Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them. Those are not included again in this post.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for December’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

Visions of the Cosmos is a neat Wall Street Journal slideshow.

‘How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?’ 30 Million People Wonder is satire from The Onion.

When the question is either/or, sometimes the answer is both (Thanks to Bud Hunt)

What Lessons Those Carrots Are Teaching, New York Times

The Bold, the Beautiful and the Incremental, Public School Insights

More to education than data, Diane Ravitch

Understanding the development of academic langauge for ELLs, Judie Haynes

See how the number of crayon colors have expanded over the years in this infographic

“The time has come for detracking”

Why You Haven’t Donated to Haiti Yet is an intriguing study of why & when we give

Vidinotes lets you create notes of video, including images

“Redefining Achievement”, Deborah Meier

Interactive on Doomsday Clock

Intriguing review of data used by author of Atlantic Teach For America article (Thanks to Susan Ohanian)

Fascinating interactive showing how energy use has developed since the Industrial Revolution

9 Amazing Bridges

Reading In The Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention, New York Times

“Make Beautiful Music on YouTube With This Interactive Video”

The Messiah Complex, David Brooks, critical thinking about Avatar

Hitching All Our Wagons to Tests, Public School Insights

How much data do Americans consume each day? Check out this visual breakdown

You might also be interested in seeing a list of favorite tweets at Shelly Terrell’s blog.

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I thought it might be useful for both readers of this blog and for me to review those monthly lists and pick a few that I think are the very best “tweets” of the year.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my choices fo The Best “Tweets” Of 2009:

Four Flawed Assumptions of School Reform

100 Best Last Lines from Novels (Thanks to Alexander Russo)

National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009 from the Big Picture

“Can I Put You On Hold?” NY Times column on “words you hate to hear”

Amazing stuff from the NY Times Innovation Portfolio

I’ve never imagined people would use a trampoline like this (you might not want to listen to the accompanying music, though)

“50 Most Stunning Wall Murals From Around The World”

Nine Myths About Public Schools by Gerald Bracey (Thanks to Margaret Haun for the tip)

50 Stunning & Inspirational Stop Motion Videos

“Is Online Learning REALLY Better?”

Do Rewards Kill Innovation and Creativity? (Thanks to Chad Ratliff for the tip)

How to be a great panelist (Thanks to Keisa Williams for the tip)

“School is No Place for Heroes, Says One Scholar” is a good article poking holes in the myth that one person can do it all.

Elmore Leonard’s Rules of Writing (thanks to Story tellin for the tip)

An Intriguing Alternative To No Child Left Behind is a good Washington Post column on Richard Rothstein, one of my favorite education writers.

A sign in an English classroom: “Follow your dreams – except for that one where you fly. That never ends well.” (thanks to MagistraM for the tip)

Odyssey Online is an extremely well-done & accessible interactive on ancient Greece.

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them. Those are not included again in this post.

I’m posting December’s list a bit early — over the holidays I need to focus more on writing my third book, so will be spending less time on the Web for the next couple of weeks.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for December’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

Vokle lets you host your own live video events

Ninja cat & Golden retriever video

13 Unhappy Dogs in Reindeer Costumes

Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics, NY Times

Center on Education Policy study of turnaround schools casts doubt on federal turnaround strategies (thanks to Claus von Zastrow)

The New York Times Magazine Annual Year In Ideas 2009

“Illegal” Immigrant Students Publicly Take Up a Cause , NY Times

Helping ELLs Acquire Academic Content

6 Billion Others (Thanks to Bill Ferriter)

Six Wonderful Things About Games (Thanks to Marisa Constantinides)

Volcanoes: Dangerous Beauty, LIFE slideshow

Sherman Dorn criticizes journalists who uncritically swallow claims that achieve. gaps have been closed (thanks to Claus von Zastrow)

12 Awe Inspiring Snow Sculpture Themes

Living Stories is new collaboration between Google, NY TImes & Wash Post

Sputtik is a new search engine just for Web 2.0 apps

The Top 10 Everything of 2009, TIME Magazine

100 Best Last Lines from Novels (Thanks to Alexander Russo)

Four Flawed Assumptions of School Reform

15 Amazing Party Balloon Sculptures (Thanks to Interesting Pile)

MentionMap is a cool visualization of who you are connecting with on Twitter

35 Powerful Photos That Tell A Story

The Difference Between An Amateur, A Scientist, And A Genius

How We Overvalue Education, Newsweek

New slideshows, including ones on spelling and reading comprehension, from Tom Barrett

Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense, Scientific American

“7 tales of cities lost or found” interactive

Track My T Shirt

The 50 best protest signs of 2009

“10 Unique Gifts You Can Make with Help from the Web”

Average Consumer Spending Breakdowns1984-2008 infographic

You might also be interested in seeing a list of favorite tweets at Shelly Terrell’s blog.

