Tools & guides

This page includes online teaching guides and resources relating to valuing diversity and multiculturalism, links to interactive “virtual classrooms”, hints & tips on using social media sites and apps in the classroom, and teaching guides on e-learning.

Tools & guides for valuing diversity

• NSW Public Schools: multicultural education resources – http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/learning/yrk12focusareas/multiculted/index.php
• Making Multicultural Australia: e-learning objects – http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/learning/
• Racism No Way: Australia’s Cultural Diversity – http://www.racismnoway.com.au/library/cultural/
• Racism No Way: e-learning challenges – http://www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/e_challenges/
• ACARA: Intercultural Understanding as a General Capability – http://www.acara.edu.au/general_capabilities.html
• Department of Immigration & Citizenship: Harmony Day lesson plans – http://www.harmony.gov.au/harmony-day/schools/teachers/lesson-plans/plan-09.htm
• Harmony Day website – http://www.movingforwardtogether.com.au/
• Building Bridges: Creating a Culture of Diversity – http://www.teachingdiversity.org.au/
• Edna’s Global Education Portal: teacher resources supporting the integration of a global perspective across the curriculum – http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page1.html
• Human Rights Commission Education Resources –
1. Being Me, Knowing You (2010) – http://www.humanrights.gov.au/education/being_me_knowing_you/index.html
2. Voices of Australia – http://www.humanrights.gov.au/education/voices_of_australia/index.html
3. Bringing Them Home – http://www.humanrights.gov.au/education/bringing_them_home/index.html
4. Face the Facts – http://www.humanrights.gov.au/education/face_the_facts/index.html
• Dept. of Education Employment & Workplace Relations (DEEWR): values education for Australian schooling – http://www.valueseducation.edu.au/values/
• Dept. of Education Employment & Workplace Relations (DEEWR): values education in intercultural and global contexts – http://www.valueseducation.edu.au/values/val_values_ed_cpl_resources_3_intercultural_global,29271.html
• Oxfam’s “Educators Shaping Change” Blog – http://www.oxfam.org.au/blogs/category/educators-shaping-change/
• UNESCO Culture of Peace website – http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/uk/uk_sum_cp.htm
• EdChange “Critical Multicultural Pavilion” – http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/index.html
• Rethinking Schools – http://www.rethinkingschools.org/index.shtml

Tools & guides for online exchange

• Guide to Social e-Learning (Australian Flexible Learning Framework) – http://socialelearning.flexiblelearning.net.au/social_elearning/index.htm
• Bridging the Digital Divide: Engaging young people in programs that use ICT to promote civic participation and social connectedness (Inspire Foundation/Orygen Youth Health Research Centre) – http://www.hellomedical.com/media/link/document/924
• Guide to going Google (Google Apps for education) - http://edu.googleapps.com/ 
• 50 awesome ways to use Skype in the classroom – http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/06/30/50-awesome-ways-to-use-skype-in-the-classroom/
• Mashable’s 100+ online resources transforming education - http://mashable.com/2011/01/07/online-education-websites/
• How to use Yammer in the classroom (Centre for Learning Innovation) – http://lrrpublic.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/lrrSecure/Sites/Web/t4u_yammer/index.htm?Signature=(e641f40c-767b-4631-9610-047d7bd8b05b)
• Using Ning for Educational Social Networks (Ning.com) – http://education.ning.com/
• Classroom 2.0 (Educators’ Social Network) – http://www.classroom20.com/
• EduBlogs: world’s most popular education blogging service – http://edublogs.org/
• Tactical Technology Collective on “Infoactivism” – http://archive.tacticaltech.org/infoactivism
• eLearning in schools (edna forum) - http://www.groups.esa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=2579 
• The evolution of classroom technology – http://edudemic.com/2011/04/classroom-technology/
• Narrative forms in the Digital Classroom (Vanderbilt University) - http://youtu.be/i71sTxCl4CY 
• How online education is changing the way we learn (article) – http://mashable.com/2011/06/11/online-education-infographic/