February’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 1,541 Of Them
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,541 of them categorized here):
The Best Free Online Tools For ELLs To Use For Assessing Their Language-Level
The Best Teaching/Learning Resources On The Musical, “Hamilton”
The Best Resources For Learning About The Zika Virus
Part 3 – Best Resources For Learning About Flint Water Crisis
Part 4 – Best Resources For Learning About Flint Water Crisis
Part 5 – Best Resources For Learning About Flint Water Crisis
The Best Videos Explaining Gravitational Waves (In An Accessible Way)
The Best Commentaries On Sci-Hub, The Tool Providing Access to 50 Million Academic Papers For Free
My All-Time Favorite Posts!
The “Best” Lists Of Recommendations About What “Effective” Teachers Do
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).
You can also see my all-time favorites here.
Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this past month (not in any order of preference). There are a lot of them this month:
“How To Use Data – & How Not To Use It – In Schools”
Two New Useful Writing Resources
Statistic Of The Day: Explicit Teaching Of Grammar Is Not A Winner – What Do You Think Is?
New “Open eBooks” App Unveiled By White House Looks Like A HUGE Benefit To Students & Schools
Google Docs Expands Voice-Typing Ability Expanding Language-Learning Possibilities
New Study Finds That Most Kids Don’t Think Collective Punishment Is Fair – Here’s What I Do Instead
“Changing Your Mind” Is Title Of My Latest NY Times Interactive For ELLs
“Human” Is Impressive Video Series Of Personal Stories From Around The World
“Photos For Class” Is My Favorite Site For Finding Images
Student Instructions For How They Can Create A Cloze (Gap-Fill)
Nice YouTube Channel For University Of California Science Animations
I Did A Presentation Today On The Concept Attainment Instructional Strategy – Here Are My Materials
Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations
New Study Documents The Power Of Teacher Collaboration
Video: “Better Call Saul” Scene Illustrates The Limitations Of Grit
How My Students Evaluated Me This Semester
I am constantly adding new resources to my over 1,500 categorized “Best Lists.
I also regularly “cull” through the lists to weed-out dead links, but haven’t been very systematic about doing that task.
So, I’ve started to go through them and highlight the ones that I’ve gotten around to completely cleaning-up and revising.
Here are a list of them from this month (you can see previous compilations here):
The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)
The Best Sites For Grammar Practice
The Best Websites For Intermediate Readers
The Best Websites For Students Exploring Jobs & Careers
The Best Hans Rosling Videos
The “All-Time” Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly
The Best Sites For Making Crossword Puzzles & Hangman Games
The Best Music Websites For Learning English
The Best Resources For The World Day Of Social Justice
The Best Tools For Creating Clozes (Gap-Fills)
The Best Web Tools That Show You Objects To Scale
The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
The Best Tools For Making Online Timelines
The Best Websites For Learning About Natural Disasters
Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)
The Best Online Resources To Learn About King Tut
The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
The Best Tools For Cutting-Out & Saving Portions Of Online Videos
The Best Tools For Making Screencasts
The Best Ways To Create Online Tests
The Best Sites To Learn About Climate Change.
The Best Teacher Resource Sites For Social Justice Issues
The Best Resources For World Read Aloud Day
The Best Images Taken In Space
The Best Sites To Learn About The U.S. Supreme Court
The Best Sites For Creating Sentence Scrambles
The Best Resources On Japanese-American Internment In World War II
The Best Online Resources To Learn About Charles Darwin
The Best Map-Making Sites On The Web
The Best Sites For Learning About United Nations Day
The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day
The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Math, Social Studies, & Science
The Best Resources On The 2016 Rio Olympics
The Best Sites For Free ESL/EFL Hand-Outs & Worksheets
Best Resources For Teaching About Rosa Parks & 60th Anniversary Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Best Resources For International Mother Language Day
The Best Resources For Learning About Rube Goldberg Machines
The Best Sites For Learning About Forest Fires
The Best Websites To Teach & Learn About African-American History
The Best Resources For Groundhog Day
The Best Sites To Learn About The Greensboro Sit-Ins
The Best Sites To Learn About Saul Alinsky
The Best Resources About Presidents’ Day
The Best Places For Students To Learn About…Their Names
The Best Online “Explainer” Tools For Current Events
The Best Places To Find Free (And Good) Lesson Plans On The Internet
The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
