pre-2011 web resources

[Anonymous]

This is an interesting site, great for helping kids find scholarly sites on the web instead of the wacky world of webbing:

http://scholar.google.com

Currently in beta testing, Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and articles that appear only in books or other offline publications.

LOL,
Chris Carter

[Anonymous]

I mean no snub to UCLA, but Columbia has a great site to help with teaching in Asia:

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu

Featuring a variety of lesson plans, curriculum units, and other teaching materials categorized by subject area and time period, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels. This site has it all! Pull down menues give you units & lesson plans, suggested websites suggested materials for purchase (texts, videos, etc.)

This is a site that you must see if you are looking for ideas ... after checking out the UCLA Asia Institute, of course!

LOL,
Chris Carter

[Anonymous]

Here's a fantastic webquest on China:

The Chinese Cultural Revolution WebQuest

"Even those who actually lived through a particular historical period will have different perspectives of what it meant - for them, for others like them, for those who were different to them and for their society as a whole." Each member of your team will become an expert in one individual/family's experience during this time in Chinese history. Then you'll have to come back together to answer a question that gets to the heart of "what's the truth and who says so?'' Question: "How did Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution affect the lives of ordinary Chinese - at home and abroad?"

Well-supported investigation.

Excellent Role Questions and Links. This supports students' acquisition of information that they can then transform into understanding.

The separate Synthesis Guide and its support pages are a great model for others to emulate.

This is an outstanding example of how to go beyond the Web-and-Flow template.

Look, you get to be one of six people, all impacted by the Cultural Revolution: student, dissident, housewife, propagandist, politician or Red Guard. Students cannot let others do the work for them because their isn't one correct answer or one correct experience. The web quest is thoughtful and thought provoking. Give it a look!

LOL,
Chris Carter

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine sent me this web. Great slide show on Mao 😀

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/ancheemin/index.shtml

[Anonymous]

I am looking for a timeline for Chinese history, particularly the 20th century. Has anyone come across one, or does anyone have one already done for the class, etc.?

Any help would be appreciated.
Courtney Lockwood
Venice High School

[Anonymous]

Try this

Rocky Parker

[Anonymous]

the outline is from a World Civ course I taught several years ago. Timeline is on the bottom of each page. Let me know if this works. Map is also part of my notes

Rock

[Anonymous]

Rocky:
Your notes are quite a resource. Thank you for generously sharing them. I would still like a time line of the 20th century, but yours is definitely a good start for me.
Courtney Lockwood

[Anonymous]

Here is a site I've used a few times...and they have a traditional timeline. I got it printed out last year and found it useful. Downside is the site requires reg and it costs. The fees aren't bad, but still costs. It is listed under Social Studies, then Ancient China.
Hope this is some help..

EdHelper site

[Anonymous]

I came across this website created by Koean American students, which would be good for Elementary, Middle School or Limited English Speakers. Since the website is made by high school students, the language is easier (albiet with some gramatical errors). The website contains information on Korean Music, Korean sports, schools in Korea, Places to visit in Korea, traditional clothing, folk games and famous pop stars. This website could be used as a sample to have them create a similar collaborative website on another Asian country. Here is the link:
http://www.asdk12.org/schools/west/pages/Countries/Korea/Korea.html

[Anonymous]

If you like watching asian movies you should visit http://www.loveasianfilms.com.
It is a site for your own enjoyment or to find review on movies to possibly see if they are appropriate or on the topic for your class.
It is easy to use and offers:
news links
latest updates: when I looked the last time I saw an update for a movie I recently watched and really liked (SPL) and found out they are going to start production on a sequel in september!
lists of upcoming movies & trailors! (from Hong Kong/China, Korea and Japan
DVD reviews
top sellers
film festivals/ awards
celebrties - I also just happened to watch Seven Swords and their was a feature on their promo tour!
I liked this site and reccommend it.

[Anonymous]

thank you.......and thanks to the E Asia Institue, UCLA and Clay Dube; I am new to teaching high school history, did not degree in it and am just now learning how to use computers, power point, web pages, etc. Considering most people my age are retiring and I am just getting started, I am very grateful for the website you referred and am excited about reading all the neat postings; I have never done any of this, nor did I know how to access help in my new assignment.
You see, the mentor the school district gave me is older than I am, not a history teacher, and not well versed in technology, etc. The new teachers coming in have all this type of knowledge and skill; thank GOODNESS for you, for Clay and for the internet!!
I just made my first power point yesterday and am so excited to be catching up to the 21 Century!
Cathy from Chapparal High in Temecula

[Anonymous]

I have been using this site for years when lesson planning, looking for addtional resources or sites the students can use on the internet to match the standards we are learning.
It is
score.rims.k12.ca.us/index.html

When you go to this site you can pick standards for history or english and it will give you lists of rated websites. They rate the websites/ resources and give you a description, comments, resource type, and if the graphics are high or low. It also has a section for lessons submitted to the site by standard or grade level and topic. Some of these are lesson plans. projects and others include web quests for the students. When I recently looked up what lessons there were for 6th grade China, I came accross lessons submitted on the following topics:
The Huang He River, the great wall, chinese caligraphy, silk road, Ch'in Dynasty Censorship debate, and Confucius.
Somtimes I found some of the lessons a bit complicted for my students...so I would just adjust what I found so it would work and I wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel too often. Sometimes student created sites pop up that are well done, but if your own class is researeching a topic you might not want to count the student created sites on this web site as a place for them to research. But perhaps you can have students use the resources found here, and the examples of sites students from around the world have created to help inspire them to make their own.

[Anonymous]

Yes, this page is amazing! It also has music samples from Beijing Opera, which I found very interesting. In the poetry reading, The poem by Li Bai-In called A Quiet Night accompanied by traditional music is absoultely beautiful, even if no translation is offered. I also enjoyed the song called Ai Wo Jong Hua (My Love China), the only song with translation under Modern Music sample. It is a patriotic song expressing the beauties and grandure of China. This site is definitely worth bookmarking if you are teaching China. Here's the wesite again:

http://www.chinapage.com/china.html

[Anonymous]

Two websites that I can use in my classroom are

http://www.apple4teachers.com and asiaforkids.com

I could use the first one and tackle the topic of Asia and geometry with tanagrams at the same time. I could use the second one to learn Mandarin and interact with students because we all don't have only Spanish speaking students.

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