© 2012 martinak15, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some new additions to The Best Online Sources For Images: Free Stock Photos: 74 Best Sites To Find Awesome Free Images is from Canva. Unsplash sends you ten free photos every ten days that can be used without restriction. Download images from Photos For Class and it will automatically include proper attribution. Not all images on Google are free. How to choose and publish images responsibly. http://t.co/31zXiL9DZb pic.twitter.com/0vyGntLBQD — popplet (@poppletny) May 12, 2015 A must read from @spencerideas : Eight Free Photo Sites That Require No Attribution - http://t.co/snD0SDE5sD — Bill Ferriter (@plugusin) May 8, 2015

Yesterday, I shared a number of reports about Carol Dweck’s talk over the weekend about the growth mindset concept. Jill Berry shared an article about it in Schools Week headlined Carol Dweck says mindset is not ‘a tool to make children feel good.’ Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding this post to The Best Resources On Helping Our Students Develop A "Growth Mindset."

jasohill via Compfight Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The Summer Solstice.

I’m a big fan of using games with my English Language Learners (see The Best Ideas For Using Games In The ESL/EFL/ELL Classroom) and, clearly, some games are better than others. Some of the ones that are near the bottom, in my opinion, are word searches and crossword puzzles EXCEPT for times when, just for a change of pace, having students create their own for classmates to play. I was inspired this morning of another idea for one of these occasional activities when I saw this tweet: Blank jigsaws in languages, placed in correct order to make sentences- can be done for any text #Poundlandpedagogy pic.twitter.com/rket6ffqY7 — LoveToTeach (@87History) May 19, 2015 So, I quickly typed this up to try out the idea: Then I copied the screenshot and pasted it onto the Paint program; then saved it as a jpg image. Next, I went to Jigsaw Planet, uploaded the image, and in seconds it created the online jigsaw puzzle that you see in the image at the top of this post and which you can play here. There are quite a few other sites where you can create your own puzzles - Daily Jigsaw Puzzles and Jigidi are just two more. It seems to me that students creating these for their classmates could be a nice exercise to do now and then. What do you think?

A designer has created a typeface to simulate the experience of having dyslexia: "It simulates the frustration and the work and the outright embarrassment of reading with disability," Daniel Britton says. Check it out at: A powerful design project shows what it’s like to read when you have dyslexia appeared in The Washington Post. Powerful images show what it’s like to read when you have dyslexia is also from The Washington Post. New typeface simulates reading with dyslexia is from CNN. I’m adding this info to The Best Sites For Walking In Someone Else’s Shoes.

Last month, the American Psychological Association issued a big report on learning that I blogged about in Nothing New In New "Top 20 Principles from Psychology for Teaching," But Still Very Useful. However, since that time, UK educator David Didau has been writing a series of posts where he examines each one of those "principles" in-depth and from the point of view of a teacher. They’re very illuminating, and you can see them all here. He’s got eight more to go, and I’m looking forward to reading each of them!

I’ve mentioned on more than one occasion the best piece of classroom management advice I’ve ever heard. It’s from Marvin Marshall, who wrote: Will what I am about to do or say bring me closer or will it push me away farther from the person with whom I am communicating? Here’s a corollary to it that appeared in The New York Times yesterday, and which was highlighted in a tweet by Dan Pink this morning: I’m adding this post to The Best Posts On Classroom Management.

NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft will be arriving at Pluto next month. You can access tons of visuals and infographics on the mission at a special Pinterest page NASA has created about the mission. And here’s a neat video the National Space Society has created: You might also be interested in a ton of "Best" lists related to space you can find here. This is just a small sample: The Best Sites For Learning About Planets & Space The Best Sites To Learn About The Hubble Telescope The Best Images Taken In Space

© 2013 One Way Stock, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio You might, or might not, be interested in an interview Kelly Walsh from Emerging Ed Tech recently did with me. We discuss student motivation, ed tech and teaching English Language Learners.

Why we are not ‘cured’ of racism is an important article in today’s Washington Post. Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding it to The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher & Outside Factors Have On Student Achievement.