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Multicultural Supersite

http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/ - Paul Gorski

“The Supersite is authored by Dr. Paul Gorski, Coordinator of the Student Intercultural Learning Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, and founder and author of the Multicultural Pavilion…The Supersite opened in December 1999, and is updated monthly with new material.” (quoted from About the Supersite)

This is a simple to use site with the following sections:

·        Defining Multicultural Education

·        Multicultural Philosophy Series

·        Curriculum Transformation

·        Promising Practices

·        Intercultural Activities

·        Discussion Forum

·        Multicultural Library

·        Multicultural SuperLinks

I like this site because it contains good content and is easy to use. It is well organized and seems to be current. It is aimed at educators and includes a lesson plan / activities section. It is well referenced and lists many useful resources. There is information on some schools where multicultural programs are flourishing. There is also a forum area where threaded discussions are possible. From what I can see it does not seem to be well used, so its usefulness may be diminished, but at least it is there and it has the potential to be very powerful.

The site is powered by “McGraw-Hill” and as far as I can tell, this does not hamper the site. There is a section where you can order their books, but overall the profit taking side of the business is unobtrusive (I appreciate that).

It is not a terribly deep site, but it is a good place to start. The entire site seems to be written by a single author, Paul Gorski, a professor at the University of Maryland. I guess a Canadian site with Canadian authors would be more appropriate for our purposes.