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The Global Gathering Place: Exploring the Ethnocultural Diversity of Canada on the WebLeslie Chan & William Barek, University of Toronto at Scarborough Subsidiary
Session: Museum Applications: Museums in Classrooms
The Global Gathering Place is a joint initiative between the Multicultural
History Society of Ontario (MHSO), the Centre for Instructional Technology
Development at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, and the Scarborough
Board of Education. The primary goal of this project is to make available
electronically the rich and diverse archival resources housed at the
MHSO to students and teachers engaged in multicultural education and
social studies. Using multimedia presentations of historical case studies,
life histories, and cultural resources of the MHSO, the project will
help teachers bring diversity alive in the classroom. The use of the
collaborative tools of the World-Wide Web and classroom projects will
help students and teachers create a classroom atmosphere in which local
family, ethnic and immigration history can come together as Canadian
history. Students are not only encouraged to use the resources but also
contribute to the growing archive of living and shared histories. The
project will be designed to achieve specific learning outcomes, and
will provide opportunities for students to work together and learn from
one another across institutional and cultural boundaries. Finally, the
project also provides the opportunity for evaluating the effective means
of integrating electronic resources and telecommunication tools into
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