pre-2011 web resources

[Anonymous]

http://www.japander.com

a MUST SEE! check out the governator doing some insane commercials. this message greets you as you enter the site:

Pander:n., & v.t. 1. go-between in clandestine amours, procurer; one who ministers to evil designs. 2 v.i. minister (to base passions or evil designs, or person having these)
Japander:n.,& v.t. 1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use. ~er (see synecure, prostitute) 2. to make an ass of oneself in Japanese media.

This site could be used when dealing with themes like satire, celebrity, marketing manipulation, or some others i can't think of at the moment. enjoy!

[Anonymous]

This is an amazing website for all things Chinese:
http://www.chinapage.org/china.html

When you open the page, there is a grid of topics to choose -- poetry, dragons, festival days, learn Chinese, painters, callifgraphy, Zen Buddhism, etc. You click on one topic and you are taken to lists of resources from every period of Chinese history. There are paintings from the masters, poetry, quotations, photographs of the 3 Gorges Dam (picture or the month), etc.

I found a list of CHinese folk stories, and samples from the country's best calligraphers.

Among the quotations, here were two I thought seemed appropriate for teaching:

To learn without thinking is fruitless
To think without learning is dangerous.
Confucius

What you do not wish upon yourself,
Extend not to others.
Confucius

Courtney http://www.chinapage.org/china.html

[Anonymous]

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/top_e.html
I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website, hoping it might offer some kind of neat interactive experience or great pictures for my students to buzz about gleaning information. I would probably not use this site, it was average on the side of boring and somewhat difficult to use. I think today’s student would lose interest quickly.
The nicer parts of the site where the digital diagrams/maps of the museum, digital exhibition displays, and the transitions to the new pages were eye catching. There were a large number of choices to pick from, even a button called “stuff for kids.” I did check out the “images” section hoping for some interesting black and white photos of the city and people in the time after the bomb was dropped. There were images all right, colored pencil illustrations, nice but disappointing for my needs.

[Anonymous]

I was searching for a good site for students to check out calligraphy and ended up at
http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html
I was very impressed with the breadth and depth of the page and decided to check out the root site- chinapage.com which turned out to be an absolutely amazing resource with anything someone teaching about China could ask for. I goofed around for a bit and upon my return to the UCLA Asia page did an internal search for chinapage, secretly hoping that I had unwittingly unearthed the acme of China web resources, only to find Courtney's little flag had already been waving for some time.
This does not discount the surge of excitement I felt when I realized how special this site is. Always breaking information and examples down into their respective dynasties is something I'd like more informational sites to include. After spending some time on the site I realized this service is not applied throughout (the novels page doesn't provide dates of publication. The site is so full of stuff it becomes a time warp, like a good library or museum. So prepare to spend some time with the site and definitely encourage students to access it for research, homework, enrichment, or whatever it takes to get them to noodle around the site.
This is a site I will use for information/examples to supplement lessons in my classes.

[Anonymous]

I happened into this site quite accidentally and after checking it out for a spell, found it to be just the type of site that would hook a kid into another world. It's called syberpunk.com a self-proclaimed quirky Japanese collection. You, just like your students, will probably get a kick out of images of pet excercise machines, robotic beds, gameboy boots, video game stuff, and some others. The site is pretty limited, and I'm sure there are other sites with fun stuff to pique interest in Japan, but it does veer from the academic and into the equally fascinating world of pop culture. I really enjoyed the article about 2channel, a website that is apparently the most popular in Japan, that seems to be a bulletin board of messages and threads. That the millions of users would be anonymous causes contemplation. the article links to flash movies, some which are pretty intense (the kikkoman one with the wierd head).
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[Anonymous]

Wow, this website has alot of information about every aspect of chinese culture and history. It is also very comprehensive and easy to understand for students, with instructional guidance. What I found that is helpful for me as an art teacher is the page about "Classic Chinese Paintings" which lists paintings and artists from the Tang dynasty all the way up to the 20th century with a short bio about each artist.

I also liked reading about the dragon and seeing the pottery with the dragon emblems, though this was the only pottery I found on the site.

[Anonymous]

I think the most interesting and amusing thing about this website is the slogans on the product labels, such as Postonic water's "Rapidly moistens your body and gently softens your soul Postonic is life water for us all." Also, the signs section is a gas.

This site is useful when I teach drawing, because one project I like to do is have students create their own product labels. They can compare the Japanese labels to the American labels.[Edit by="bklank on Aug 3, 11:39:09 AM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

Is anyone as fond of Arianna Huffington's opinions as I am? Well, she has a website now at huffingtonpost.com. She has selected links and synopsis of various articles, as well as opinions of current issues such as the Rove issue in her blog section (where you can post your opinion too!!!)

This is useful in the classroom to keep students up on current issues, and also to show the what a political discussion forum looks like in the blog section.

[Anonymous]

Yixing.com

The official website for Yixing teapot information... where supposedly the first teapot was created. This site is useful for my ceramics class because it gives examples (pictures of teapots) and also background information about the teapots and the clay (purple clay) that Yixing is famous for.

[Anonymous]

http://www.holymtn.com/tea/Japanesetea.htm

Ok, so listen to this "Through tea, recognition is given that every human encounter is a singular occasion which can, and will, never recur again exactly." This is by far my favorite site that I have found about the japanese tea ceremony, and the one I am linking to my teapot page for my students to use. I think it is well organized, easy to read, and has some really good and relevant pictures with the text.

[Anonymous]

These are very educational web resources for modern China and Japan:
images, literature, articles:www.cnd.org/fairbank/prc.html
modern japan: http://www.gojapan.aboutcom/modernhistory/

[Anonymous]

I was unable to log into the website about Japan, but the one on China was excellent. Is the Japan website inactive? Help!

[Anonymous]

Just one word for the website: AWESOME.

I immediately added this to my list of favorites and intend to visit it on a regular basis. There are a couple of colleagues interested in next year's trip to Japan. I think this will give them a taste of one of the countries.

Thanks for sharing this website with us.

[Anonymous]

Interesting website. I have to look at it more carefully. It could be a resource for teaching some of the subtleties of language and writing styles.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

This website sounds great. I will have my humanities students explore. We are looking for a place to get pen pals. any ideas?

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