Feedblitz generally does a good job delivering daily updates of posts from this blog, but many subscribers didn’t receive one on Sunday.

If you didn’t get one, you might want to check the blog directly to see some posts you missed. Quite a few new ones appeared on Saturday. Sorry for the technology snafu.

The New York Times published a guest post I wrote today, Helping Students Motivate Themselves.
You might want to take a look….

How Do We Include Students In The Formative Assessment Process? is the new “question of the week” at my Education Week Teacher column.

Feel free to leave your responses either there or in the comments section here.

As I posted last week, the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival that was going to be posted on January 1st is now going to be published on February 1st. The previously announced schedule for the rest of the year should be fine, though.

We’ve received all the submissions that have come in so far. However, the Blog Carnival site we’ve been using for the past few years seems to be acting a bit strangely these days.

So, if you have a post you’d like to still submit to this Carnival — remember, the theme is “Fun!” — please submit it by using either David Deubelbeiss’ contact form or mine.

I just posted The Ten Most Popular “Classroom Q & A Posts” Of 2011 over at my Education Week Teacher column.

There are some pretty decent ones in there — if I say so myself

The next EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival will be posted on January 1st, so there are only a few days left to contribute a post! David Deubelbeiss from EFL Classroom 2.0 will be the host. This is how David describes the theme:

The theme for this blog carnival is FUN. Submit any blog post, past or present, that really exhibits the power and potential of FUN in the classroom.

He’s got some interesting plans for the Carnival, and you can read about them here.

You can contribute a post to it by using this easy submission form. If the form does not work for some reason, you can send the link to me via my Contact Form. You can also communicate directly with David.

Berni Wall published the 25th Edition of EFL/ESL/ELL Blog Carnival. She asked for teachers to contribute the most popular posts from their blogs and, boy, did she get them. It’s filled with gems!

The March 1st edition will be hosted by Adam Simpson. You can read about his plans for it at his post, No, don’t stop the carnival.

Dani Lyra will be hosting the May 1st edition.

Let me know if you might be interested in hosting future editions.

You can see all the previous editions of the ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival here.

Though I’ll still be publishing daily posts, I’ll be taking a bit of a break over the next couple of weeks.

School’s out this Friday, and I have some book projects and articles to finish, not to mention taking a little family time.

I hope your holiday break is restful and fun!

The winners of the Edublog Awards were announced tonight, and you can see a full list here.

It’s an impressive group! Many are new to me, so I’ll certainly be checking-out quite a few of them over the coming weeks….

Congratulations to all the winners, to everyone who made the “short lists” and to all nominees!

Classroom Management Suggestions — Part Three is the title of my new post at Education Week Teacher.

I think readers might find it useful.

Voting in the Edublog Awards is open until the end of Tuesday but, more importantly, the Edublog Awards Live Online Ceremony is taking place on December 14th at 4:00 PM Pacific Standard Time.

You can get all the details here.

I look forward to it each year because it’s a lot of fun to connect simultaneously with so many people whose tweets and blogs I read.

Unfortunately, because of a prior commitment, this year I’ll only be online for the first twenty minutes. I’d encourage you to check it out!

And, if you’re still interested in voting and are interested in seeing who I nominated, you can read this prior post.