-and-drop” website builder. It doesn’t get much easier to create a nice-looking website. You can read more about it at TechCrunch, and you can watch the video below. I’m adding it to The … Continue reading Read More...
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Here are two excellent videos called “Epic time-lapse map of Europe.” The first one is shorter and doesn’t have dates and other annotations while the second one is longer and has both: Read More...
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Helping Long-Term ELL’s & Evaluating ELL Teachers Fairly is my newest Education Week Teacher column. I think it includes a lot of useful information… Read More...
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I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, … Continue reading Read More...
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Bilingualism Across The U.S. is a useful infographic I’m embedding below (I’m not sure if it will show up in an RSS Reader, so you might have to click through). I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning The … Continue reading → Read More...
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Storytelling advice from Joss Whedon, Stephen King, Salman Rushdie, Doris Lessing, Scott Simon, Damon Lindelof and a machine is a collection of videos offering good…storytelling advice. I’m adding it to The Best Digital Storytelling Resources, where I Read More...
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There are now exactly 900 “The Best…” lists — categorized and regularly updated. That’s a lot of lists Read More...
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I periodically post about examples of my own ignorance, and now have another opportunity to do so…. As a self-styled quasi-expert on intrinsic motivation (see my book “Helping Students Motivate Themselves” and my list, The Best Posts & Articles On … Continue Read More...
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The Pacific Standard reports on a study that suggests there is connecting between being a regular reader and staying thin. Here are some excerpts: A scale that measures interest in ideas, art, and knowledge—by surveying the amount of time spent … Continue Read More...
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Helping students strengthen their understanding of metacognition — thinking about their thinking — is an important goal of my teaching. And I’ve written a lot about it. I thought it would be helpful to gather all of those posts in … Continue reading Read More...
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Google just unveiled a new iPhone app for Google+ , and TechCrunch likes it — With Its New Google+ App, Google Finally Gets It Right. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning What Google+ Is All About. Read More...
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Author Grant Wiggins’ recently published a lengthy critique of the use of Value Added Measures for teacher evaluation — Value added – why its use makes me angry (OR: a good idea gone bad, again, in education). I learned about … Continue reading → Read More...
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I was looking through the California Department of Education website to see their parent engagement resources, and found that they had “Parent Handbooks” for each class content area. Each one is full of ideas about how parents can help their … Continue Read More...
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Celebrating Motherhood in Pictures is a slideshow from Smithsonian Magazine. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Mother’s Day. Read More...
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Infogr.am looks like a pretty easy tool for creating infographics that can be linked to or embedded. The selection of templates is pretty limited, but the site is still in beta. The main problem with the site is that you … Continue reading → Read More...
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Paws In Jobland is an excellent interactive site for young people to explore careers. It’s designed for younger students, and is also very accessible for English Language Learners of all ages. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Students … Continue Read More...
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Pinside is a very easy to use online “corkboard” or “bulletin board” where you can “pin” notes with text and images and then mix them around on the board. The problem, though, is that there is no way (or, at … Continue reading → Read More...
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My book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves (and its sequel, which is my summer project), is full of lessons to help students…motivate themselves, including ones on self-control and taking personal responsibility. I’ve just figured out something that Read More...
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A Russian weather satellite has taken one of the most high-resolution images of earth available. Here’s a video of multiple still images stitched together, and you can see a lot, and learn how it’s done, at the Daily Mail. I’m … Continue reading → Read More...
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On my popular The Best Online Sources For Images list, I briefly describe how to search for images on Google that are licensed for “reuse.” Google says if you use it, its “results will only include pages that are either … Continue reading → Read More...
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Today’s “Pickles” comic strip has many applications to education. Often, in the classroom, we might see a issue needing a solution — a student needing to develop a greater capacity for self-control, a reluctant reader, etc. — and wonder why … Continue Read More...
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An interviewer went around New York City to ask various people to say thank you to their mother. I’m adding this to The Best Sites For Learning About Mother’s Day. Read More...
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Last week, I posted about Webagram as a new tool that lets you see Instagram photos on the Web. Today, I learned about a similar service called Pinstagram. I haven’t yet had a chance to compare the two, but Read … Continue reading → Read More...
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Yesterday, archeologists announced the discovery of Mayan art and calculations on walls of a collapsed room. Because of the big “media splash” made by the announcement, and because of my own personal interest in the Maya (I’ve visited many Mayan … Continue Read More...
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There are lots of “writing rules” around from well-known authors, and I thought it would be useful to bring them together in one list. I’m sure I’ve missed some, so feel free to make suggestions! Here is, as far as … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are two new additions to The Best Posts, Articles & Videos About Learning From Mistakes & Failures: When Have You Ever Failed at Something? What Happened as a Result? is from The New York Times Learning Network. Sowing Failure, … Continue reading Read More...
