The website I chose to review is http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/index.html
The site is called “East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources” and was set up by the Asian Studies department at the University of Redlands. I believe this site can provide a wealth of information to my students for any form of research being done on one or more East Asian country. In my personal opinion, the site is easily navigable and contains several features/items that I enjoyed and would certainly use in my classroom. On the left side of the page, there is a link for each individual country of East Asia. There is also a link called ‘Asian Americans” and has sub-links to “General Information, Politicla and Social Issues, Communities, Media, Culture, Arts, Immigration,” to name a few. Under the “Asia” link, there are sub-links (which are also the same for any country you can click on) such as “News Media, Politics, Economic/Social Issues, Culture/Arts, History, Philosophy and Religion, Science and Technology, and Environment”. My favorite part of the site is that “Hot Topics” section that cover issues such as Globalization, the North Korea Missile Crisis, China’s Anti-secession Law of 2005, etc. Since the site is a directory site that has links to other sites, they even have a “thumbs-up” icon to indicate content-rich and authoritative resources to possible narrow down a search.
Since this is a review of the website, I can also point out some of the drawbacks I can think of for this site - (1) The students may feel overloaded with the amount of information provided, (2) some free access to certain sites may require registration or some commercial watching, and (3) It hasn’t been updated since September 2006. While the lack of updates can pose a problem for research about the most current news about a particular issue, the information provided about the topics throughout history can still be valuable.
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