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[Anonymous]

Website evaluation:

In taking the East Asia and New Media in My Classroom seminar I was exposed to many amazing websites. I think my students will enjoy a project in which they too must find and evaluate and appropriate website.

This site I enjoyed the most is:
http://www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/tower_inside.html

This site provides a panoramic view from the perspective of being inside the great wall. It allows you see through 3 windows and go out a door. I believe this interactive site will be just what my 6th graders would like (they are very visual and this would be fantastic for my English Language learners). The Great Wall is of such fascination to my students, this site provides additional knowledge that a book can not provide. It also has additional tourist sites that are translated in Chinese and English. In addition the site has a Chinese language teaching tool (you can learn Chinese!).

[Anonymous]

Mr. Donn’s is a great resource for lesson planning or using it as a reference fro students. I have found the one for China very useful when I taught China last year. The website is http://china.mrdonn.org/index.html. It’s very easy to use, divided by People/Places/Festivals, Daily Life/Culture, Philosophies/Religion. Under each category you will find a lot of information, and then under those topics you’ll find even more topics and resources. I have not implemented the one for Japan but it has many lesson plans for teachers to use and power points and other resources. It is found on http://countries.mrdonn.org/japan.html. The topics vary from feudal japan, shogun, samurai, haikus, kabuki theater etc. It’s a great source for teachers and students as well.

[Anonymous]

I thought this was a great cheat sheet for the Qin Dynasty. This is for 6th grade use only. Topics include how they came to power, the political system, legalism, the achievements and the end of the dynasty. I think this can be very useful for students to use for research or for teachers to get the basic info on the Qin dynasty.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/socialstd/resources/qin.html

[Anonymous]

This is a web quest designed by a teacher that focuses on the Shang, Qin and Han dynasties. Students have to prepare a final project to show as a museum exhibit based on one of the dynasties of China. The website is very detailed and the teacher does everything step by step thoroughly. A lot of the websites provided though are no longer working. So the task is good, but it will require the teacher to look for websites to fill in for the large amount that no longer work. So you may have to have a list of alternative sites students can use.

http://sites.lps.org/wq12/

[Anonymous]

This website is a listing of all sorts of lessons for K-12, ESL for East Asia. The site is useful because they are divided by country, or by elementary, middle or high school. Under each category you can get lessons by grades or in alphabetical order. Each lesson has the file that you can directly download. What’s also useful is that the lessons are not solely for history teachers, rather its cross curricular. You can find some math and English lessons as well. The website is easy to use and very useful!

http://www.kcta.ku.edu/KCTAlessons/

[Anonymous]

This website is great for those of you looking for traditional music for your classroom. This site has a long list of music under different topics, of traditional, childrens, ceremonial, modern, etc. Very useful. The only downside to it is that you have to play them one at time. I’m not to technologically savvy so I’m not sure if you can download them. Either way it’s a great musical resource.

http://music.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/chinese-music/

[Anonymous]

I really enjoy this website and use it with my students for other civilizations. The webpage is has five different topics such as crafts and artisans, geography, time, tombs and ancestors, and writing. Under each topic students can get a story, explore something relating to topic like a timeline or tomb, and finally a challenge. Its fun to use with the students and is really student friendly.

http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html

if you go to the original british museum website there are many things to explore like,
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/online_tours/japan.aspx which is an online tour of Japan. The original website has a lot to offer for students, however I recommend going through it first to see which page you would like your students on. [Edit by="mari_montes on Jan 8, 8:49:19 PM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

This is National Geographic’s page for the Samurai of Japan. Although you have to get the magazine for the full feature article there are useful bits of info to use with your students or for your own research. There is great field notes on the side from the author and photographer. Also there are great pictures that you can view of samurai. There is also a map of the time period. There is a section called Did You Know? With interesting facts about the samurai period. At the bottom is a MAJOR plus, a list of related links and bibliography that you and your students can surely find useful!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0312/feature5/index.html

[Anonymous]

This is a very neat website, will definitely use for my English section! This would be good to make some kind of a flip book with each story. The Korea page is working now

[clay dube]

Lynn Parisi, a colleague at the University of Colorado has developed new resources that merit attention from all those looking for solid ways to bring Japan history alive for their students.

