This is an ongoing list of resources for teachers planning multi-cultural curriculum and for teachers who are planning multi-classroom or projects with classrooms in other schools, states, and countries. I will update this list from time to time, so please bookmark it, Please send me any good resources at ullahlinda@foothill.edu.
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9-11 As History A multi-dimentional resources for helping students, parents and teachers address the anniversary of 9-11 with lesson plans and resources.
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Global Education The Mission of the Franklin Institute is to accelerate, worldwide, innovative use of technology in education and training so that the benefits of knowledge acquisition are affordable and accessible to all.
Collaborative Online Leaning Projects How easy is it for teachers to access excellent online interactive projects and use these to motivate, stimulate and engage their students in exciting learning outcomes and address the curriculum at the same time?
Cultural Connections This is a publisher of bilingual books, games, and other products in over 38 languages. These bilingual materials are appropriate for foreign language instruction,
Cultural Connections: The Tapestry of Life National Geographic Lesson Plan: In this lesson young students will use a variety of media to explore culture as the sum of learned patterns of behavior, institutions, values, and belief systems. Students will learn how to identify, compare, and appreciate the cultural characteristics of different regions and people.
Designing Virtual Communities for Creativity and Learning Article by Dr. Ted Kahn
"Bringing about real change and innovation in any endeavor or organization is really about people. While technology can be a catalyst for much-needed change in our educational system, it can only be really effective if we support, enrich, and leverage the creative work and lifelong learning opportunities of all the people who, together, form a learning community -- learners, providers, payers and policymakers."
ED Teachers Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet The Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration was developed to help teachers use the Internet to "reach out" globally. These materials were prepared as part of the Department of Education's International Education Initiative.
Global Learning Portal Global Learning Portal is a free online community to get help in the form of quality educational resources, to connect with colleagues from around the world and to work online and access a wealth of resources from any computer
Global Learning, Inc Global Learning, Inc. is a non-profit educational organization that translates the world's growing interdependence into educational activities for teachers, students, librarians, and educational systems, from elementary school through college and in community settings.
If the World Were a Village This is a great "thought piece" to use to introduce a global project.
f we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:...
Mark Standley Workshop Presentations-Global PBL Diversity in language and culture among students and staff can be either a challenge or opportunity. Global project-based learning is a model for working with diverse students to utilize the differences into distinct learning advantages.
Peace Projects Directory This site is a directory of projects and organizations offering service programs, development projects, conflict prevention and resolution for a better, more peaceful world
Peter Menzel Photo Gallery Photographer Peter Menzel's photos are a wonderful resources for global projects. His book Material World shows how people all over the world live. Women in the Material World, Hungry Plant:What the World Eats,and his Travel photos are also wonder springboards for anyone starting a collaborative global project or integrating multi-culturalism into their curriculum.
TeachNet TeachNet Ireland is an initiative of St Patricks College Drumcondra, run in association with the Teachers Network New York. TeachNet Ireland funding is generously provided for by the Citigroup Foundation.
The projects major components include:
Identifying teachers and other educators to serve as trainers/facilitators;
Conducting training workshops for teachers in all subject areas;
Awarding grants to teachers to disseminate innovative student-focused curriculum projects;
Developing an online database of the innovative projects to share with a national and international audience of teachers and students;
Publishing print catalogues of the innovative classroom projects to encourage other teachers to adapt these projects;
Creating an on-line and off-line professional community of teachers who are integrating technology into the school curriculum.
The Partnership in Global Learning he Partnership in Global Learning (PGL) is an international collaboration among K-12 schools, universities, and corporations to conduct e-learning research and training. PGL is creating e-learning communities to share expertise and resources.
Tsunami Disaster Relief Web Resource List Resources dealing with Tsunamis. Includes organizations who help in times of disaster, curriculum links, and project ideas.
Alta Vista's Babelfish Online Translation Tool Alta Vista's online translation tool. Translates text and web sites into a variety of languages. Web translators, although not perfect, can be helpful for global projects.
Google Language Tool Google's online translation tool. Translates text and web sites into a variety of languages. Web translators, although not perfect, can be helpful for global projects.
Moodle Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.
My eCoach My eCoach is a a professional learning community that builds global collaborative projects through sustainable coaching and mentoring programs. It is an online mentoring and coaching tool that all a variety of online tools all in one online package. It offers an eLibrary, Lesson and Project Plan Builders, Discussion Boards, Chat, a Message Center, etc.
