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 website has several activities and games provided to test your knowledge about the culture of different regions of the world. It could be useful to learn about other cultures.

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.

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.

This website is full of helpful resources dealing with multiculturalism in education. Its contains over 50 websites created to help educators locate resources about multiculturalism. There are links containing resources for a lot of reading and social studies classes. There are several links about geography and people groups, multicultural literature, bilingualism, and even resources on tolerance. This site has great activities for projects and lessons, even pen pals.

This site has a bunch of tips, lesson plans, and activities with a multicultural/diverse focus. I liked the "Internet field trip" idea for giving a quick tour of a holiday, country, or cultural event or trend. Many of the virtual field trips give good lesson ideas.

States the definitions and goals of what a multicultural education in science. Article discusses the learning gap in Education in science especially within urban schools and the importance of improvement in science for these students.

What I took away from this article was that in my classroom I should create a cooperative, stable environment that provided enough time and space to focus student energies on doing science.

Article gives teachers tips and advice to motivate and encourage students in a culturally diverse classroom where science may not be a highly valued subject to students.

I would use this in the classroom by having students actively do science and have them share what they found with the class. This would set a foundation to show them they can be successful in science and can motivate them to learn proficiency in science. Once they know they're good at something they'll put more time and effort into developing that skill.

Internet Safety 101 is a widely-renowned resource and teaching series that paints a comprehensive picture of the dangers children encounter online. Through the Internet Safety 101 program, EnoughIsEnough strives to educate and empower parents, educators and other caring adults with the information they need to effectively protect children from Internet dangers.

This internet safety website is geared more towards parents and educators than students, There is information regarding how to identify scams, predators and bullying and then also how to combat these threats. I liked the blog-like forum, but the recent news articles and press/media links made the website feel paranoid. Overall, interesting resources!

Common Sense Media Education Programs is a very clean, user friendly and extremely informative website on the internet safety. They provide numerous ways to educate students, parents and other educators on how to stay safe on the web. Its even divided into appropriate grade level sections. There is a blog/forum to promote further discussion and education. There is also a section for related 'toolkits' that help develop awareness of internet and media safety.

On this site, strategies and programs are discussed, that can help parents monitor and set up online boundaries for their children.

This site provides information on COPPA or Child Online Privacy Protection Act, along with other ways that parents can help keep their children's privacy safe.

This site has nice links for parents and teachers on how to recognize and prevent bullying.

As the name implies, it gives several practical suggestions for staying safe online

This website contains of a wealth of information on Internet safety tips for kids, preventing identity theft, and fire safety. There is also information about first aid, crime prevention, and personal safety. Each page contains several suggestions along with other helpful links. For kids on the Internet, they suggest to never give out personal information, avoid strangers, and immediately leaving inappropriate sites.

Cybersmart is a free online collaborative workshop designed to prepare students, parents and teachers to the dangers of the Internet. This site provides hands-on opportunities for teachers to learn internet-safe methods they will be encouraging in their classrooms. The curriculum is based on the categories of S.M.A.R.T: "safety and security online, manners, bullying, and ethics, authentic learning and creativity, research and information fluency, and twenty-first century challenges. It also provides Internet solutions to some of the world's most impoverished regions. CyberSmart! Africa, for example, finds solutions for schools in Africa so they can be engaged in 21st century technology.