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Valerie Strauss’ piece at The Washington Post, What Romney should have said to schoolchildren about his ‘prank’ and bullying, is clearly the best thing I’ve seen written today about the revelations about Mitt Romney’s bullying activities in high school. Read More...
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Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest The above quote is from a BBC article titled “Does Money Really Motivate People?” It provides more evidence that extrinsic motivation can be successful for routine tasks, but not for work requiring higher-order Read More...
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The Olympic Torch for the London Olympics has just been lit in Greece. Here are some resources about it that I’m adding to The Best Sites For Learning About The London 2012 Olympics: London 2012: Olympic Games flame lit in … Continue reading → Read More...
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The Easy Way Test uses Google’s speech recognition system to have you learn English through playing an online game. It only works on Chrome, and could be a fun little diversion for a short time. The designers were pretty creative. … Continue reading Read More...
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Put Your Rage Into a Cartoon and Exit Laughing is a New York Times article tonight about the Web genre of “rage comics” — people using easy online tools to vent about irritating incidents they experience. The article particularly highlights … Continue Read More...
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The British Council has just unveiled a new site called Learn English Teens. It’s targeting English Language Learners who are….teenagers. Learn English Teens has some particularly good games. I’m adding that page to The Best Learning Games For Intermediate Read More...
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How Do We Help Long-Term ELL’s & How Does Having ELL’s Affect A Teacher’s Evaluation? are the two questions of the week at my Education Week Teacher column. I’m trying something a little different this week and having two questions … Continue reading Read More...
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I have an extended lesson plan in my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, on helping students learn to take personal responsibility and blame others less. In addition, I have a related “The Best..” list called The Best Resources For Helping … Continue Read More...
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Wisconsin voters today chose Tom Barrett to oppose Governor Scott Walker in the recall vote one month away. Along with that NY Times article about the election, the Times produced a very useful Timeline: The Wisconsin Labor Fight. I’m adding … Continue Read More...
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Fred Astaire supposed called this performance “the greatest dance number ever filmed.” Thanks to The Kid Should See This for the tip. Read More...
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Here’s an interesting infographic that I’m adding to The Best Sites That Show Statistics By Reducing The World & The U.S. To 100 People. Though it doesn’t cite its sources, it sounds about right to me. Let me know if … Continue reading → Read More...
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Save The Children has come out with a report, “State of the World’s Mothers 2012.” Here are several media resources highlighting its results: Best and Worst Countries for Moms is a slideshow from the PBS News Hour. Report: Best and … Continue reading Read More...
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Several Classroom Management Ideas For Younger Students is my newest post at Education Week Teacher, and includes guest responses from Jane Ching Fung, Mathew Needleman and Tom Hobson. You might find it useful…. Read More...
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If you use Instagram on your smartphone to take photos, you can display your photos by automatically uploading them to Flickr or to Facebook. Webagram is another new way to display your photos on the Web. Once you register, it … Continue reading → Read More...
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Being able to have one place where all students can upload photos from a field trip can come in handy, and uSnap.us makes it breeze. It joins several similar tools at The Best Resources For Learning About Effective Student & … Continue reading → Read More...
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What I believe is the best piece yet published on teacher evaluation was made public this morning. You can download Linda Darling Hammond’s Creating A Comprehensive System For Evaluating and Supporting Effective Teaching at the website of the Stanford Read More...
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Today, during National Teacher Appreciation Week, President Obama chose to issue a proclamation calling it National Charter Schools Week. Chris Lehmann echoed my thoughts, and I’m sure the thoughts of many other public school educators, in his post today, Read More...
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A few days ago, both Daniel Willingham and Robert Pondiscio — two thinkers and educators whose opinions I value highly — wrote posts critical of the use (or, perhaps, the over-use) of teaching reading strategies to students. They both suggest … Continue Read More...
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How To Get Started With Google+ Hangouts On Air is a good “how to” post from Read Write Web. Today, Google announced that their Hangouts on Google+ were going worldwide. These are video presentations that are automatically streamed on Google+ … Continue Read More...
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BrainFacts.org was unveiled today. It’s “a project of the Kavli Foundation, the Gatsy Charitable Foundation, and the Society for Neuroscience, which launched today. It aspires to be a comprehensive, authoritative site for information about all things Read More...
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The US History Teachers Blog by Ken Halla seems like a very useful resource for anyone teaching U.S. History. He posts a lot of useful resources. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Teaching & Learning About U.S. History. … Continue reading → Read More...
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Memplai looks like a good online video editor that can incorporate photos and videos. Thanks to Alan Levine for the tip. I’m adding it to Not The “Best,” But A List… Of Online Video Editors. Read More...