Imaging Japanese History contains five modules:
• Heian Japan through Art: Dour Great Emaki
• Medieval Japan through Art: Samurai Life
• Tokugawa Japan through Art: Views of a Society in Transformation
• Meiji-Taisho Japan through Art (forthcoming)
• From Postwar to the Present through Art: Tezuka Osamu and Astro Boy.

Each module includes an introductory essay and an interactive lesson that engages students in close readings of art as historical texts in order to better understand the period. Designed for secondary social studies and art history teachers, the modules touch on major questions and content from the National Standards for World History. This curriculum is funded through a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. Four of the five modules in the series are currently available at
http://www.colorado.edu/cas/tea/imagingjapan

I look forward to reading your evaluations of these materials.

[clay dube]

You might be surprised and your students might be interested in how many different governments issue stamps to mark the lunar new year. The stamps are interesting cultural artifacts and also money makers for the postal systems since many are purchased and never used to mail letters.

Governments issuing such stamps include those places where the holiday is universally celebrated (China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong) and others where significant numbers of people mark it.

Click on the link below to see stamps issued for 2009, the Year of the Ox. Older students might discuss the styles used, the politics of marking the holiday, and research how long the particular states have been doing it. They could even discover what such stamps garner in the marketplace (e.g., a Hong Kong ox stamp from 24 years ago, or the first US year of the ox stamp....). Younger and older students might like to try their own hand at coming up with a design. They might also be interested in how card companies and others are using the holiday to sell, sell, sell.

http://china.usc.edu/ShowArticle.aspx?articleID=1343

[Anonymous]

“All the great powers of the 20th century had feudalism and commercial revolution.” During the Song dynasty the Chinese did experience a commercial revolution, independently developing a money economy. http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_video_8-2.html
The stagnation after the Song was caused by several different factors. I couldn’t find a great source dealing with this topic, any ideas? It is interesting to note the ease in which the Chinese have embraced capitalism in recent years, as they have a history of commercialism and capital trade.

[Anonymous]

“All great powers of the 20th century had feudalism and commercial revolution.” This is a really interesting and provocative statement. Some interesting summarizations of the manor system and the shoen can be found here http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_video_8-1.html
I don’t think we really fleshed out this statement in class as, for me, there are many important consequences. I really want to understand exactly why feudalism may be a lubricant for 20th century power. Ideas?

[Anonymous]

In 1900, 98% of all Japanese boys and 93% of Japanese girls received full grammar school educations. In looking for some extended statistics, I found this link http://www.usc.es/~economet/reviews/aeid114.pdf It shows such statistics as GDP growth and total years of schooling. Apparently both the USA and Canada led Japan in total schooling during 1900, but it would be interesting to compare these statistics with primary source information on the rigors and focus of schooling during 1900. Thought this might be useful, especially for Math and Economics teachers.

[clay dube]

The Korean War is sometimes described as the forgotten war (there's a documentary with just that name), but given South Korea's importance to the world economy, North Korea's contribution to regional and global instability, and the many links between people in the US and in Korea, it is essential that we do a better job of teaching about the war. U.S. Department of Defense photos can be helpful in this regard and some are now available via Flickr. Here's the announcement below:

Korean War Historical Images

IMCOM-Korea Photo Collections, The Installation Management Command-Korea Region (IMCOM), US Army Korea

Self-description:
"Historical images from the Korean War. Public Domain - not for commercial use. Please credit Department of Defense and photographer (see attached captions.) 511 photos | 133,701 views [as of early Feb
2009 - ed.], items are from 07 Oct 2008."

Sample caption [from image Korean War - HD-SN-99-03136]:
"Long trek southward: Seemingly endless file of Korean refugees slogs through snow outside of Kangnung, blocking withdrawal of ROK I Corps.
January 8, 1951. Cpl. Walter Calmus. (Army) NARA FILE #:
111-SC-356475 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1477 Cleared for public release. This image is generally considered in the public domain - Not for commercial use. U.S. Army Korea - Installation Management Command."

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