Larry Ferlazzo’s Best…
The Best Sites for Learning About St. Patrick’s Day and April Fools Day
With St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) and April Fool’s Day (April 1st) coming so close together, I thought that it would be good to combine the two in a “The Best…” list.
Top Ten Learning Tools of 2009
From Larry Ferlazzo’s Learning Tools Compendium come his picks for the top ten learning tools of 2009.
Best Web Sites for African-American History
February is Black History Month in the United States, so I thought a “Best’” list focusing on the best Web sites to teach and learn about African-American history would be timely and helpful.
Best Science and Math Sites for 2009
Here are my choices for The Best Science and Math Sites 2009. I’m not listing them in any order of preference, except at the very end of this post, where I’ll highlight the number one site for both science and math this year. (It’s the same for both.)
Best Online Personality, Career, Political, and Just-Plain-Fun Quizzes
Online quizzes of various types abound on the Web. Many are just for fun, but include reading and vocabulary development opportunities. Some, though, also offer useful information to students.
The Best Fun Sites You Can Use for Learning Too – 2009
These Web sites weren’t designed with education in mind, but they easily can be used for learning purposes -- particularly, though not exclusively, for English Language development.
Best Sites for Learning Economics and Practical Money Skills
There are a large number of financial literacy sites out there, but I have to say I was surprised at how many of them I just didn’t think were very good. Here, however, are my picks for more than a dozen of the best sites for learning economics and practical money skills.
Places to Learn Computer Basics and
How to Fix Tech Problems
I know the title of this “The Best…” list is a mouthful, but I thought readers might find it useful to have some good resources where non-tech-savvy people (like myself) can look for help related to technology trouble-shooting and software questions.
Sites for Helping Beginning Readers
The best way to teach people to read is to provide them with accessible and high-interest text. The images and audio at these sites provide a high degree of accessibility. The large quantity of stories the sites offer help them meet the “high-interest” criteria.
Web 2.0 Applications for Education
In order to make this list of 30 top Web 2.0 applications for education., a site had to be free, accessible to English Language Learners and non-tech savvy users, appropriate for classroom use, and completely browser-based with no download required.
About the Author
Larry Ferlazzo has taught English and Social Studies to both English Language Learners and mainstream students at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California, for six years. Prior to becoming a teacher, he spent twenty years working as a community organizer assisting low- and moderate-income families improve their communities. He has won numerous awards, including the Leadership for a Changing World award from the Ford Foundation, the International Reading Association Presidential Award for Reading and Technology, and the Sacramento State College of Education’s “Education Partnership Award." He writes a popular resource-sharing blog for teachers, and also has a Web site for students. He recently co-authored a book titled Building Parent Engagement in Schools; a second book, "Teaching English Language Learners: Strategies That Work," will come out next year. Both are published by Linworth Publishing.
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