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National Archives
This site had original artwork and technical drawings commissioned by the U.S. government. With so much secondary and tertiary information and disinformation available today, it is vital to be able to trust your sources. With primary sources like these, students know that they are getting first-hand information. They still need to verify the facts but at least they can feel more secure to start.

NEA
American Indians & Alaska Natives, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders, Hispanic/Latinos, African-Americans are some groups that are at risk

I don’t like to reinvent the wheel so I’m drawn to areas that deal with collaboration. For instance, networking with other schools that are already developing and incorporating culturally sensitive curriculum and systems, while I build a network of ‘natural helpers’ are two ways to use solutions that have already been tested and proven. The third area that I think is crucial is determining the diverse groups of your school and how they are accessing current services, since knowing your class and community is imperative to promoting multiculturalism.
Once you become aware of the make-up of your school and meet the people in the neighborhood, You can help them access the current services available and at the same time, they can help you determine what additional resources may be needed to help their students fulfill there potential.
Cyber Bullying
http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/kids/index.html
Being a person who doesn't believe in bullying, I scored 100% on the test.I was interested to find out about the groups Teenangel.org and Tweenangel.org. Teaching these children about the 4P’s of privacy, predators, pornography and piracy is important and the way that they can then convey that information to their peers is even more valuable. As adults, it is difficult to know everything the kids (and predators) are doing in cyberspace, and I think it is important that these children are also acting as watchdogs for new issues and ploys that are constantly arising. I think this group would be a great resource for a classroom teacher, as students often tend to appreciate and believe the knowledge of their peers rather than adults in areas like cyberspace.


Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Under special interest, I looked up a section called ‘Cool Quotes’. This page had hundreds of different types of quotes. I can use this in the classroom all the time, as I think a great sentence can make a lasting impact on a child or an adult. Under teachers help, I looked at Assessments and Rubric Information, which gave actual rubrics and assessments that could be used for several different areas of study. This is another area that I can use consistently in the classroom—Once again why re-invent the wheel when someone else has already done it?


Multiple Intelligences
Logical-Mathematical and Interpersonal: 63 Naturalistic and Verbal-Linguistic: 42 I learned that perhaps we are trying to teach too much information in the schools, and are thus actually limiting the amount of information remembered by the students. He used the example of science and physics to relate the idea that it is more important to get students to understand scientific thinking then to memorize a formula. I agree as everyone needs to know how to think scientifically and not everyone needs to know the specific formula of how fast a ball will hit the ground after being thrown off a roof!


Tolerance
I chose middle grades, math and science, all topics. The lesson that I liked had students learning about advertising and building a group brand. The students were in groups of 4 or 5, each individual answered a questionnaire and then a brand name was developed based on similarities found between the students. Finding common bonds is crucial in creating a classroom community and I would like to do this activity more than once with different groups so that more children could find things in common; this is a wonderful way to show the students that people are more alike than they are different.


Edchange Multicultural Education
I was shocked to find out that 84.5% of teachers rarely or never responded to derogatory remarks concerning gay, lesbian and transgender students. This question raised more questions for me like do they respond to other derogatory remarks, are they homophobic, have they given up? I was also blown away by the fact that the average American only earns in a year what the average CEO earns in a day. While I completely believe in Capitalism, this salary discrepancy seems excessive, especially during the current economic crisis.



Netiquette
Take the Quiz: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/netiquiz.html
100% on quiz. If we are going to use technology to enhance our teaching and expect our students to be conversant with it, then it is obvious that we need to teach the Netiquette skills along with the technical skills. It is a vital component in the whole technology curriculum. 8-)