TED8570Spring2013

Tolerance.org is a great website that provides free educational materials for educators. Using the materials, the website promotes the idea of caring about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences in schools. The news, conversation and support of the website often provokes many thoughts of the educators with regard of the tolerance in the schools. Furthermore, the website provides various lesson plans. All of the lesson plans are customized for PreK-12 classrooms, which are particular useful and practical to help students learn respect for differences. In addition, when subscribed the website can send multicultural educational magazine, which is a useful media for educators to read in spare time.

This site is designed to provide teachers with strategies on how to build multicultural curriculum. It offers helpful steps on how to achieve this in any classroom setting.

This site is a portion of the University of Texas's "Foreign Language Teaching Methods" site and is devoted to helping teachers understand the components of creating a multicultural learning environment.

This site hosts a plethora of useful links that are organized by sub topics under the umbrella of "multicultural." For example: literature, teaching tolerance, and ELL lessons on bridging the gap between groups of people.

This website has a good list of multicultural books for kids.

These rules are aimed mostly at pre-teens. It is now very common, and generally safe, for teens and even older pre-teens to upload pictures and information about themselves on social networking sites, however caution is still necessary to make sure that posts, images and videos are appropriate.

This website has a ton of great information for teachers. There is a teaching tolerance program. There are also links for what they do, how to get involved, and getting informed. It has a lot of useful information for teachers who work in a diverse school.

This site has a massive list of resources for music teachers. It includes professional organizations, language dictionaries, ear training and theory sites, and much more!

A generator to create a fake Facebook profile for a literary/historical figure or even a concept/theme. I would use this in a music classroom to let students create composer profiles. Then they can communicate with other composers as if they were that individual.

This is not the best site for music games, but it has a few. It also has multiple resources for teachers and composer information. It has printable worksheets, sheet music, and other activities.

This is the website for Oak Street Elementary School in Plattsburgh, NY. They offer a long list of links to Smartboard music activities.

This is a professional organization for music teachers. The link here is for multicultural music lesson plans that are in line with the national standards for music education.

This site is designed to help teachers of the arts. It includes lesson plans, articles, and current trends in arts education.

This is a great tutorial series on how to pronounce various aspects of the English language, having this video pronounce the English alphabet. Her videos on youtube are very explanatory and she also offers a website (http://www.rachelsenglish.com/) with extra information. Perfect for ELL's wanting to perfect their pronounciation.

This site explains music theory in a tiered fashion. It starts with very simple concepts and builds from there. There are different areas for lessons, exercises for practicing what is learned, and other tools.

I really liked this website as a multicultural resource for students and teachers because they provided various types of information, materials for lesson plans, and gave contact/following information by the makers of the website. From quotes to articles this website is stocked with information. However since it is so abundant in resources, it seems a tad cluttered, so some sleuthing will have to be done in order to find the perfect resource you need.

Internet Safety 101 has extensive information about how the internet works. It also shows age-based guidlines for safety and what parents/teachers can do to keep kids safe.

This website offers detailed information regarding internet safety for kids. There is a list broken down by age group explaining the mindset of the child and how to work with it. This site could be a valuable resource for both teachers and parents.

This is a nice website with multicultural games for children and multicultural lessons for teachers.

This website has several resources for teachers who have a Spanish-speaking population in their classroom. The site itself is in Spanish and English and can be read by both language speakers easily. This site gives teachers the research on English Language Learners, the policy on teaching English to them, and many guidlines for teaching. This website not only offers resourcs to the teacher, it also offers resources for the families of the Spanish-speaking students. There is an entire list of links that discuss topics such as policy, immigration and citizenship information, parental involvement, reaching out to parents, organizations that may be of interest, and much more. All of these resources on this site can be read in Spanish or English.