website evaluations - USC US-China Institute

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November 14, 2005 at 5:15 am #5758

Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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The Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization website: http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/, would be a good source for students researching China. It is organized well: it is arranged by subtopics such as Buddhism, calligraphy and ancient tombs. Clicking on the subtopics will get you written text about the subtopic, pictures, and suggested reading for further research. In my World Humanities course, students must research a culture and present it to the class: this website would be a good place to start for students researching China. They could find subtopics for future study, as well as other sources to go to for information.

November 14, 2005 at 5:43 am #34537

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The Korea Society's web site, http://www.koreasociety.org, is a great site from teachers because there are sets of printable lesson plans, created by past fellows of the organization. I was interested in one lesson that provided study questions for Richard Kim's Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood; Richard Kim lived in northern Korean prior to and during World War II. The study questions direct students to understand the political and social conditions in Korea and to relate Confucian ideals to everyday situations. I have ordered Lost Names from Amazon; I am hoping to use it in my class (maybe during literature circles, or an excerpt possibly) so these study questions will serve me well. Other lesson plans included geography lessons, lessons on poetry, and social/political issues--the lessons are geared to middle or high school students. Also, the website has a calendar of events--lectures and cultural activities put on by the Korea Society in southern California--there seemed to be some interesting ones. Also, the Korea Society sponsors a fellowship for high school teachers--the application is also on the site. Happy hunting!

November 14, 2005 at 6:01 am #34538

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There is a wonderful timeline of art history at http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePageLink=toah_1, it is organized by culture. Go to Asia Art, and then the artwork is organized by culture, so, there is a section on Korean, Japanese and Chinese art, among others. Within those regions, you can find religious art--Buddhist art and the like--as well as landscapes and other genres of art. What a goldmine this is: if you are studying a region of Asia (or any part of the world for that matter), you can send students to this site to search for an art piece from that region; then students could analyze what the art piece says about the culture you are studying. A presentation or discussion could follow in class. Great!

November 14, 2005 at 6:14 am #34539

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Another good background site on Korea is from Korean Village Folk Museum: http://www.koreanfolk.co.kr/folk/english/index.htm. It has two subtopics: Korean History and Korean Culture. The Korean History section covers the time from the birth of Korea to the present day; the culture section explores Korea's folk beliefs, festivals, dances and crafts. The site includes readable written text and pictures that illuminate the various subtopics. Again, this site would be good to send students to who are researching the Korean culture for the first time; the information on the site is pretty basic--so it would be a good launching pad for research.

November 14, 2005 at 6:32 am #34540

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For information on the Japan of Today, go to Japan Information Network, http://jin.jcic.or.jp, and use the Web Japan Section. It is a compiliation of news articles on modern Japan. Web Japan is edited by Japan Echo, and is "based on domestic Japanese news sources." The site is organized by topic: lifestyle, fashion, business/economy, sports, people, and science/technology. There are some great articles-- an article on fashion that beats the heat, or at least blocks the sun; another on cell phone covers called "Is it a phone? Or an Octopus?"; several on Japanese anime. One that particularly interested me was about a director who is merging Kabuki and Shakespeare into a single performance; he says that since they both started around 400 years ago, they share similarities already--so why not merge them? I can still use this website for my students when they are researching the Japanese culture. I think that students typically turn to encyclopedias for research--which leaves them with a culture's origins, some history, and much outdated information. This site will give them a contemporary view of Japan; not to mention, the articles are accessible, interesting, and on topics that would be of direct interest to students! I love it!

November 14, 2005 at 6:56 am #34541

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The website titled The Mishima Yukio Cyber Museum provides several links of interesting information: the history of his life, a list of his works, and the Cyber Museum. What I expect will be the best part of this site is not running yet. The Cyber Museum will be a cyber tour of an actual museum devoted entirely to Mishima. The Cyber museum will not be available until Sept of 1996. Then there will be 1,500 items that people can examine through the site. The link that will eventually connect to the cyber museum currently has some information and an option for people to share their own artifacts with the museum. The site is interesting but will be much more so after September.

http://www.vill.yamanakako.yamanashi.jp/bungaku/mishima/index-e.html

November 15, 2005 at 11:05 am #34542

clay dube
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Hi Folks,
These are outstanding evaluations! You are doing a great job locating resources and assessing their potential value to teachers.

Please share these with all the teachers in our forum -- post film reviews in the Asia in My Classroom forum thread entitled "film festival" and please post website reviews in the web resources thread of the Asia in My Classroom forum.

There's no need to move these, though, they are terrific.

Let's use the Torrance forum to discuss seminar presentations and Torrance-specific issues.

