Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

As regular readers of this blog know, at the end of each month I share my picks for the “Top Ten” posts for the month. You can see previous picks at Websites Of The Month.

Because of other projects I have going, I wanted to “get this out of the way” early, so I’m publishing my choices for June now. They’re fewer than ten this month, too, because I’ve written several of my “The Best…” lists, and I’d include them here as well. You can find all of these lists at Websites Of The Year.

So, apart from those lists, here are my choices for this month:

Extraordinary U.S. History Site

“Seven Secrets Of Student Learning”

Wordle

Tox Mystery

280 Slides

Mingoville

Each month I highlight what I think are the most useful posts I’ve made over the past month. You can find previous Top Ten lists at Websites Of The Month. I also send them out as a free monthly email newsletter.

I don’t, however, usually include any of my “The Best…” lists, but I obviously think they’re pretty good, too.

Here are my choices for May (they’re not in any order of preference):

Tutpup Math & Spelling Games

More About Maintaining A “Good” Class

Beat The Clock

Listen And Write

Webon

Middlespot

Mapdango

Splashcast & Qlipboard

Interested In Joining Our Sister Classes Project In The Fall?

Gut Instinct

Explore A Pyramid

I regularly post my Websites Of The Month and highlight what I believe to be the most useful posts I write during the month. Generally, there are about ten of them.

This month, I wrote quite a few “The Best…” lists. Instead of listing all the new ones here, I’d encourage readers to just go to Websites of the Year to find them.

I’d like to list five additional posts, too:

YAKIToMe Converts Text To Speech

Tikatok Is Great!

Zip Code Census Dashboard

Play The News

“Burbank Students Use Blog To Learn English”

As regular readers know, I highlight my picks for the “Top Ten” (more or less) sites I’ve posted about each month. You might want to check-out previous Websites of the Month.

Here are my choices for March:

I’ve written several new “The Best….” lists. I won’t list all the new ones here, but you can find all of them at Websites Of The Year. By the way, I just discovered that the link to my recent The Best Websites For Learning and Teaching Geography was incorrect on that page listing all of the lists. It’s fixed now.

Here are my other favorite posts for this month:

ESL/EFL Sister Classes Project

Hospital Connection

Visual Geography

Article About Our School Getting Out of School Improvement

New “Best Search Engine” For English Language Learners

Home Computer Project Update

The “Digital Vaults” Are An Incredible Find!

The Goals Of Education

Every month I pick the Top Ten posts for the month. You can see previous picks at Websites of the Month. I also use this selection for a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see previous issues of the newsletter here.

This month includes several of the newest “Best of…” lists I’ve compiled. I won’t bother listing them here, but you can check them all out on my Websites of the Year.

The others include:

What Are You Doing In That Computer Lab?

Pixton Comic Strips

Plagiarism

Teacher Book Wizard

Breathing Earth

Create An Online Scavenger Hunt With Zunal

If you visit my blog instead of reading posts via an RSS Feed Reader, you’ll see, among other things,  one section on my sidebar called How To Subscribe To My Free Monthly Newsletter and the other entitled Websites of The Month.

I send out a free monthly email sharing what I call the “Websites of the Month” — my choices for the top ten links I post about each month.    Some people don’t want to get daily emails (or RSS feeds) of new posts, and I know some do subscribe to the daily posts but also like getting the newsletter so they can forward it to others.  A few hundred people currently subscribe to the newsletter.

The newsletter itself is quite simple.  You can see past issues here.

I also write a monthly blog post highlighting these Top Ten picks, too, but just list their titles and links with no elaboration.  The newsletter explains more what they are and how they might be used.

It’s easy to subscribe.  Just send me an email at MrFerlazzo@aol.com and write “Subscribe Me” on the subject line.

Today, I’d like to highlight the link on my sidebar to my Websites Of The Month.  Each month I pick what I think are my Top Ten posts (sometimes there are eleven or twelve) and share my choices. 

The sidebar link will take you to a list of all the Top Ten picks for each month since I began writing this blog.

I don’t rank the Top Ten in order of preference, unlike my Websites of the Year.

I also send these Top Ten lists, along with a more expanded explanation of each post listed, as a newsletter to a large list of people who choose not to subscribe to a daily update.   You can see a compilation of these newsletters here.  You can subscribe to this free newsletter here.

As regular readers know, each month I select my choices of the Top Ten links of the month (known as Websites of the Month).

This month includes the five newest “Best of…” lists I’ve compiled.  I won’t bother listing them here, but you can check them all out on my Websites of the Year.

The other five are:

Make My Face

Spelling City

Scribble States Game

TechLearning Article on ESL and Video Games

Traveler IQ Challenge

I’m putting out my picks for this month’s Top Ten posts early this month. I thought it might be helpful before everyone leaves for Winter Break.

