RSS

It is a revolutionary way to get information over the web. The idea is awesome that one can get updated notice or the information piece by one log-in. I would like to use it for class for keeping up information from different web-sites. ELL students need to know background information and vocabulary from the different fields of studies. They can add something they're interested in reading, but I would recommend useful sites for them because I'm afraid to have too many reading list at one time. RSS is a good way to approach information at once, still it is reader's job to choose what to read.

iPhoto

Calling to Jim, originally uploaded by Kay0610.

Smart Board was actually smarter than me! It was a very interesting tool to play with. I wish I have more chances to learn how to use it.

Trading Card - K

Multicultural Education

"Multicultural education is a field of study and an emerging discipline whose major aim is to create equal educational opportunities for students from diverse racial, ethnic, social-class, and cultural groups. One of its important goals is to help all students to acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society and to interact, negotiate, and communicate with peoples from diverse groups in order to create a civic and moral community that works for the common good."
Banks and Banks (1995)
There are many ways to use online image generators as a supplemantary tool for multicultural education.

Hello, Flicker!

Flicker is a good image storage that I can use in the ESL classroom.
There are many cultural topics in the ESL classroom since students are from different cultural backgrounds. ELL students can use real pictures to introduce their cultures to the classmates by actually showing it. They also can develop using computer skills while playing with it. It is important to know basic skills and to familiar with it because many English tests are Internet-based in nowadays.