Alright, so it's not Wednesday anymore. I think I need to not take on such large topics in the future. Live and learn. Anyway I'll do my best with the topic for this week: Part III of Race, Gender and Student Achievement is titled "Racial/Ethnic Identity and Multicultural Understanding." How's that for a mouth-full!

I started finding sites with "Multicultural" in their agenda, but as you all know, that can mean a million things. But to start, here are some general Multicultural resource places on the web:

• Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Multicultural Curriculum Resource
• The National Multicultural Institute is a good site and has a great list of related links.
• And try the Multicultural Pavilion at the University of Virginia.
• The Multicultural Arts Print series from the Getty Foundations ArtsEdNet

"The Multicultural Art Print Series consists of thirty art prints and curriculum materials developed by the Center over the last six years. They provide a powerful way to teach about diverse cultures and peoples through their art.The online version of this material includes images, discussions of the artworks' cultural context, historical background, and media."

Tammy Mitchell here at the Fund recommended this website -- Black Voices -- with links to communication forums, afro-centric news, entertainment, home/health resources, and a bunch more.

Renie Manzano recommended these:

• The Puerto Rican/Hispanic Genealogical Society has a website with information on how to conduct and family history research and support networks for doing it.
• LatinoLink is an overall resource.
• This Puerto Rico-Boriken Cultural and History site talks about Puerto Rican culture and it's roots from Spain, African, and Taino ancestors. It has real time music too that plays when you log on!

And, trying to think of the populations of kids in the Philadelphia public schools and work that is taught, (although I'm know I don't have all it), I found these resources:

• Black History Archive has tons of great stuff.
• Chinese Cultural and Historical Project
• Inkstone, an Asian American identity magazine
• Here's a resource list on Southeast Asian websites put together by a professor at Rutgers University which is part of the overall website called "Experiencing Southeast Asia in the Delaware Valley" that might be of interest to all you local folks.
• Jewish Culture and History
• Holocaust Museum Educational Resources
• Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors

• Make Intercultural Email Connections!
• NickNacks also supports Telecollaboration around the world for teachers and kids.

• Non-English fonts

• The Himalayas - Where Earth Meets Sky

"Himalayas - Where Earth Meets Sky is a culmination of about 8 months of dedicated collaboration among three high school students and their coaches from separate continents. The project forms an entry in ThinkQuest (1997), an annual contest that challenges students to use the Internet as a collaborative teaching and learning tool. The project started when three students, Debangsu Sengupta of India, Simon Wisselink of the Netherlands and Yian Cheng of the USA met each other over the internet last year."

-- Christina

• Race, Gender and Student Achievement! 
• Part I, General Diversity Resources (11/19)
• Part II, Gender and Sexual Orientaton Resources (11/26)
• Part IV, Websites that are interactive and integrate the Internet into the classroom about Diversity and Multicultural Understanding (12/10)