Taking It Global Access to a global network of over 90,000 TakingITGlobal members
• Tools for creating and managing your Projects and Organizations
• The ability to submit writing to Panorama, our online publication
• Your own Artist's Page in the Global Gallery
• Your own TIGblog and much, much more!
Tapped In Tapped In is an online workplace of an international community of education professionals. K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.
Think.com Think.com is a free online "Intranet" project tool from Oracle Education Foundation for primary and secondary schools. It allows students to work collaboratively to create secure (non public) Web based projects.
English Resource Center-Collaborative Online Projects Projects are organised exchanges with another teacher(s) or class(es) using such some form of telecommunications such as email. They have sound educational goals, are planned carefully, cover a defined period of time and are usually collaborative in nature. Harris (1998) has defined three dominant learning activities that are involved, interpersonal exchange, information collection and analysis and problem solving.
Global Project Based Learning Paper This paper was written by Linda Ullah, M.A. M.Ed as part of her Instructional Technology Masters Degree project in 2003. The other part of this project was the development of the Global Project Based Learning online course.
The Guiding Partner Approach Article by Judi Harris, Sue Eskridge, and Robert Sibley, 1999
.."being able to operate Internetworked tools [is] an important, but merely prerequisite step toward creating powerful telecollabortion and teleresearch in our classrooms. How to apply the tools in curriculum-based educational activities, although less frequently the target of careful thought and in-depth investigation, is a much richer, more complex, longer-term, and more critical area for educators to explore at this point in time.In short, it's not about how teachers use the TOOLS--it's about how we USE the tools." (Harris, 1998, pp.5-6)
ASTL (Art, Science and Technlogy of Learning:Designing Learning Environments for the 21st Century This is an archival site of and international workshop for educators from both Developed and Developing countries. This workshop will help mutually develop collaborative projects, and will also include discussions to help the participants most effectively prepare their students for the coming "Learning Century" using new approaches, and involving integration of technology to support needed changes in teaching and learning.
The central purpose of the Workshop is to bring together the participants in order to share and exchange knowledge and experiences, and to generate cooperative international educational projects involving students and teachers in both Developed & Developing Countries through the use of on-line telecommunications, the Internet, and the World Wide Web.
Bellingham School District Online Research Investigations
Purpose of Online Investigations
The vision of Bellingham School District is that the learning community will be technologically literate life-long learners. Learners will be able to interact successfully in a technological environment to achieve their personal, educational, and workplace goals. They will skillfully use technology to access, retrieve and use information school-wide, community-wide, nationally, and internationally.
The collaborative online investigations were developed in order to meet this vision of technology.
Blanket the World WIth Peace A Collaborative project of The Electronic Media Interest Group
Of the National Art Education Association and TAPPEDIN of SRI by BJ Berquist
Brazil-U.S. Water Pollution Project This is a project archive of a project done by elementary school students at Edenvale Elementary School in San Jose, CA and high school students at Idalina School in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is a good resource for teachers wanting to start a global collaborative project.
Center for Global Environmental Education: Service Learning Projects Browse the project pages listed below to decide which one to do. For each, you'll find success stories, step-by-step instructions, and direct links to videos, curriculum, equipment, and people needed for that project. Or, research community needs and resources, then create your own project.
ePals Classroom Exchange ePALS is the Internet's largest community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural exchanges, project sharing and language learning. ePALS is also the leading provider of school-safe emailTM, eMentoring and web-browsing technology for the global educational marke
Flat Stanley n the book, Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown, Stanley is squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. One of the many advantages is that Flat Stanley can now visit his friends by travelling in an envelope. This premise provides a reason for us to keep in touch with each other. The Flat Stanley Project is a group of teachers who want to provide students with another reason to write. Students' written work goes to other places by conventional mail and e-mail. Check out the Flat Stanley List of Participants to see where you can send a Flat Stanley or who might be sending a Flat Stanley to you.
Students make paper Flat Stanleys and begin a journal with him for a few days. Then Flat Stanley and the journal are sent to another school where students there treat Flat Stanley as a guest and complete the journal. Flat Stanley and the journal are then returned to the original sender. Students can plot his travels on maps and share the contents of the journal. Often, a Flat Stanley returns with a pin or postcard from his visit. Some teachers prefer to use e-mail only, and this is noted in the List of Participants.
FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS: A Peace Pals Project Weaving is a craft known around the world in all cultures throughout time. From making cloth for clothing to nets for fishing, this art has been, and still is, an important part of everyone's life. The FRIENDSHIP BRACELET is another weaving project that you can make and send to all your friends and Peace Pals, letting them know they are in your thoughts. Wearing the bracelet around their wrist or ankle will also help them to remember you!