January 2, 2006 at 5:37 am #34543

Anonymous
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Well ... January 30th is already upon us and if you are like me you are perhaps panicking a little too!

This is why I would like to share a web site I found that is basically exactly what we are expected to do for the multi-day lesson plan. Check out http://www.oia.osu.edu/ncta/lessons.html

The site has all subjects and it looks as though it is a very similiar institute for educators as ours but based in Ohio.

Hope it helps and if anyone has other tips, I'd gladly hear about them!

January 2, 2006 at 8:48 am #34544

Anonymous
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While checking around to learn more about Mishima, I came across this site, which is short but provided some interesting information. I was not previously familiar with Mishima's plays and enjoy the idea of a work about Marquis de Sade called _Madame de Sade_, (1965). Mishima exlores the Marquis from the female perspective. Of course, this may be too mature or seedy for high school students.

Another play title that caught my eye is _My Friend Hitler_, (1969).

Mishima also wrote Kabuki and "was considered to be in his time the only living author talented enough to write Kabuki plays in traditional style. "

The site provides a brief glimpse of his works with passages and some biographical information.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mishima.htm

January 2, 2006 at 8:59 am #34545

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Attempting to learn more about the Mishima play _My Friend Hitler_, I came across this site. Unfortunately, it appears mainly to be an way to purchase a book. What I was shopping for was more information.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231126328.HTM

January 8, 2006 at 6:08 am #34546

Anonymous
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After asking if anyone could recommend materials about The Great Wall or the Three Gorges Dam, I went to the UCLA Asia Institute: Curriculum Resources website and found several good websites, books, and videos. Thank you Clay and Asia Institute. You can access the website from the home page of the Asia in the K-12 Classroom (http://www.international.ucla.edu/eas/web/curric-web.htm). It's arranged so that you can explore curriculum resources by grade level, country/region, subject/topic, or sources. There's also a very helpful "Google Search of the Asia Institute", with which I found a number of sources on the Three Gorges Dam.

January 15, 2006 at 8:36 am #34547

Anonymous
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Well, the long week-end is here and at the top of my agenda is to get this website well underway. All I can say is ... wow is this taking a lot of time!! Tell me I am not the only one who is somewhat overwhelmed?!?

Okay, no more feeling sorry for myself -- I need to complete what I started so I thought that to help others who feel my angst I'd share with you a list of the Top 10 websites which in my opinion, after spending hours and hours (honestly, where does all the time go?) on the Internet searching for content and examples, are worthwhile taking a look at.

By the way, there are so many fabulous sites out there we could already use in our classroom ... could we link them to our site, with directions to our students on what to do there? Perhaps we can discuss some of this in Tuesday night's class. I suppose that a much smaller, one unit based site is expected.

While I am thinking about it -- can anyone point me to where those websites of former participants are located. Thanks.

So check out the attached listing of what I feel are sites that will direct you quickly to what we should be focusing on for our project. Don't get lost in cyberspace 😀 [Edit by="rterry on Jan 15, 4:37:39 PM"][/Edit]

January 21, 2006 at 4:27 am #34548

Anonymous
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Well, it has been almost a week since you posted regarding your website woes and I am just starting to feel your pain. I am a lifetime procrastinator and yet it has been a long time since I have felt this overwhelmed.

I am excited about the prospect of my website but right now I am feeling like I have too much information and no good way for it to translate into an educational website for my students.

I have about 5 hours of grading to do before Monday and then it will just be review and finals. I think that starting tomorrow it will be Asia Full throttle.

Also, thanks for you top ten website list it is great!

January 29, 2006 at 5:18 am #34549

Anonymous
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I can relate. I think my topic was just too broad--TONS of info. Oh well, they are all good resources students can use to get started on researching topics for my class. I haven't been putting it off, but it just mushroomed and took a lot longer than I planned Now that we have run into finals/grades (due the same day) at school, I am very worried about ending up with the quality finished product that I've been invisioning...

January 29, 2006 at 6:28 am #34550

Anonymous
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There are a lot of fun websites on travel to Japan. Japan Travel Information-World Travel was an interesting one. The website:gojapan.com. On the main page are a number of interesting topics: Food Theme Parks (sounds fun--
Gyoza stadium/a Curry Museum etc...)
Cherry Blossom Festival
Sumo
etc...
There are also links to: clickable maps of japan / travel tips /T he Best of Tourist Attractions(shopping /Festivals/Parks etc...). There is a section where you can ask questions or advice on "things Japanese".
The site also connects to travel resources: Cheap Tickets U.S.-Japan
Visitors Guide
Accomadations
Tours
Etc...
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