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for November’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009 from the Big Picture

History of Anime, Wall St. Journal interactive & slideshow

Last week was 100th anniversary of Peter Drucker’s birth, here’s a nice review of his ideas

Let’s Slow Down & Consider Our Path Carefully, nice post by Deb Meier

2008 Poverty Estimates for all school districts in US

Looking forward to reading Dan Pink’s new book Drive:The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Thanks to Patrick Larkin for the tip)

Infographic on The Great Garbage Patch

Mankind’s Greatest Explorations and Adventures, from TIME Magazine

“Tips for the Admissions Test … to Kindergarten” horrifying story in NY Times

Jay Matthews: Why not junk teacher evaluations in favor of more preparation time?

Can High Tech Hype Trump School Uniforms? Larry Cuban post

Now, these are what I call cool falling dominoes

I’ve never imagined people would use a trampoline like this (you might not want to listen to the accompanying music, though)

10 Amazing Staircases Around the Globe

Over 300,000 Bangladeshis sign up to learn English by cellphone, Washington Post

Interactive map showing which countries have the most corruption

“Can I Put You On Hold?” NY Times column on “words you hate to hear”

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

Bizarre & unusual destinations around the world , LA Times slideshow

Amazing juggling video

1920s video footage of London, in color

An Afghan Development Model: Small Is Better, NY Times article & slideshow on community organizing

Make math worksheets for free

The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today)

Infographic on “How To Use An Apostrophe”

“The Problem With ‘Precious’” Newsweek review and important critique of movie

Infographic showing change in population in different countries

New study suggests that comparisons of education attainment in different countries use deeply flawed data

Amazing stuff from the NY Times Innovation Portfolio

Very interesting New Yorker article on how the Internet does not help public discourse

Street art using plastic garbage bags & subway exhaust

You might also be interested in seeing a list of favorite tweets at Shelly Terrell’s blog.

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for October’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

Free Video Editing Tools: Guide To The Best Software And Web-Based Services

Strategies for using comics in the classroom (Thanks to Richard Byrne)

Teaching with Essential Questions: “Great Debates in American History” (Thanks to Nancy Blair)

Experience learning disabilities

A People’s History Of The Internet, interactive from The Guardian

60 Second Recap has entertaining 1 minute video recaps of famous books

What Teacher Research Doesn’t Say

Here’s an interactive on The Nuclear Landscape

Missions To Mars infographic

Interactive feature on the Ozone Layer

Teachers as Both Problem and Solution: The Conundrum That Won’t Go Away

Graph showing US weekly earnings over the past eight years by gender, ethnicity

30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps

27+ Beautiful Examples of Infographics

Sure curriculum is the most impactful ed reform strategy, but it’s sooo much more fun to bash teachers!

“50 Most Stunning Wall Murals From Around The World”

Every major battle fought in world history on Google Maps

Problems with Phonics Instruction

Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn

Myths About Paying Good Teachers More, Wash Post column on why merit pay isn’t a good idea

Wild visualization of 50 yrs of space exploration

“Another Dirty Secret about Turnaround Schools (2)”

Fun Food Rules from NY Times

10 Most Amazing Cliffs

Exhaustive Wash. Post interactive on carbon emissions from diff. countries

Nature’s Halloween Horrors: 20 Scary Animals

You might also be interested in seeing a list of favorite tweets at Shelly Terrell’s blog.

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for September’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

Nine Myths About Public Schools by Gerald Bracey (Thanks to Margaret Haun for the tip)

Making Education Policy: Is Research in the Mix?