Global Learning Communities Global Learning Communities aim to replicate the global economy in learning by creating links between schools around the world and particularly those in different time zones. This web site aims to share our work in establishing 24x7 learning and to identify and nurture future patterns for learning. In visiting this site, you are warmly invited to participate in these developments. The work so far is supported by specific Government (Public Service Agreement) funding through Bedfordshire County Council and the East of England Development Agency.
iEarn EARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 20,000 schools in more than 115 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 1,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
Intercultural eMail Classroom Connections IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992, IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships.
Internet Projects These curricular projects are designed and produced by SchoolWorld members and our collaborative partners. All projects are free of charge and are designed for use by international schools. Read the project descriptions and subscribe to those that fit the learning needs of your students!
Internet Schoolhouse The Internet Schoolhouse is A Virtual School Promoting Global Friendship and 21st Century Learning. Educators may enter this virtual education site knowing that the site is designed with the classroom teacher and school curriculum in mind. The site provides a safe place on the net for students to begin work quickly and safely, and helps to keep students on task.
KidAllies Follow our adventures as we travel around the Americas. Meet new friends in other countries. Learn about about different cultures and explore distant habitats. Find out about the challenges faced by other communities and what they're doing to fight for social justice. Then be a good ally and get involved!
KidProj KidProj is from KidLink. Students through secondary school join global projects. Teachers and youth group leaders from around the world plan activities and projects for their students in KIDPROJ-COORD, the adult discussion area of KIDPROJ. Student work is posted on the web in Kidlink's KidSpace.
Louisiana Challenge Activies for K-12 Classrooms Electronic collaborative learning involves students working together electronically, to achieve a common learning goal. There are four essential elements in an effective collaborative lesson: positive interdependance, individual accountability, interpersonal and small-group skills, and group processing.
These collaborative projects are designed to integrate Internet technology into the curricula and to foster communication and cooperation across previously untravelled avenues. We hope you enjoy using them and we hope that you will submit a call for collaboration.
Mr. Patch's Quilt Club This interactive Quilt Club Project touches all areas of curriculum. Students and teachers use a six-step planning guide from Mr. Patch's Quilt Club Website to explore a curricular area and link to standards and learning at their grade level.
Help us blanket the globe with "Cyber-Quilts" by emailing your work to Mr. Patch and he will "sew"you a quilt to add to the collection, or... use the quilt template below to create your own!
Newton's Castle Explore Newton's Castle to learn about his discoveries and secret life. Learn about color, optical illusions, observations from nature and fascinating facts about how cars roll up hill and why dogs chase cars. There are several Project Legal (TIPS) lessons included regarding copyright and censorship issues and a Newton Timeline. Take the quiz and get a perfect score to gain access to the treasures contained in the Museum of Modern Art. Newton's Castle is replete with inquiry learning, lateral puzzle
solving opportunities and investigative training options.
This site was created by my students with
their peers at the Thomas Hepburn School in the UK and was featured as Good HouseKeeping Site of the Day on October 7, 2005 and Cyberbee Web
Pick for the Month of November. It was also featured in the Edutopia Newletter and Earth Science Site of the Week listserve.
Only Hearts Peace Project The "Only Hearts" Peace Project is an educational, empowering and fun-filled activity that can easily be downloaded from this web page for use in classrooms, after-school programs, and in homes.
Outside My Window In 2003, Mark Gross found that the room for his International Relations class had no windows. So his class decided to make one. They asked people from all over to email pictures taken outside their windows and hung them on the wall in their room inside a frame made up of their own self portraits. Photos poured in! Today, Outside My Window is a school club that connects people worldwide through photography and email.
Pinwheels for Peace On Sept. 21, 2005, approximately 500,000 pinwheels
were spinning in over 1,350 locations throughout the world! Please plan to join us next year, on Sept. 21st, 2006, as once again we celebrate "whirled peace."
Rock Around the World Mars scientists are asking students from around the world to help them understand the red planet. Send in a rock collected by you or your classroom from your region of the world, and we will use a special tool like the one on the rover to tell you what it's made of. Then everyone can compare their rocks to the ones found on Mars.
Science Buddies Science Buddies is a non-profit organization empowering students from all walks of life to help themselves and each other develop a love of science and an understanding of the scientific method. With the help of our Mentors and Advisors, we help students improve their science skills and literacy, and we inspire them to consider additional study or careers in science.
The Genographic Project This in National Geographic Society's a five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we live today.
The GLOBE Program GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program.
