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[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

While looking for more information about The Tale of Genji, I ran into this website. Let me know what you guys think about it.

[Anonymous]

http://www.ibiblio.org/vietnam/

This website offers a wide variety of photographs of Vietnam. I could see using it to help students picture the country when we deal with war literature in my Modern Lit class. The photos are divided into categories -- people, scenery, history, etc. (Look at the "hall where the king held court" under history. Beautiful...if you like gold!) Also, there is a large plaque reading "Teacher of all generations;" perhaps we teachers need some plaques around town. The links don't seem to work, and the poetry is not in English.

[Anonymous]

http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=23753

After seeing Clayton's slide show of China last week, you'll enjoy reading this report from one of the teachers who went on that trip. Not only is it a concise, well-written description of his impressions, but their's a surprise ending.

[Anonymous]

http://www.chinainstitute.org/educators/curriculum.html

For history teachers, there's a great site called China Institute. It seems to be similar to the UCLA Asia Institute. There is a curriculum unit on comparing Ancient Rome and Han China -- two classical civilizations.
There is also a unit in which students write a Tang Newspaper... learning about the culture before they begin writing.
Courtney

[Anonymous]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a section of their website dedicated to "China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D." (link below). The site is developed for students, so there is plenty of background information. The museum has photographs of paintings and sculpture from its collection and information that links the pieces to their historical context. I was able to print a photograph and information about a Chimera to accompany a poem I teach called "Camouflaging the Chimera," by komunyakaa. Within each description, there are questions posed, so students can make connections and evaluate what they have read/seen.

In a section acalled "Online Resources and Downloads," there is a wealth of information at your fingertips. There is a timeline of Chinese art/history, historical maps, a link to a glossary, information on the Silk Road, and links to "AskAsia." With a fast computer and a focused assignment, students could have enjoy this resource.

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/china_dawn/resources.html

[Anonymous]

Here's another great resource...AskAsia. Link below. This one has an excellent section for teachers with about 30 lesson plans, drawings you can clip to add to handouts, maps (all kinds), photographs, timelines. Most of the lessons are history-related, but they have an index that catagorizes materials by region in Asia, by topic, by student age, by class (social studies, language arts, etc.). The site also has materials on Asian-Americans.

And, there's a magazine dedicated to teaching about Asia -- Education about Asia ($25 per year for non-member). There are several article available to read on the site, even one from the prof of anthropology who writes about McDonalds in China (and who spoke at a UCLA Asia Institute in the past.)

http://www.askasia.org/teachers/

[clay dube]

Here is a copy of the 5/8/05 LA Times article I mentioned in the Asia in My Classroom forum. I can' t circulate copywritten materials there, but among members of our seminar it's okay.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the site. I am currently teaching about the Vietnam War. The poems site will work well for creating found poems with the students. The pictures are great as well.

Frank

[Anonymous]

aarmas- What website are you refering to?? I'd like to check it out

[Anonymous]

Holy cow! I found the website "women in world history" fascinating. I especially liked the lesson on Women and Confucianism. Some of the statements that a class could discuss included: " A woman's duty is not to control or take charge", "The woman with no talent is the one who has merit", and "Woman's greatest duty is to produce a son." Boy, my students would have a field day with this lesson and discussing these comments. It would really open up their eyes to how women were viewed in the so-called "old school" days as they would put it.

This website has some awesome lessons as well as biographies and historical reviews. I plan on having my students peruse this site in depth

[Anonymous]

When you review a website, it would be helpful if you gave the complete address (copy and paste it into your review.) Thank you.
Courtney

[Anonymous]

I, too, found the Women in World History website interesting.
I have been working on my website on Heian literature, and now find it even more interesting that the Japanese during the Heian period treated women with such respect. Families preferred daughters because they could marry the Emperor or a wealthy landowner. The Japanese followed Confucianism, so this time when women wrote and were shown respect was somewhat of an aberration. Of course, the Heian women weren't allowed out much and no males could see their faces...

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson3.html

[Anonymous]

Yes, I know, this isn't exactly a resource, but it's good. We went to New Moon for lunch yesterday and enjoyed good Vietnamese food. The nice thing about Vietnamese food is that it is very healthy, they use plenty of fresh ingredients and the sauces are light. I had a beef salad and felt satisfied and healthy afterwards. They have stir-fried foods (you can add more sauce from a bowl that accompanies the food), and noodle bowls ("Americanized" on the menu to "vermicelli").

New Moon is on the northeast corner of Sawtelle and National in West Los Angeles. Cost for lunch: meals are $6.50 to $7.95 each (plus beverage). Lunch includes soup and a spring roll.

Courtney

[Anonymous]

I noticed that there are a lot of resources listing photos. here is a site maintained by a photographer named QT Luong. the photos are quite nice. It includes fine art prints for countries like China, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma. They may not be Dubeshots, but they'll have to do.

http://www.terragalleria.com/

there are some nice shots at this site, though you must pay to use them.

http://www.stockphotoasia.com/

It is impressive how many wonderful asian photo pages pop up just after to doing a simple google search. i highly recommend checking out the muslim cap photo on the outreachworld.org site.

[Anonymous]

It seems silly, but after checking out so many of these great websites posted and spending some serious time seeing what is out there, I am kind of blown away with the quality of the UCLA Asia institute's page. There are interesting articles and more diversions than anyone could want-and the asia pacific arts magazine is quite good. I don't know why I am, but I am surprised that they cover a lot of cool stuff. I would like to see more music-maybe i missed something but every search led me to believe that contemporary asian music scenes are a little neglected. Anyway-the public forum has plenty of threads that students might like to check out (if only for a minute) because it is all written by teachers. I have recommended the asia pacific art site to friends and will continue to check out the calendar and teachers forums long after i am required to. Perhaps there is a way for a teacher to use the internet forum threads with a class?

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