"Larry Ferlazzo's Monthly Website Newsletter" - 1 new article

Here’s my monthly round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 997 of them categorized here):

The Best “Fun” Sites You Can Use For Learning, Too — 2012 (So Far)

The Best Posts & Articles About Why Book “Leveling” Is A Bad Idea

The Best Resources For Learning About Felix Baumgartner’s Jump From The Edge Of Space

A Beginning List Of The Best Online Resources About Hurricane Sandy

The Best Geography Sites For Learning About The United States & Canada

The Best Sites For Introducing English Language Learners To Geography

The Best Online Activities For Learning About Time Zones

The Best Sites For Introducing Maps To English Language Learners

The Best Posts On “Gamification” In Education — Help Me Find More

The Best Resources On “Brain-Based Learning” — Help Me Find More

The Eight Blogs & Two Email Newsletters I Read First

The Best Multimedia Resources For Learning About Fallacies — Help Me Find More

The Best Online Tools For Using Photos In Lessons

The Best Comic Strips For Students & Teachers In 2012 — So Far

Best Tweets Of 2012

The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A “Growth Mindset”

The Best Ways For Advanced ELL’s & Non-ELL’s To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly — REVISED

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 my previous Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month.

These posts are different from the ones I list under the monthly“Most Popular Blog Posts.” Those are the posts the largest numbers of readers “clicked-on” to read. I have to admit, I’ve been a bit lax about writing those posts, though.

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):

“Working Smarter, Not Harder, With Neuroscience in the Classroom”

Two More Studies Show The Flaws Behind Using “Value-Added Measures” To Assess Teachers — Is Gates Foundation Listening?

“Two Cheers for Gates Foundation Student Survey Research” — Guest Post By Dr. John Thompson

“Using ‘Brain-Based Learning’ in the Classroom”

Have You Ever Had A Student Say “This Is Boring”? Here’s A Lesson On It I’m Trying Out Tomorrow

This Is Why I Have Students Share Their Positive Stories

“Using Photographs to Teach Social Justice” Is An Excellent Resource

“Skqueak” Looks Like A Great App For Providing Audio To Photos

“Classroom Strategies to Foster a Growth Mindset”

“Don’t Eat The Marshmallow, Mr. Ferlazzo”

What Does A Broken Escalator Have To Do With A Lesson On Personal Responsibility?

Wow! Google Cultural Institute Is Pretty Impressive…

Transcript To Our Online Ed Week Chat On Teaching ELL’s

Tell A Story At “Web Of Stories”

“Eight Ways to Use Video With English Language Learners”

“Applying Research Findings to the Classroom”

Treasure Chest Of Ways To Build Academic Vocabulary

Nice Review Of My Book, “Helping Students Motivate Themselves”

“Bloom’s Taxonomy according to Andy Griffith”

“Using Photos With English Language Learners”

Wash Post Re-Publishes My Piece On Importance Of “Making A Deal”

“Image Code” Makes Photo Attribution Easy

“What education reformers did with student surveys” Is Clearly A Candidate For Best Educational Policy Post Of The Year

“The Best Ways To Use Interactive White Boards”

“Urlist” Is Now My Favorite Tool For Creating Internet Scavenger Hunts