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I found a fun and interesting website. Go to chinese folktales.com It provides a listing of written and oral folktale sites and has catagories such as ancient, famous, proverbs, myths, festivals and celebrations. I also found a springboard to http://www.china culture.org. There I was able to go to china education activities, such as paper cutting, cooking ethnic dishes, and view large ( 5x7) pictures from festivals, lion dances, etc. There's lots to see at each site. Each site could be used in any classroom. Discussion of plot, purpose, moral or lesson to learn, author's purpose or point of view, place in history are some of the applications. The china culture site could be used for hands-on lessons, comparisons, painting or drawing, commonalities of chinese dance/food/costumes with American, Indian, Korean, etc. The second site also lends itself well for independent activities or GATE presentations.[Edit by="sspringer on Aug 26, 8:34:06 PM"][/Edit]

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http://www.kiddyhouse.com/SStudies/Countries/China/
This is a website that has many links regarding China for elementary, middle school and high school teachers to use with their classes. I particularly liked the information on Chinese mythology.

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http://news.yahoo.com/story//mcclatchy/20080831/sc_mcclatchy/3031567
This is a pretty frightening article regarding air pollution and how it travels the world.

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I think the cursory feel of the yahoo sports website regarding the Beijing Olympics is a good ice-breaker. It can be used at the beginning of the year in one of the early computer sessions to break the ice and let the students know that school can be fun and involve sports and television, etc.

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Okay, I just have to add this to the website reviews for the sheer fun of it.

This is a simple little film of a guy named Matt dancing his way around the world. The beauty of this version is the predominance of Asian countries, and the Asian music. You will recognize several sites we discussed in class, including street girls plying their trade.

Not to be missed is his original version, which you'll get by typing "Where the hell is Matt?(2008)" on YouTube. The music is different, and the countries are more western, although there are plenty of Asian places, and an incredible shot inside the Korean DMZ - and yes, the walls are blue!!
Apparently this person named Matt Harding decided to go around the world and ended up sending pictures of himself - dancing (at a friend's suggestion). It's terrific to see how many people joined him - adults and children.
It makes me feel terrific to watch - like maybe we could get the whole world dancing if it became the thing to do for pictures. I plan to load it on a DVD and play it during class changes for the students.

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