The Jason Project he JASON Project, founded in 1989 by Dr. Robert D. Ballard, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational organization headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Its mission is to inspire in students a life-long passion for learning in science, math, and technology through hands-on, real-world scientific discovery.
The Rosetta Project The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible online archive of ALL documented human languages.
The Tree of Life Web Project The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 4000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.
ThinkQuest ThinkQuest is all about students thinking and learning together. Students work in teams to create the best educational websites and compete for exciting prizes, including a trip toThinkQuest Live, an educational extravaganza celebrating their achievements.
Sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation, the competition offers a unique project-based learning experience to students and teachers around the world. Globally relevant subjects and diverse teams are encouraged.
The teams' websites are published for the world to see in the ThinkQuest Library. This rich online resource contains over 5,500 educational websites, created by students for students. Search the library and you'll be sure to find a site that intrigues you.
Thousand Cranes Peace Network This is an archival project from 1996-2000. The Thousand Cranes Peace Network is made up of groups and individuals who are willing to fold a thousand paper cranes (or as many as they can manage) as a symbol of their hope for, and commitment to, peace and non-violence, to be transported to Peace Parks and Monuments around the world.
UNESCO's Culture of Peace Project The Project Bank on this site allows you to identify the projects that are of interest to you according to your thematic and geographical criteria and obtain the following information for each project: identity, activities, resources offered and requested
World Peace Project for Children The purpose of the World Peace Project for Children is to promote world peace by educating children about global matters that concern them and by giving them tools to build positive connections with children in other cultures.
Global Nomads Group This organization fosters dialogs of understanding between the youth of the world. Topics include: Mozambique Alive and Islam and the US - a clash of cultures?
Adopt A Village Free the Children's Adopt a Village program helps villages in SouthEast Asia by sending pigs, sewing machines, medical supplies, etc. to a struggling family.
Children Helping Children This organization brings the plight of Children in emerging nations to the knowledge of children and adults in our own country in the hope that they will he inspired to help various established charities. It is not a charity and it does not specifically raise funds. It encourages donations to be given to specific charities of which first hand knowledge is available as to how the funds are spent.
Children to Children This site started by a 14 year old girl gives people the opportunty to donate eBags (emergency relief bags) to people who have been displaced due to disasters.
Free the Children Free the Children is an outstanding organization. The founder (now a young man) was only 12 years old when he founded the organization. It is an international network of children helping children.
JUMP. (Juveniles Use Media Power) Themission of JUMP is to empower global teens by giving them a voice and the skills to make media that makes a difference. This year we have two
JUMP clubs, one in Hawaii and one in Kenya. They will spend the month of
July together in Kenya creating media projects that will increase awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Partnership for Service Learning Offered in 14 countries, IPSL programs unite academic study and volunteer service, giving students a fully integrated study abroad experience.
The service enlivens the formal learning, and the learning informs the service. Both students and the host communities benefit from the substantial service each student gives. By studying at a local university and serving 15-20 hours per week in a school, orphanage, health clinic or other agency addressing human needs, students find their knowledge of the host culture--and of themselves-- take on greater depth and meaning.
Patriensa.com Patriensa is one of the 26 villages/towns within the Asante Akim district...On August 4, 2001, the village launched the first solar-powered telecentre, the Asante Akim Multipurpose Community Telecentre (AAMCT), in Ghana...GHACLAD is committed to the inclusion of Ghana and the rest of Africa in the mushrooming information technology movement and the empowerment of disadvantaged groups in rural and urban Ghana in gaining access to indigenous and emerging information communications technologies. The organization is committed to utilizing information for capacity building as a way to accelerate socio-economic development in rural and urban Ghana.
Remembering September 11th--Education World Education World offers five new lessons to help teachers commemorate the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the United States. These lessons will keep alive the spirit of patriotism and tolerance stimulated by the events of 9/11. Included: Students make a huge flag mural for your school or a proverb book for your classroom library, write letters to fire fighters in your community, read aloud books that model tolerance, raise money for Afghan children, more!
Terrorism and Children Purdue University Extension Specialist in Child development and family studies, has researched children's reactions to wars and disasters and offers advice for helping children cope with the terrorist attacks, and their aftermath.
The Grace Children's Foundaton Children and young adults from across the United States and beyond are organizing and participating in special events to help Chinese orphans.
Youth Service America YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA (YSA) is a resource center that partners with thousands of organizations committed to increasing the quality and quantity of volunteer opportunities for young people, ages 5-25, to serve locally, nationally, and globally.
