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Back to School (online video)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/school2/index.html
Back to School (online video)
Back to School is the second installment of Time for School, the multi-year project launched in 2003 when Wide Angle profiled seven children in seven countries – Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya, and Romania – starting their first year of school, often despite great odds. Returning in 2006, we find that some are already hanging onto their enrollment by a thread.

Can you trust this 100 people village thing?
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/populate.htm
Can you trust this 100 people village thing?
This thing has been circulating for ages (in Internet time) now, and people seem to find the contrasts it highlights between the "haves" and "have-nots" of the world compelling.
However, much of the information it presents is questionable, out of date, or poorly-defined:

The World as 100 People
http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/warnenu.htm
The World as 100 People
If 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 ....

Book Talk Series: Center for Multicultural Education
http://depts.washington.edu/centerme/booktalks.htm
Book Talk Series
The Book Talk Series features books by Center Faculty, Center Faculty Affiliates, and other authors related to issues of diversity, equity, and education. The Series provides an opportunity for Center Faculty and other authors to discuss their work with the broader education community
Center for Multicultural Education .... not really a BookTalk in the eaducation sense ... more like authors talking about thei work.

Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education
http://www.eastern.edu/publications/emme/
Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education
An open-access e-journal published twice a year for international scholars, practitioners, and students of multicultural education, EMME is committed to providing a forum in which scholarly and practical ideas can be exchanged to strengthen the theories and practices of multicultural education.
Uniquely theme-oriented, each issue of EMME contains articles, instructional ideas, and reviews of arts, juvenile and professional books, and multimedia materials on a particular theme. EMME also publishes articles that discuss broad topics of multicultural education beyond specific issue themes.

The Intercultural Cross Cultural Teaching Portal
http://www.icctp.net/
The Intercultural Cross Cultural Teaching Portal
The Intercultural Cross Cultural Teaching Portal aims to establish communities of diverse P-16 educators, service professionals and students who are learning, working, teaching or preparing to teach in a professional educational environment. By coming together, we share our commitments and concerns as we review and recapture our experiences in facing the challenges of educating all children. We want to create spaces specifically for individuals of the same cultural background to communicate with and learn from each other.
In addition to consolidating numerous online teaching resources, there are four main interactive features of the portal: Animated Vignettes, Caucus Group discussion forums, the 'Ask a Professional' interface, and finally the Site Survey.

Global Education News
http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/news
Global Education News
Subscribe to the Global Education Newsletter to receive a newsletter each month updating you on the additions to the Global Education web site, updates on current issues and professional development around Australia.

Global Educators Register
http://www.vso.org.uk/resources/global_educators_register.asp
Global Educators Register
The Global Educators Register (GER) is a national online register of professionals (not only teachers) with international experience, who are committed to global education and schools partnerships, and have a willingness to assist teachers, schools and their communities.
The register is free for schools to use.

Guide to International Collaboration on the www
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/guide_pg2.html
Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
As you begin to explore the possibilities for cross-cultural interaction, global classroom projects, and new learning opportunities, the following organizations can assist you in your efforts.

International Collaboration on the Internet
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tech/international/index.html
Teacher's 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.
This guide is designed for online access. On every page, teachers will find many projects and suggestions to begin or expand classroom projects that reach across the globe.
In every section of this on-line guide, we have also provided links to elementary, middle and high school projects and links to organizations that are involved in international education via the Internet.

TakingITGlobal
http://www.takingitglobal.org/
TakingITGlobal is an international organization - led by youth and empowered by technology. TakingITGlobal connects youth around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local and global communities.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with a growing worldwide presence, the organization's flagship program?TakingITGlobal.org, serves as the most popular online community for young people interested in connecting across cultures and making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each month.
TakingITGlobal works with global partners ?from UN agencies, to major companies, and especially youth organizations ?to build the capacity of youth for development, artistic and media expression, make education more engaging, and involve young people in global decision-making.

School Multicultural Education Policy Archives UK
http://www.schoolpolicy.co.uk/
School Multicultural Education Policy Archives UK

The Miniature Earth
http://www.miniature-earth.com/
The Miniature Earth
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following ....

Multicultural Education links
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/lem/multi/mlink.htm
Multicultural Education links
Victoria, Australia

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
http://www.ecai.org/
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
This site features cartographic tools for "visualizing and analyzing historical and cultural phenomena." Users may create "maps based on a theme, era and region."
Create digital maps that display a wide range of cultural material by using place and time as a common element.
ECAI technical infrastructure illustrates the vision of sharing distributed data and using time enabled mapping tools.
Create online projects and publications in various formats. See examples created by ECAI affiliates.
Collaborate to identify research topics and develop standards, best practices, and technical solutions.

Y Forum
http://www.yforum.com/welcome1.html
Y Forum : Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask gets tackled here.
Welcome. Consider yourself a volunteer in a unique experiment that's making headlines worldwide by daring people to talk about their differences.
Y?, the first and only site of its kind, gives you a way to ask people from other ethnic or cultural backgrounds the questions you've always been too embarrassed or uncomfortable to ask them. If you have the courage to ask, Y? will evaluate your question, consider it for posting and try to get someone from that background to answer. If needed, we'll get an expert to weigh in.