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The Supermoon was tonight, and here are some explanations and images: Photos: Supermoon around the world comes from The Denver Post. Look Up: Tonight, ‘Supermoon’ Is Closer To Earthis from NPR. ‘Supermoon’ rises around the world is from MSNBC. How … Continue Read More...
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Here are some new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Nelson Mandela: The Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project is an amazing resource. Here’s Mandela’s first television interview. You can learn more about it at Open Culture. Read More...
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I.Q. Points for Sale, Cheap is a New York Times column today that echoes a critique I wrote about a previous New York Times article that I described as “a relatively useless — if not harmful — experiment to increase … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Sites For Teaching & Learning About Cinco de Mayo: Remember, Remember, The Fifth Of May is a very good NY Times article on Cinco de Mayo. Rethinking Cinco de Mayo is from … Continue reading → Read More...
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Here’s the Best Time to Share on Pinterest is a new post from Mashable. Researchers say Saturday morning is the best time. Their post also shows a slideshow with the 15 most popular photos shared on the site. I’m adding … Continue reading → Read More...
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In honor of Cinco de Mayo (see The Best Sites For Teaching & Learning About Cinco de Mayo) here’s a short excerpt from PBS’s profile of America’s first all-female mariachi band, Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles: Read More...
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Here are two timelines of educational technology that I’m adding to The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology: Ed Tech Timeline Evolution of Classroom Technology is from Larry Cuban’s blog. Read More...
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Earlier today, I posted about a new simple way to create infographics (see “Easel.ly” Is Clearly The Easiest Tool For Creating Infographics). Later in the day I read about a new study on the learning impact of using data visualization, … Continue reading Read More...
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Edublogs is inviting educators to take a short State of Educational Use of Blogs 2012 Survey. It doesn’t matter what blogging platform you use, and it seems to me that survey results could be very helpful and interesting. It only … Continue reading → Read More...
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Thanks to Nik Peachey, today I learned about Easel.ly today, which is hands-down the easiest tool I’ve seen on the Web to create infographics. You just “drag-and-drop” a variety of themes, type in your data, and you’ve got a great … Continue reading Read More...
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As regular readers of this blog know, I try to bring many of the skills and concepts that I learned in my nineteen year community organizing career into the classroom and into work to make educational policy changes (see The … Continue reading → Read More...
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I just received an image of my upcoming book’s front cover: Katie Hull is my co-author, and it will be published by Jossey-Bass. The book will be out in August. If you click on the cover, it will take you … Continue reading → Read More...
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Edublogs recently added a great tool to use to easily, and attractively, print-out blog posts. You’ll seed a “Print Friendly and PDF” button at the bottom of each of my blog posts now. It’s a great tool, and I assume … Continue reading → Read More...
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Assessment & Reflection With ELLs—And All Students is an excerpt from my upcoming book (co-authored by Katie Hull) that was just published in Education Week. Any feedback is welcome. Read More...
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How Can We Respond To “Unpredictable” Behavior From Younger Students? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your ideas there or here…. Read More...
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Source: pinaquote.com via Larry on Pinterest This is a quote from a very interesting article that appears in The New York Times this morning headlined Armed With Data, Fighting More Than Crime. When I first started reading it, I thought … Continue reading Read More...
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Though May Day is an ancient celebration, since the late nineteenth century it has primarily been recognized as a time to celebrate workers’ rights. Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning About May Day: May Day is … Continue reading Read More...
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I’ve just posted the third and final post in a three-part series on teaching Social Studies over at Education Week Teacher. Ed Week Readers’ Ideas On How We Can Teach Social Studies More Effectively shares both ideas from readers and … Continue reading Read More...
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Each May, I ask readers to contribute responses to the question “What Are You Going To Do Differently Next Year?” and compile them in a subsequent post (when I also share my own reflections). Sometimes I’ve turned it into an … Continue reading → Read More...
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Flickr Adds Pinterest Buttons To Photo Sharing; All Images Will Be Pinned With Attributions is a post from TechCrunch that brings welcome news to all of us who use Flickr. It will make things a lot easier. I’m adding it … Continue reading → Read More...
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Google announced today that emails in Gmail will be automatically translated: The next time you receive a message in a language other than your own, just click on Translate message in the header at the top of the message, and … Continue reading → Read More...
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There are several sites on the Web that show you various objects to school. I thought it would be useful to readers and to me to bring them all together on one list. Here are my choices for The Best … Continue reading → Read More...
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I saw a few tweets about something called the iTDi Blog, and checked it out. Boy, was I impressed! I asked Barb Hoskins Sakamoto if she would be open to writing a short description that I could post. Here is … Continue reading → Read More...
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