Curiosity, Ingenuity and Styrofoam Science, excellent article on “open-ended curiosity” from The Atlantic

29 Rare & Exotic Animal Photographs

10 Things Global Warming Could Change Forever

Infographic analyzing nutritional content of typical school lunch

Great resources on “Essential Questions”

Good critique of “merit pay” (Thanks to David Cohen)

12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World from Wired Magazine

Learning From Mistakes Beats Learning From Success (Thanks to Nancy Blair)

Top 10 Time-Lapse Videos Show Nature at Work

New York Times article on programmers working in pairs is similar to social learning in schools (thanks to Katie Day)

Putting Poverty in Its Place, the challenge of “neighborhood” based approaches (thanks to Alexander Russo

Infographic: The Most Frugal Cities In America

50 Stunning & Inspirational Stop Motion Videos

The 50 best things to eat in the world, and where to eat them

Top 10 Cutest Creatures Ever

“Is Happiness Catching?” — pretty interesting article in The New York Times Magazine

New Book by Malcolm Gladwell

Interesting interactive on climate change (Thanks to Ozge)

Wired Infographic on which parts of the US are most guilty of each of the 7 Deadly Sins

Lego Versions of 13 Classic Photographs

Using Technology to Support Creativity and Critical Thinking

“Is Online Learning REALLY Better?”

Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration

You might also want to check out other collections of tweets at Mission to Learn and at Shelly Terrell’s blog.

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for August’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

10 Stunning Structures Most Often Overlooked

10 Fascinating Last Pictures Taken

Da Vinci’s lion springs to life: Using original plans by Leonardo da Vinci, his life-like lion is built in this video.

Tons of examples and templates for Web Inquiry Projects (thanks to Web20Classroom)

Glossary of Education Related Terms (thanks to Web20Classroom)

“Top 10 Apologies” TIME Mag. slideshow, from Plato to Mark Sanford

“Top 10 Famous Mysterious Monsters” TIME Mag. slideshow

How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck Infographic

Lots of rubric resources

Seven video editing applications (Thanks to Kevin Hodgson)

Well-done interactive showing the quantity of fossil fuels needed for items on dinner plate

Corporal Punishment In Schools, NY Times infographic showing which states allow it & who uses it most

Infographic showing items you eat & what exercise you have to do to work off their calories

CriticalThinking.org – The Foundation for Critical Thinking (Thanks to C Hollingsworth)

How to make a Youtube interactive video (Thanks to Russel Tarr)

“I Learned It At The movies” very interesting research piece on how teachers can use film effectively

LabWrite is a pretty impressive site for science (Thanks to Lucy Gray)

“10 best science museums on the web” (Thanks to pdonaghy)

“Five Reasons to Stop Saying ‘Good Job!’” from Alfie Kohn

The Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009 (Thanks to Diana Dell)

“AfriGadget: Solving Everyday Problems with African Ingenuity” looks like neat place to learn about Africa.

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for July’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

See in this infographic how much it costs per passenger to travel by jet,train,bus,SUV,car,scooter

Do Rewards Kill Innovation and Creativity? (Thanks to Chad Ratliff for the tip)

‘The Power of Nazi Propaganda’, a Wall Street Journal slideshow.

How to be a great panelist (Thanks to Keisa Williams for the tip)

A collection of substitute plan ideas from Rick Wormeli (Thanks to Bill Ferriter for the tip)

4 2 Explore — lots of excellent links (Thanks to John Faig for the tip)

Infographic on what average US consumer spends annually — $49,638

Guess the Wordle activity

Impressive Wall St. Journal interactive on Harry Potter

“A Big National Study vs. 100 Local Experiments”

45 Websites For Students To Create Original Artwork Online

Odysseus and the Cyclops, an interactive to learn about using quotations marks. (Thanks to Diana Dell for the tip)

Collection of Photo Effects, Online Photo Editor

English Tenses Timeline Chart (Thanks to Holly Suel for the tip)

Search foreign language websites in your own language (Thanks to Barbara Sakamoto for the tip)

What Is Your Teacher Personality?

Using The Web To Create Your Own Virtual Field Trips (Thanks to Tom Whitby and Shelly Terrell for the tip)

Every month I make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

If you don’t use Twitter, you can also check-out all of my “tweets” on my Twitter profile page or subscribe to their RSS feed.

Here are my picks for June’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

“School is No Place for Heroes, Says One Scholar” is a good article poking holes in the myth that one person can do it all.

12 Of The Most Iconic Photographs Ever Taken include some pretty tragic ones. Thanks to John Mikulski for the tip.

The World’s 10 Most Unique Islands has some pretty good images. Thanks to Annie Cook for the tip.

