I’m sure you probably know that a Carnival is basically a collection of posts from various blogs on a selected topic. All you have to do is pick a post you’ve written sometime over the past few months or one that you will write in September that you think is particularly insightul or helpful and that’s related to teaching English Language Learners. Send the link to me by Sept. 30th and I’ll post the collection shortly thereafter.

If there’s interest, we could continue this monthly or quarterly, each time hosted by a different blog.

Here’s a post I’ve written announcing it:

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2007/09/06/lets-start-an-esl-carnival/

And here’s a link to a recent “Carnival of Education” to give you an idea of what a Carnival might look like:

http://educationwonk.blogspot.com/2007/09/carnival-of-education-week-135.html

Larry Ferlazzo

Also there are some issues with the ‘MyMaps” feature in Google Maps. It does not always seem to give me the correct code for the map I have selected. Will have to play with it. The potential for place-based learning is there though. I am excited.

Have a look at this link too for another post on the same topic.

http://www.joewoodonline.com/2007/09/google-earth-embedded-video-feature.html

Best wishes

Joe