Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 1,852 of them categorized here):
“Best” Lists Of The Week: Tools For Learning About Art & Creating It
“Best” Lists Of The Week: Tools For Teaching About Economics & Jobs
The Best Ways To Use Tongue Twisters With ELLs
“Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching About Health
The Best Resources Sharing The History Of Teens Organizing For Justice
The Best Articles & Videos Showing How Parkland’s Teens Are Responding To Tragedy
The Best Resources For Teaching About Sexual Harassment
The Best Sites For Learning About The 2018 World Cup In Russia
The Best Articles & Videos Explaining Why Arming Teachers Is A Bad Idea
The Best Resources For Teaching About The Black Panther Movie
The Best Videos Explaining Confirmation Bias
Florida School Shooting Tragedy Resources, Including Advice On Talking With Students
The Best Resources For Doing Classroom Observations
The Best Tools That “Automatically” Create Presentations
The Best Tools For Creating Chatbots
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. I’ve also been doing “A Look Back” series in recognition of this blog’s eleventh anniversary this past February.
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:
One Of The More Interesting Studies You’ll Read This Year: Junk Food & Low-Income Families
Quote Of The Day: Shooting Survivor Wants Her School To Be Remembered For Starting “A Revolution”
Statistic Of The Day: The Economic & Moral Cost Of Arming Teachers
Create And/Or Translate Online Books For An Authentic Audience With StoryWeaver
Grading English Language Learners – A Perspective From Two Teachers
Diversity Of Our School’s IB Program Highlighted In Sacramento Bee
“One Met. Many Worlds” Is A Cool Multilingual Art Gallery From The Met
English Language Learners Tell Us What Helps Them Learn
“Everything you Wanted to Know About Dual Immersion but Were Afraid to ask”
“Community Organizer Turned Teacher Aims for Social Change”
Wow, The National Writing Project Offers Wonderful Online Writing Opportunity To Students
“Amazon-Day One” Offers An Exceptional Collection Of Useful Videos
Telling Stories In Class Like Abraham Lincoln
Many Of Us Teachers Will Feel Like Steve Kerr In A Month Or Two
Guest Post: Guidelines For Teachers Observing Their Peers
“Ways to ‘Navigate Conflicts & Restore Relationships’ Between Students”
“What’s the next step on the path up the mountain?”
Interesting Study On “Transfer” Reinforces Effectiveness Of “Learning By Doing”
Study Shows Positive Impact Of Ed Tech On ELLs & Students With Special Needs
Wow, “Lumen5” Looks Like An Amazingly Easy Way To Turn Blog Posts & Articles Into Videos!
We Just Finished Reviewing The Proofs Of Our Next Book On Teaching ELLs!
“The Best Ways to Resolve Conflicts Between Students”
My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On How To Make Social Studies Lessons More Exciting
Guest Post: Template For Making Teacher Comments On TOK Essays
“Beautiful[AI]” Uses Artificial Intelligence To Create Your Presentations
Great Infographic: “You’re Hired: The Skills Employers Seek in New Hires”
NY Times Video Series On “Inside An Olympian Mind” Is Jackpot For Any Teacher Using Visualizing Strategies With Students
Google Photos Will Automatically Create Music Videos With Your Pictures
Nick Foles Just Gave Teachers A Gift Of A Great SEL Lesson
“Important ‘Moves for Teacher Success’”
Impressive New Video Series On “Courageous Conversations About Race in Education”
Geography Writing Frames For ELLs (They Can Be Used In Other Subjects, Too)
Elmo Teaches The Power Of “Yet”
Part Two: Eleventh Anniversary Of This Blog – What Have Been My Most Popular Posts?
