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Building Blocks: The First Steps of Creating a Multicultural Classroom byLarri Fish of Siena College Discovering diversity takes creativity, extra effort, diligence, and courage on the teacher's part. Thus, American public schools have rarely offered an enthusiastic welcome for student difference.

This site informs us about the practices of work and school exchanges and educational diversity programs to learn about creativity in a multicultural environment. The creative cognitive approach is also elaborated upon as well as other strategies to produce or enhance creativity. Scientific evidence and approaches are focused on in this article.

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Protecting your Digital Identity and that of others - Common Craft. Good video to use with students. 

Although this is written with younger students in mind, there are some good ideas of the skills all beginning bloggers need to learn, how to organize posts in a spreadsheet and track posts using Feedly, an RSS reader. Some good ideas for the classroom teacher. If 4th graders can blog, why not older students?

"Can computers really grade essay tests? The National Council of Teachers of English say "no," even if there is new software that says "yes."" Read the pros and cons in this article and judge for yourself. Can software do an ADEQUATE job of grading essays?

A very personal look by Vicki at handling difficult situations in life. Inspirational.

By Cathy Davidson in HASTAC

"Taxonomy based on pedagogy ... it is important to define a taxonomy of MOOCs not from the institutional but the pedagogic perspective, by their learning functionality, not by their origins." via Donald Clark Plan B

Good discussion on CIPA compliance and who is in charge of determining what is appropriate or not. This discussion articulates why a filtering company shouldn't be in charge of telling me what is appropriate or not. There is no standard that can be applied by a 3rd party provider.

"Speaking and listening. We do it every day for countless reasons. Routine interactions, brief exchanges, or thoughtful diatribes propel us through everything from the most mundane tasks to critical life events. Therefore, it's not surprising that speaking and listening have earned a prominent place in our K-12 standard documents, including the widely endorsed Common Core State Standards (CCSS). "

Here is an inspirational image. I'll use this in professional development settings and to encourage my PLN members.