100 Portraits of Iconic People of All Time (Thanks to Russel Tarr for the tip)

Visualizing Cultures: Image Driven Scholarship a pretty neat curriculum developed at MIT, and can be adapted for ELL’s. Thanks again to Russel Tarr.

How Do Some Teachers Seem To Have Eyes In The Back of Their Head?

“A quick guide to interactive YouTube videos”

An interesting debate on the value of Interactive Whiteboards

“Fallout After A Nuclear Attack” is a slideshow of amazing photos from LIFE.

10 Breathtaking Viewing Platforms around the World

“25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos “

Very interesting Wordle-type representation of four US Presidents speeches on Islam from the Wall Street Journal.

Elmore Leonard’s Rules of Writing (thanks to Story tellin for the tip)

Layers of Life is a good interactive on the Rain Forest (thanks to Diana Dell for the tip).

A site for various rubrics (podcasts, cooperative learning) — Thanks to Shelly Terrell for the tip.

Here is a step-by-step guide to making videos and uploading them to the Internet. (thanks to C. Hollingsworth for the tip)

Every month I’ve begun to make a short list highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

I’ve already shared in earlier posts this month several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

Here are my picks for May’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

The High Cost Of Being Poor is a good Washington Post article on how the “poor pay more in time, exhaustion & hassle”

A very good infographic showing the impact of inflation over the past forty years

An Intriguing Alternative To No Child Left Behind is a good Washington Post column on Richard Rothstein, one of my favorite education writers.

“TV Review: Glee” is an interesting blog post about a new television show on schools.

“Voices From The Great Depression” is good audio slideshow interviewing those who went through that time.

Testing: Stereotype Thread and the Perversion of Incentives, Part III is a not-to-be missed post by Alice Mercer.

A sign in an English classroom: “Follow your dreams – except for that one where you fly. That never ends well.” (thanks to MagistraM for the tip)

“Health Visualizer” is a great infographic on health issues facing Americans.

“Wonders Of The World” is a good multimedia overview from Channel One on both ancient and modern “wonders.”

Odyssey Online is an extremely well-done & accessible interactive on ancient Greece.

“Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform” is an exhaustive report on poverty & school achievement.

Signitific Lab has got to be one of the most fascinating online multi-player games out there & the most educational, but it’s hard to explain and I’m not even going to try….

New Study – Merit Pay does NOT work

The Importance of Teaching Critical Thinking

“Teachley’s Amazing Talking Brain” is an interactive with practical ideas on brain-based education

“Poverty and Brain Development,or, I Worry: If Poor People are Stupid, Why Bother?” is an important commentary on a recent study.

Instructions for how to “jigsaw” a lesson in ten easy steps (thanks to Suzanne Whisler for the tip)

I thought it might be useful for readers, and for me, to make a short list each month highlighting my choices of the best resources I shared through Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog.

Obviously, readers know I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them.  Those are not included again in this post.

I’ll be writing a post called “My Verdict On Twitter” in the next week or so (which will include my rationale for what I send “tweets” about on Twitter and what I post here — there may be a “method to my madness” — thought I’m not sure).

I sorta’ “stole” (adapted?) this idea of a list from Richard Byrne, who periodically does a similar feature (though he does it far more often than monthly).

April’s list is a bit late since I just thought of the idea of writing this regular post…

Here are my picks for April’s Best Tweets (not listed in any order):

World cities ranked by “quality of living” (Vienna is number 1)

Cable In The Classroom mag. lists top edtech blogs

A blog post from Susan Graham on Using data vs. intuition in teaching.

I don’t empower students, a blog post by Candace Williams.

“Paint What You Want” — some classroom management advice from Marvin Marshall.

NASA interactive on the mission to repair the Hubble telescope.

Interactive “Time Warp Videos” where you control slow motion. It includes neat ones from nature.

“Legacy of Five Faulty Assumptions” — some common sense from the founder of “Ed Week” about “Why We’re Still ‘At Risk.”

A NY Times lesson on study showing kids who write on values increase grades, Includes assignment used in study.

“Picture This” is online search game for images, good for ELL vocabulary development.

NY Times graphic showing how much money you get for different body parts lost in an accident.

Neat multimedia world map highlighting environmental issues around the world — from Conservation International.