“Underutilized Teaching Ideas”
Langston Hughes Was Born On This Day In 1902 – Here Are Two Good Lessons For ELLs Using His Poetry
Very Useful PBS NewsHour Segment On If Viewers Should Separate Art From Artist In Light Of #MeToo
Padlet Now Lets You Record Audio – Zooms To The Top Of Most Useful Web 2.0 Tools For ELLs
Apester” Looks Like A Very Versatile Tool For Creating Interactive Slideshows
Eleventh Anniversary Of This Blog: What Have Been My Most Popular Posts? (Part One)
“Instructional Strategies That Teachers Might Be Missing”
Find All The NY Times Learning Network’s “Country Of The Week” Quizzes In One Place!
Immigration Reform, Ethics & TOK
In Education, If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is….
If You Want To Know Who ELLs Are & Where They Are, This New Website Is For You
Using “The Diary Of Anne Frank” With ELL Newcomers!
Is Music A Universal Language? Take This Cool Quiz To Find Out!
Study Finds That Encouraging Students To Visualize Themselves As Successful Helps Them Overcome Challenges
As regular readers know, at the end of each week I share the five most popular posts from the previous seven days.
I thought people might find it interesting to see a list of the ten most popular posts from the previous thirty days.
You might also be interested in Eleventh Anniversary Of This Blog: What Have Been My Most Popular Posts? (Part One) and Part Two: Eleventh Anniversary Of This Blog – What Have Been My Most Popular Posts?
Here are this month’s most popular posts:
- Nick Foles Just Gave Teachers A Gift Of A Great SEL Lesson
- The Best Websites For Creating Online Learning Games
- The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels”
- English Language Learners Tell Us What Helps Them Learn
- The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom
- The Best Online Virtual “Corkboards” (or “Bulletin Boards”)
- Great Infographic: “You’re Hired: The Skills Employers Seek in New Hires”
- The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them)
- The Best Sites For Learning About The World’s Different Cultures
- “Beautiful[AI]” Uses Artificial Intelligence To Create Your Presentations
February’s Updated “Best” Lists
I am constantly adding new resources to my over 1,900 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. I’ve completed this process with nearly 400 lists over the past eighteen months.
Here are a list of them from this month (you can see previous compilations here):
The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Learning English
The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Math, Social Studies, & Science
The Best Funny Videos Showing The Importance Of Being Bilingual Or Multilingual
The Best Sites For Learning Spanish Online
The Best Resources For World Book Day — April 23rd or First Thursday Of March (Depending Where You Live)
The Best Sites To Learn About The Hindu Festival of Holi
The Best Life Expectancy Calculators
The Best health sites for English language learners
The Best Sites For ELL’s To Learn About The Dangers Of Smoking
The Best Resources For Learning About World Malaria Day
The Best Web Resources For Learning About HIV & AIDS
The Best Online Health Assessments For ELL’s
The Best Sites For Learning About Nutrition & Food Safety
The Best Resources On Teens & Hearing Loss
The Best Resources On Why Breakfast Is Important For Teenagers
The Best Resources To Help Promote A Physically Healthy Lifestyle For Our Students
The Best Resources For Helping Teens Learn About The Importance Of Sleep
The Best Resources On How Exercise Helps Learning — Please Contribute Other Resources
The Best Websites For Students Exploring Jobs and Careers
The Best Sites For Learning Economics & Practical Money Skills
The Best Websites To Teach & Learn Life Skills
The Best Sites For Students To Create Budgets
The Best Places For Students To Write Their Resumes
The Best Sites For Learning About Nelson Mandela
The Best Resources Honoring Nelson Mandela At His Passing….
The Best Art Websites For Learning English
The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations
The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online
The Best Sites To Learn About Diego Rivera
The Best Ways For Students To Create Their Own Online Art Collections
The Best Collections Of “The Best” Pieces Of Art Ever Created
The Best Sites For Learning About Famous Art Thefts
The Best Examples Of “Unusual” Art
The Best Resources Discussing The Importance Of Art In Education — Help Me Find More
The Best Resources For Chinese New Year
The Best Sites To Learn About The Greensboro Sit-Ins
The Best Resources About President’s Day
The Best Sites For Learning About A Lunar Eclipse
The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day
