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Thursday, September 26, 2013

9-26-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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







September’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


Delightful Video: Jimmy Fallon, Sesame Street & The Roots Sing “Sesame Street”
You just have to watch this delightful video:


Cabrera Capital and TRS.
Just a quick update. When we are told that TRS did not contract with Cabrera Capital as a broker, that is technically true. Portfolio managers contract with the brokers. TRS publishes here all their contracted portfolio managers. And also here is the list of brokers. It seems to me that this is a case of parsing words. To say that TRS does not contract with Cabrera Capital is true. Although they a



NY Times Begins Very Helpful Regular Feature — “Text To Text”
The New York Times Learning Network has just begun a regular feature that I suspect is going to be very helpful to teachers — it’s called “Text To Text.” Here’s how they describe it: it is just what it sounds like: we’ll be pairing two written texts that we think “speak” to each other in interesting ways, and supplying a few questions and ideas for working with the two together. One of the excerp
Two New Ways To Create Geography Games
Here are two new additions to The Best Online Geography Games: At Quiz Geo, you can easily create your own geography game as well as play ones created by others. It didn’t seem to work for me on Firefox, though, and I could only play it on the Google Chrome Browser. Class Tools lets you easily create a Map “treasure hunt” with no registration necessary. Thanks to Google Maps Mania for the tip.
September’s (2013) Best Tweets — Part Four
Every month I make a few short lists 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. 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 this post. If you don’t use Twit

9-25-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “American History Handbook” Is A Useful ResourceThe right way to teach history i the title of a new post at Valerie Strauss’ post at The Washington Post. It’s by Marion Brady, and I plan on using the post itself in my IB Theory of Knowledge class — he shares an insightful perspective on the purposes of studying history. Her