Example and sample school multicultural policies from NCSL
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/index.cfm?pageID=managing-policies-documents
Example and sample school multicultural/Anti-racist policy policies from NCSL National College for School Leadership (UK)

Multicultural Education links in Australia
http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/browse/20501,4794,13891,14153
Multicultural Education links and resources on the Edna portal in Australia
civics | citizenship | cross curriculum |

Library of Congress (USA) Portals of the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
Library of Congress (USA) Portals of the World
Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. When completed, the project will include all the nations of the world.

International Business Culture
http://www.executiveplanet.com/
International Business Culture

iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
http://www.iearn.org/projects/project_list.html
iEARN (International Education and Resource Network)
... a non-profit organization made up of over 15,000 schools in 100 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Approximately 750,000 - 1,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world.

The mother-tongue dilemma
http://www.unesco.org/education/education_today/ed_today6.pdf
The mother-tongue dilemma
Educators are increasingly convinced of the value of multilingual education, and studies show that children learn better in their mother tongue.
The July issue of UNESCO's education newsletter, Education Today, highlights how emotional this whole issue is and outlines the huge political and economic obstacles.
This issue also features two successful experiences in educating street children in Burundi and Guatemala. And it reports on the Fast-Track Initiative set up to accelerate funding to education for all.
literacy | multilingual | ESL | EAL |

Education in a Multilingual World
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001297/129728e.pdf
Education in a Multilingual World dealing with the issue of Languages and Education .. UNESCO publication.
Multilingual contexts | The challenge for education systems | The normative framework for languages and education | United Nations standard-setting instruments | UNESCO declarations and conventions | Outcomes from international conferences | UNESCO guidelines on language and education |

Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research
http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/
Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research - University of Southern California
The Center is an organized research unit at the University of Southern California, facilitating the research collaboration, dissemination and professional development activities of faculty, students, and others across School of Education, university and outside organizational lines.

United Nations Cyber Bus
http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus
United Nations Cyber Bus - global teaching and learning project
Lots of information and projects including....
Model UN Headquarters Everything you need to know: what it is, how to start a club, and how to get ready for the world's most fascinating simulation. FAQs, tips, links, and forums.
Days of the Year Commemorate special days and anniversaries such as Human Rights Day, Peace Day and more...
Country at A Glance Pick UN Member States and view their statistics - one at a time.
InfoNation Compare statistical data for several UN Member States.
Flag Tag Do you know lots of flags? Tag the right one! Test yourself...
Water Quiz - Discover fascinating facts about everyone's favorite liquid.
flags | flag | UN | water | country | countries | statistics |

Jigsaw classroom
http://www.jigsaw.org/
Welcome to the official web site of the jigsaw classroom, a cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience.

Global Eye
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/
A magazine for schools about world development written by Worldaware for the Department for International Development (DFID).

Guide to Products for the Multilingual Classroom
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/200104/classroom.html
Terms for the Multilingual Classroom | Using Technology To Involve Parentsc | Questions to Ask Vendors | What Is a Multilingual Classroom? | Tips for Choosing Good ESL/EAL Software and Web Products |

Global Gang
http://www.globalgang.org.uk/
News, games.... from around the world.

Multicultural Pavilion: Teacher's Corner
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural/teachers.html
...a list of resources for educators to learn from and use to support the incorporation of multicultural education in the classroom

The Multicultural Pavilion
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/centers/multicultural/home.html
Multicultural education resources adn dialogues for students, educators and activists.

Jennifer's Language Page
http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/
At this site you can learn to say several words and phrases in hundres of different lanuages. e.g. say "Hello" in more than 400 languages / "Goodbye" in more than 250 / "Welcome" in more than 120 / "Please" in more than 150 / ...... and lots-lots more.

Global Dimension
http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/
A recent MORI poll found that four out of five middle and secondary school pupils believe it is important to learn about global issues at school. They also feel that it is important to understand global matters in order to make choices about how they want to lead their lives. Yet although many teachers would like to tackle these issues, they often suffer from a lack either of resources, or of sufficient background information to allow them to tackle such complex issues with confidence.
The aim of this website is to help teachers gain access to these things.

ASCD: OnLine Tutorial
http://webserver2.ascd.org/tutorials/tutorial2.cfm?ID=20&TITLE=Multicultural%20Education
OnLine multimedia tutorial
Multicultural education helps students to understand and appreciate cultural differences and similarities and to recognize the accomplishments of diverse ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups. Classroom materials portray these diverse groups realistically and from a variety of perspectives.

The Hunger Site
http://www.thehungersite.com/
I'm not quite sure if this is the right area for this link .... BUT .... all you do is go to this site and click a button and some hungry person somewhere in the world gets a meal at no costs to you (paid by sponsors). The World Map that is displayed has countries blink each time someone dies of hunger. Geography/Social Studies