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Here are the latest updates for woowonenature@gmail.com "Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day..." - 10 new articles Video: “How Millions Of Migrants Are Entering Europe” Neat Video: “To Scale: The Solar System” This Week In Web 2.0 Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL Parent Engagement Resource Update The Best Ways To Use “3-2-1″ As An Instructional Strategy Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week My Latest BAM! Radio Show: “Closing the Teacher Diversity Gap: What It Takes” Columbus Day Is Coming Up – Here Are Related Resources StoryCorps Releases Helpful “Teacher Toolkit” Search Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... Prior Mailing Archive Video: “How Millions Of Migrants Are Entering Europe” I’m adding this video to The Best Sites For Learning About World Refugee Day:        • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Neat Video: “To Scale: The Solar System” I’m adding this video to The Best Web Tools That Show You Objects To Scale:        • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • This Week In Web 2.0 In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth blogging about, I've recently begin a regular feature called "The Week In Web 2.0." (you might also be interested in The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2015 – So Far). I also sometimes include tech tools that might not exactly fit the definition of Web 2.0: Tripomatic lets you create itineraries for your trips. They’ve just completed revised their site.  It’s been on The Best Sites Where Students Can Plan Virtual Trips, and is now one of the betters tools there. I learned about Biteable from Ed Tech & Mobile Learning. It seemed a bit clunky, but it’s also new, and it’s free. It would be an easy tool for students to use — it’s sort of a somewhat less sophisticated Animoto. You can’t embed the video, but it provides an easy option to upload it to YouTube. Here’s a quick video I made using it:   I’m adding it to The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Videos (Using Someone Else's Content). This next tool may, or may not, have some educational uses: When an app that created 3-D animated videos went global, Americans decided to make their own fun. By @jennydeluxe http://t.co/NMwjrbNsTQ — NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) August 27, 2015      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL © 2010 Enokson, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Two years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2015 – So Far and The Best Websites For English Language Learner Students In 2015 – So Far. Here are this week’s choices: Don’t forget that I’ve begun to publish new weekly interactives for English Language Learners at The New York Times Learning Network. A new study came out this week about how people “navigate misunderstandings.” I think, with a little work and thought, ELL teachers can use it with our students. Many are often embarrassed to ask for clarification when they don’t at first understand what is said to them in English. I wonder if we could use this study to point out that even native English speakers don’t understand what others are saying – in English — all the time! Here are two useful articles about the study: Language Correction Leads To Universal Words is from NPR. What Did You Say? is from The Atlantic. “Understanding Language” at Stanford has announced “the launch of four new online courses in October 2015. These courses cover topics including text complexity, argumentation and formative assessment, English Language Development, and constructive conversations.”  And they’re free… This is interesting, though I can’t vouch for its accuracy: ELL writing skills: Cultural patterns stand out. Ten Ways to Introduce Target Language is from ELT Experiences.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Parent Engagement Resource Update © 2005 fhwrdh, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Readers may, or may not, know that I also write another blog called Engaging Parents In School and that I’ve written a book titled Building Parent Engagement In Schools. I’ve been pretty busy the past few months, but have been able to continue posts a weekly collection of parent engagement-related resources at that blog, which you might find useful. In addition, you can access all my parent engagement-related “Best” lists here.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • The Best Ways To Use “3-2-1″ As An Instructional Strategy © 2010 Surian Soosay, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Creating lessons and assignments using a “three-two-one” strategy is fairly common among classrooms. One advantage is that using that framework makes it easier for both students and teacher to remember what everybody is supposed to do! Here are some variations that I’ve previously shared, used and/or written about — feel free to contribute your own in the comments section: In a post titled How We Made An Excellent Speaking Activity Even Better, I described a pretty effective speaking lesson we do with English Language Learners. Three-Two-One Is A Simple & Effective Summarizing Strategy is a post inspired by the work of educator Ekuwah Moses. Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy is from Read Write Think. A simple way to get your learners to think about their thinking via @CognitionEdu pic.twitter.com/1uV0YS6TJ3 — Visible Learning (@VisibleLearning) September 19, 2015 Please contribute more!      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week © 1970 Pip R. Lagenta, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio Each week, I publish a post containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in The Best Articles (And Blog Posts) Offering Practical Advice & Resources To Teachers In 2015 – So Far. Here are this week's picks: Homework: A New User’s Guide is from NPR. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About Homework Issues. How To Teach With The Concept Attainment Model is from Teach Thought. I’m adding it to The Best Resources About Inductive Learning & Teaching. Drawing for Change: Analyzing and Making Political Cartoons is New York Times Learning Network lesson plan to help with their exciting student editorial cartoon contest.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • My Latest BAM! Radio Show: “Closing the Teacher Diversity Gap: What It Takes” In my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show (the first of the new school year), Dr. Travis J. Bristol from Stanford and discuss “Closing the Teacher Diversity Gap: What It Takes,” which is also the topic of a three-part series in my Education Week Teacher column that Dr. Bristol is “guest-hosting.” You can also listen to well over fifty previous shows I’ve done over the past year-and-a-half. You can see a linkable list, with descriptions, to all of them here.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Columbus Day Is Coming Up – Here Are Related Resources © 2014 Elliott Brown, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Columbus Day is coming up here in the United States. You’ll find a lot of useful teaching resources at The Best Online Resources About Christopher Columbus.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • StoryCorps Releases Helpful “Teacher Toolkit” I’ve previously published quite a few posts about StoryCorps, including ones on “The Great Thanksgiving Listen,” their big project for high school students to interview a “grandparent or an elder.” Last week, they released a Teacher Toolkit for The Great Thanksgiving Listen that looks like they actually had real teachers involved in creating it. It’s practical (including permission slips) and has a number of helpful lesson ideas. I think it’s worth checking-out, even if you aren’t going to use it for the Great Listen. Their app is wonderful, and the teacher materials are useful for anything related to using it with students.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments •

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