pre-2011 web resources

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The website,http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/chu/chinos", provides information about Chinese and Asian influence in Latin America.

Students can use this website to explore the range of influence and Asian presence in Latin America and to navigate to various links that show how Chinese and Japanese and Korean immigrants have settled in Latin America and how the cultures "melt' together and create a multi-cultural environment.

*Note: It is always interesting to me how, upon discussing this topic, that my students are suprised, and nearly shocked that there are Chinese and other Asian populations in Latin America. It is striking because the US is such a melting pot of heterogeneous peoples from all over the globe. They seem to have the view that "we" are the only country that represents this mix of cultures.

[Anonymous]

I really liked that japan-101 website. I was talking to another teacher the other day about Japan and some cultural practices in Tokyo. It seems so foreign to me (literally) and the Japan-101 site answered several of the questions I had. I bookmarked it and plan to go back!

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What next for China's monetary policy?

This article discusses recent changes to the Chinese monetary policy. I teach Economics and plan on including lessons regarding the US economic ties to China and have discussions on how this impacts the US economy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6101H420100201

[Anonymous]

Using Anime and Mange in the classroom, as this is what captures the attention of our students as well as their connection to Asia.
The following websites are lessons using Anime in the classroom.
http://www.koyagi.com/teachers.html
The Teachers Companion to the Anime Companion

http://www.umich.edu/~anime/history_youthattitude.html

http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/anime_and_manga_its_not_all_make-believe

[Anonymous]

Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden at Cal State Long Beach
May 1st has a special New Member and Tea Ceremony day

http://www.csulb.edu/~jgarden

Descanso Garden in
La Canada has also a beautiful Japanese Garden.

If you purchase a membership, you are able to visit both gardens all year round.

[Anonymous]

This is a great kid-friendly website for my younger students who want to learn more about Peace Day and the Hiroshima Peace Plaza. It is especially useful as a resource when studying the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr.

It is an interactive site and includes animated segments telling Sadako’s story and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. There are photos of the Peace Monument and a link where students can post letters or questions.

Extension activities include the Children’s Peace Drawings Competition. It is held in Japan, but apparently all countries can submit entries. It shows several past winners and this can serve as inspiration for your own school’s peace drawing competition.

Kids Peace Station: http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/kids/index.html

[Anonymous]

http://www.openhistory.org/jhdp/intro/node3.html

This was a well organized website about Japanese history. The language is simple and easy to read. This is a link I may post for my world history students to reference.

[Anonymous]

http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/using_pop_culture_to_teach_about_japan

This was a good site with ideas and lessons using pop culture to teach about Japan.

[Anonymous]

I had some down time in one of my classes and I got on google earth. My students were excited about looking at some of the most interesting places on earth. One of the places I looked up was the great wall of china.

[Anonymous]

Google Earth is an amazing site. I do not use it enough in the classroom. I will certainly have the class see places like the Great Wall. Thanks for this reminder!

[Anonymous]

Website Review
http://www.japan-101.com/

Japan-101 is a cohesive website about Japan, past and present. The website covers Japanese language, culture, history, and even anime to name a few of their links. It also encorporates links that could assist individuals who were planning on travelling to or living in Japan in the near future.
The history link is particularly what I and my students would be using. That page is broken into three separate areas – menu pages, general history and culture and people. This is helpful as each part is organized by theme and in small chunks so that the viewer isn't overwhelmed by link after link after link.
Underneath the general history section is a link for a Timeline of Japanese history. This timeline breaks down Japan's history with more links included in the details. This allows individuals to easily access more information about the topic they have an interest in.
This website would be invaluable to students use as well as teacher use in the classroom. It breaks down lots of information based on subject matter and then it further simplifies that information for easy access. The website is very explanatory and helpful in the realm of past and present when concerning the following subjects:
Travel Entertainment Language
Tokyo Guide's Food Recommended
Culture Geography Reviews
Art & Music Kanji Government
History Shopping Video Games
Forums Photos Anime

This website could be used as an introduction website to a particular piece of Japanese history and/or culture. It could also be used as a review website. As the AP Exam approaches, this website could be used (as I plan on using it) to complete a project that is an overview of a country, their political evolution as well as the changes made in society and how they were influenced by outside forces.

As the AP Exam is fast approaching, I am very excited to have found this website and hope to find more like it for all the countries that my students and I have been looking at.

[Anonymous]

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8864695

China's Economic Growth

This short video clip presents “The Stan Shih Smile Curve”. This video demonstrates how China is currently earning money only in manufacturing. To continue to develop its economy, China needs to take over the design, distribution, branding, marketing, concept/R&D and sales/after service.

[Anonymous]

So I hesitated to review this website, but it is too classic to ignore. It can be viewed from a few different perspectives, some may be offended, but most will just continue to smile for days. The site is called http://www.engrish.com. The site basically shows pictures from all over the world, taken by the people who visit the website, of signs poorly translated into English.
Warning, this is not a website to present to students without reviewing it first, and then choosing only the appropriate selections. Now it's name and some of the content could be interpreted as making fun of Asian culture and it's social mores, but I don't see it that way. I see it as simply a celebration of the way countries try to go more global and make their country more welcoming to foreigners, typically Americans, with humorous results.
Certain selections could definitely be used for grammar studies. Many of them could be an appropriate, yet funny way of looking at common grammatical/spelling errors, that the students in any typical high school class make on a day to day basis. And then you can have the students correct them.
The site could also be used to open up several discussion topics.
A. The social impact of a global economy and tourism as a major source of revenue.
B. Philosophical chairs discussion of whether a site like this is offensive, why or why not. (Not simply because some of the signs are from bathrooms and may deal with vulgar or inappropriate topics, but does the layout of the site and its content seek to poke fun at other cultures or simply point out the humor in human folly.)
Warning # 2 - If presented improperly, this site could be seen as poking fun at the way some ELL/ESL or foreign language users speak. If portrayed properly and with sensitivity, maybe even leaving out the name of the website, then most of the kids will consider the submissions to be hilarious.
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The following websites will link you to publications written by Georgetown University/School of Foreign Service professors that focus on Asian studies. The site offers pretty comprehensive summaries that could lead to some good reading and inspire a unit or two.

http://asianstudies.georgetown.edu/63344.html

http://asianstudies.georgetown.edu/publications/

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http://www.asiasociety.org is a great website that is user friendly. I was able to get in an area with a chef who has a blog. She has a new cookbook called Steamy Kitchen & it has some great recipes for me to use with my chef students. But this website not only has a cooking section but politics, business, arts, history, living styles, religions, trade, conflicts, education all throughout Asia. Students could utalize this site as well. Especially if doing any type of research project or just wanting to find out about current things happening in Asia.

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