Here they are, in no particular order:

Excellent Web 2.0 Guides

Wordmaster

Physics Life & Instructify

Daft Doggy Does It Again!

Animated Idioms

Show Beyond Audio Slideshows Again

Flashback History Movies

Neat Music Sites

To Filter, Or Not To Filter? Is That The Question?

Here are my picks for the best posts this month:

* Browser Books Again

* Translating and Listening

* Kid-Friendly Simon Sez Santa

* Another Fantastic Service From Daft Doggy

* Newspaper Article On Our Home Computer Project

* One True Media

* Does Using Technology Add Value To The Classroom?

* Tumblr

* Maps Of The World

* Launchball

Here are my choices for the “Top Ten” posts in October (though, once again, I could only get it down to twelve):

Amazing New Webquest Tool

Free Rice Game

Problem/Solution Essays

Kindersay

“In Practice” Post

News For English Language Learners

Another Ecological Footprint Calculator

Everyday Life

Create A Talking Picture

Wonderful Panoramas

Sketchcast

Excellent Online Language Program

I couldn’t narrow it down to a “Top Ten” of the best posts from this blog this month.  So here are the “Top Twelve:”

* Home Computers & English Language Learning

* Extraordinary Research Site

* Trading Cards

* Online ESL Journals

* A Zillion More Talking Stories

* What Do You Do In The Computer Lab?

* Wordbuilder

* Bite Size Math and Literacy

* HippoCampus For History, Government & Math

* Another TechLearning Article

* Fantastic Cambridge Sites!

* Awesome Stories

Here are my picks for the Top Ten posts of the past month:

* Daily Activities

* International Reading Association Award

* Using Online Video Games For ESL

* More Talking Stories

* Computers and Relationships Article

* The Best Online Slideshow Creator Yet!

* Great New Slideshow Creator

* Top Ten Tools

* Nishi School Games

* Embedded Learning Portal

Here are my picks for best posts for this month.  These are where I highlighted the Top Ten websites for the month of July.  They are the ten best new (at least to me!) sites for assisting English Language Learners and their teachers.

They are not, however, listed in any particular order:

* Great Site For U.S. History Projects

* Musical Game Room

* Amazing Karaoke Site

* ESL Listservs

* Back-up Storage

* New TechLearning Article

* Literactive

* What Was There?

* Twenty Questions Game

* Create Video Quizzes (this is actually from a few months ago, and I just realized that I’ve never put it on a Top Ten list)

The school-year is just about over,  and I thought I’d highlight my Top Ten Websites for this month early.  I probably won’t do another Top Ten until August (though I’ll still be posting regularly in this blog).

Remember, you can view previous Top Ten lists by clicking on Websites of the Month, within this post or on the top right of the screen under “Pages.”

Here they are (in no particular order):

* Talk Dog

* Screencasts & ESL

* Another Online Video Game

* Favorite Game Sites

* Create a Medieval Tapestry

* E-Cards

* Online Talking Stories

* Picture Sentences

* Be a Detective

* Student Trips

I highlighted my top ten picks for Websites of the Month for April and May of this year.  You can see them by clicking on “Websites of the Month” under “Pages” on the top right of your screen.

However, I didn’t create a Top Ten for March, the first full month I wrote in this blog. Since I wrote about quite a few exceptional sites that month, I thought making a Top Ten list from that month’s posts would still be helpful to newer readers.

Here’s my March Top Ten list (a little late):

Photo Books

International Reading Association Award

Phrase Builder

English 180

Spelling

Talking Stories

Science Translations

The Learning Edge

Intriguing Way To Learn Vocabulary

Talking Dictionary

Each month I send out an email newsletter highlighting what I think are the “Top Ten” websites for each month.

The ten I’ve decided on for this month are (not in any order):

Make a Slideshow Online

Making Faces

Create Video Quizzes

Temporary Student Email Addresses

Make a Virtual “You” (three websites are highlighted in this post)

Profile America

Free E-Mail Newsletters on Education

FOSSweb Online Science

I try to send out a newsletter each month to people who don’t necessarily want to receive daily updates from my blog about new content.These newsletters are a “Top Ten” of the fifty-to-one-hundred new links I highlight in my blog monthly. I’ll also make this Top Ten list a blog entry.

I will not list the top ten sites in order of priority, though.It was hard enough to pick ten, much less to try to prioritize the ones I chose!

Each link will bring you to the blog entry about that new link:

* “Creating” Online Videos with English Language Learners

*  Hello World English

* Easy Online Film-Making

* Two Best Beginning To Read Sites

* Easy Geography

* Face Match

* Many Math Activities

* Citizenship

* English 180

* Talking Stories 

* Samuel L. Jackson, My ESL Students, And Me