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This is a website directory to websites for primary sources, literature, political cartoons, photographs, and art. Excellent for both the student and teachers of history, literature, art history, art, etc.

You may look up websites by subject: ie. ancient history, modern history, medieval history, etc. or you may look up the websites according to geographic area: Europe, U.S., Australia, Canada, Asia, Middle East, South America, Africa.

The website is: http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs_media/history.html#histmodforeast">Primary Sources
It is http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs_media/history.html#histmodforeast

Most of the links to other websites focus on U.S. History, and some of the sites are redundant, but still an
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A great website for finding political cartoons is http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html">Boondocks.net.com[Edit by="hpenrod on Jan 28, 2:48:32 PM"][/Edit]

The web address: http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html

Most of the cartoons are from the point of view of the United States.

Students really like to read cartoons--there are some interesting cartoons on this website with an explanation, and then there are a few which are difficult to understand and do not provide any explanation. You really have to sort through.[Edit by="hpenrod on Jan 28, 2:51:17 PM"][/Edit]

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If you want to have a Vietnamese cultural outfit (men and women), you can order on line. This site shows you how to measure your size and order it online. There are special measurements for this outfit. The price seems to be very expensive to someone who don't know about it, but in actuality, the price is quite reasonable, especially custom made in the US. Or if you just want a site to show your students how a Vietnamese dress looks like. http://www.skyriveronline.com/about_ao_dai.htm

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http://www.sadako.com/howtofold.html

If you want to know how to fold a paper crane or teach your students how to fold a paper crane or the significances of paper cranes, then this is the best resource.

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http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/fe_frame.htm
This is a site made possible by Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership CGP and the Freeman Foundation called TeachAsia. There is a link for Educators. It has information on grant proposals, trip to Japan application, and even resources as well as classes offered by these two foundations. It's a great resource especially after the East Asia class. IT's a site to help us continue that passion to pass on our knowledge of East Asia to our children. It not only offers classes, but also monetry incentives to teach East Asia and travel to East Asia; what better site than this?

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East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated directory of Internet resources

http://www.newton.uor.edu/department&programs/AsianstudiesDept/index.html

This is a good source for teachers looking for background information for lessons or student research.
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html

The World Factbook

This is a good resource for students doing a country report. The CIA provides an introduction to the country's history and updated information about people, government, economy, transportation, military and transnational issues.

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http://www.Japantoday.com/

Japan Today is an online newpaper that provides Japanese news in English. This may be a good resource for teachers exploring world news.

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/

Mysterious Mummies of China

A good site for sixth grade teachers teaching ancient civilizations. Students often associate mummies with Egypt. This site explores mummies found in China.
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Teaching About Women in China and Japan Websites

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/asianlinks.html

This site offers a wealth of lesson plans and ideas for teachers looking to focus on women roles in China and Japan.

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KOREA: Celebrities Feel Negative Effects of Internet
Korea's internet culture allows for rapid spread of stars' private information; fallout can injure careers

The Korea Times
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

By Han Eun-jung

While this article focuses on the problems with the spread of information over the Internet in Korea, the general problems it addresses affect many other clelebrities worldwide. While celebrities are often the victims of Internet rumors, scandals, and threats, many bounce back from them. I was surprised to learn, however, of the many Korean enteretainers who had essentially lost their careers to the negative media attention that resulted from the Internet leak of pornographic material.

This article, however, does not provide enough information as to how this problem in Korea differs from other areas of the globe where Internet use is also high. Because of this, I did not find this article an effective means of connecting Korean culture to the United States. While I could use this article in class, it might be hard considering the emphasis on Internet pornography.

Overall, I did not find this a well-written or highly informative article.

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http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html

With Chinese New Year’s just around the corner, this site may offer you some interesting information you can share with your students. The site covers the 15 day celebration of Chinese New Year, traditional New Year foods, Chinese New Year decorations and taboos and superstitions of Chinese New Year.

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I found a website called the heavenly gate of peace. It is based on the documentary by the same name that covers the riots at Tiananmen square, and later the Beijing massacre. This site offers information about this event in history, primary sources, photos, timelines, and a Tiananmen square tour (The students will love this one). It also offers other resources and weblinks. This is an excellent website to study Tiananmen square riots.

It is called the http://www.tsquare.tv/">Heavenly gate of peace.

It is located at: http://www.tsquare.tv/

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There is another Asia for Educators website in addition to the UCLA website. It is also called Asia for educators Columbia University

It contains resources for: China, Japan, literature, art, politics, history, culture. It is a very impressive website. Useful for both educators and students. Unfortunately, at this time, there are sections of this website that are under construction--so subjects like lesson plans are unattainable at this time. Still an excellent website.

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Facing History is a wonderful organization that teaches U.S. history and tackles issues of stereotypes, racism, etc. There are units this organization offers on teaching Chinese and Japanese Immigration, the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII, and many other topics relating to Asian Americans.

The website offers lesson plans, calendar dates of events, seminars, classes, and speakers, and much, much more.

Facing History is at:
http://www.facinghistory.org

I have attended several seminars with Facing History and they are all excellent! They are interesting, informative, and offer ideas and lesson plans for teaching in your classroom. The staff also are willing to teach lessons to your classes!

Check it out!

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