July’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 1,594 Of Them
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,594 of them categorized here).
“All-Time” Best Web Tools For English Language Learners
The Best Resources For Learning & Teaching About The Juno Spacecraft
The Best Resources For Learning About Bastille Day
The Best Explanations For Why You Shouldn’t Say “All Lives Matter”
A Collection Of Advice On Talking To Students About Race, Police & Racism
A Beginning Resource Collection On Pokemon Go & Education
Useful Resources For Educators On #AltonSterling , #PhilandoCastile & Dallas Shootings
The Best Resources On The Value Of Positive “Self-Talk”
The Best Resources For Learning About Mindfulness In The Classroom
My Favorite Posts In 2016 — So Far
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:
New Resources On Teaching Reading & Writing
KQED Interviews Me About Saul Alinsky & His Connection To Teaching
Completed Revised Plan For Theory Of Knowledge Essay – With Lots Of Examples & Resources Included
Here Is My Revised Six-Week Plan For TOK Oral Presentations, Including A Zillion Examples & Resources
“Q & A Collections: Using Tech In The Classroom”
“Owl Eyes” Lets Students Read & Annotate, Plus Teachers Can Create Free Virtual Classrooms
“Q & A Collections: Project-Based Learning”
Here’s The “Homework” I’m Planning For My Theory Of Knowledge Class – Help Me Make It Better
Opportunities & Dangers Of Big New Growth Mindset Study
President Obama & “Agency”
The Difference Between Information & Knowledge
The Physical & Psychological Impacts Of Racism
Absolutely Amazing Video For The Rio Paralympics: “We’re The Superhumans”
“Q & A Collections: Teaching Social Studies”
“Q & A Collections: Best Ways To Begin & End The School Year”
“Book Deserts” In Many Of Our Students’ Neighborhoods
Animatron Is A New Site Where Students Can Create Online Animations – With Voiceovers!
Postal Service Issues Jaime Escalante Stamp Today
Video & Transcript: President Obama At Dallas Memorial Service
“Guess What!” Is A Great “New” Game – Plus, ELLs Can Create A Video For An Authentic Audience
Good Classroom Management Advice For Everybody
“Q & A Collections: Race & Gender Challenges”
“Q & A Collections: Implementing The Common Core”
Free Resources From All My Books
2,600 Categorized Resources For IB Theory Of Knowledge Classes
“The History Project” Looks Like A Neat New Tool For Creating Timelines
A Visit To Your School From Michelle Obama Raises Student Achievement – What About Other Speakers?
“Pairprep” Lets Students Compete Against A Friend (Or Themselves) & Lets Teachers Monitor Progress
Video: “What Does Your Accent Say About You?”
“Word Bucket” Lets Students Learn Vocabulary In A New Language & Teachers Can Set Up Virtual Classrooms
“Q & A Collections: Student Motivation & Social Emotional Learning”
“Finding Dory,” Growth Mindset & Grit
My “best and worst education news in 2016 — so far” Published In Wash. Post
“Epic!” Provides 15,000 eBooks, Plus Virtual Classrooms, For Free
Major Review Of Research Reinforces Findings That Exercise Helps Learning
Google Unveils Lots Of New Ed Projects, Including Opening “Expeditions” To Everybody
“American English” Site From U.S. Department Of State Has Developed Into Great Resource For ELL Teachers
Studies: Attendance & Passing Classes More Important Than Test Scores
I am constantly adding new resources to my nearly 1,600 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 Sites To Learn About Los Angeles
The Best Resources For Learning About Human Trafficking Today
The Best Sites To Learn About The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
The Best Places To Create (And Find) Internet Scavenger Hunts & Webquests
The Best Resources On Malala Yousafzai
The Best Spelling Sites
The Best Websites To Learn About Hmong Culture & History
The Best Websites For Learning & Teaching Geography
The Best Online Resources For Drivers Education & Car Information
The Best Sites For Learning About Volcanoes
The Best Resources For Learning About Our World’s Population Of 7 Billion
The Best Sites To Learn About Canada
The Best Resources For Learning About World War I
The Best Sites For Discussing The Morality Of Torture
The Best Websites For Learning About Multiple Holidays & Anniversaries