WEB Resources for ED 419

Distance Education Support:

Paula McMillen is the Distance Education Librarian.  This link describes her role in your learning.

This link describes the Valley Library Support Services available for Distance Education Students.

Hubs:

In Spring 1998, one team put together a web site with links to areas of interest in multicultural education.  The links on this site are often changed; the list has value, but use with caution.

Multicultural Education and the Internet is part of the Multicultural Pavilion Internet Project from the University of Virginia.  This site from their school of education is written by Paul Gorski and contains many useful connections and insights.

Teacher Talk is published by the Center for Adolescent Studies at the School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington,IN. It is a publication for preservice and secondary education teachers that exists as a series of World Wide Web documents. Anyone is welcome to use these resources as long as they indicate that the article or lesson plan is a part of Teacher Talk which belongs to Indiana University.

This page gives links to some of the material in Valley Library on diversity issues.  You may find good links to many other resources in the library from here.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this site ams to be a compreshensive resource (both Web and otherwise) for K-12 math and science teachers.  Virtually everything you want to know about innovative teaching methods and field developments are here, including, for the practical teachers among us, complete sets of activities and lesson plans.  I have included this resource as part of ED 419 because OSU has an Eisenhower grant to help us develop preservice teacher skills working with a diverse student population.  The site has some connections for such strategies.

Destinations:

This site is for the business community, but has useful information for cross-cultural communications of other kinds.  The Mission Statement:  "The Web of Culture seeks to inform business professionals on the topic of cross-cultural communications. If you are planning to conduct business with a foreign counterpart, The Web of Culture should be your first stop of your journey to cultural success! "

This article, "Varieties of Multicultural Education: An Introduction," by Gary Burnett, begins to indicate the complexity and wide scope of this topic.  It connects to abstracts of books and articles by some of the major players in the field of multicultural education like Banks, Sleeter, Nieto.

This 37 page report about resegration in the nation's public schools is disturbing to say the least.  Links to other useful information.

Short article with specific suggestions working with immigrant and migrant children.  Most of the suggestions would work with any group of children!

I found this while surfing once and although I have not read it, it is interesting to know that such research is out there.  This could be read (in part or whole) as a contribution to our class annotated bibliography.

Racial and Gender Identity Development in White Male Multicultural and Diversity Educators and Facilitators:  Toward Individual Processes of Self-development.
ABSTRACT:
This study was conducted to examine the white identity development and male identity development of white males involved in multicultural teaching and facilitating. Narrative data was collected from four white males, including the researcher, to address three issues:
1) the experiences instrumental in the participant's immersion into multicultural work,
2) the participant's white identity development and process for self-examination, and
3) the participant's male identity development and process for self-examination.

This is probably the strangest link I will put on this page.  I wish my web course looked like this.  (This isn't Princeton, either).  Anyway, the list of readings from this course may be of interest to some of you.

A friend of mine sent this site with this note, "Here's an excellent website from a professor at San Diego State University that you may want to use with 419 students.  I just went through the African American Holocaust link and it was emotionally wrenching. I almost didn't send this to you, but I know that you're all too aware of anything you would see there."

This site displays selections from a monster collection of quotations.  The one I happened upon was my favorite a month ago, "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."  From Lily Tomlin.