WEB RESOURCES

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

http://www.asianart.org/currentandfutureexhibitions.htm

Website Review: Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA.
The website for this museum is a fabulous resource for Asian Art. The museum itself is a must see when visiting San Francisco. The museum was previously located in Golden Gate Park, next to the DeYoung museum, it moved to the former main branch of the public library in the Civic Center in 2003.
The original museum was completed in 1966, it was built to house a portion of the collection of Chicago Industrialist, Avery Brundage.
The website is easy to navigate and is a rich resource of Asian art and culture. Students can use this website as source material for art objects, inspiration for making cultural pieces and as a source of information about the arts of Asia.

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,

Please put your web site reviews in the Asia in My Classroom forum, in the web resources thread.

http://uschinaforum.usc.edu/showpost.aspx?PostID=390

As noted there, please put the name of the resource in the subject line. This makes it much easier for those scanning the posts. When adding web links, please take a moment to make them clickable. To do this, simply click on the link symbol (an icon that looks like a chain link). That brings up a dialogue box. If you want to insert different text (e.g., Asian Art Museum) you can do so there. If not, if you just want to let readers see the link itself, click ok and then in the second dialogue box type or paste in the web address (what's called the "url"). Hit ok and now you've inserted a link that is "hot", that readers only need to click on to open a new web browser window featuring the desired web page.

Thanks --

BTW -- the Asian Art Museum was featured in a recent issue of our Teaching about Asia newsletter. One of the museum's strengths are a collection of lesson plans. You can purchase print versions, which often contain discs with images, etc., but most can also be downloaded in pdf format free of charge. Here's a link to the "education" section of the website:

http://www.asianart.org/education.htm
On the left side of the page are links to specific packets for different regions.

[Anonymous]

http://www.chinaknowledge.de/index.html

Here is one of the websites that I found. It is pretty easy to use. It has different sections for music, literature, history, art, religion, and language. Clicking on one of these sections will lead you to more selections you can click on. The selections are very nicely organized. Some of the infomation isn't too in depth but would give you a good starting point. Then you could take that info and then do a google search on that to get more information.

I would use this in my classroom as a webquest. I would have questions for my students to answer and I would send them to this website to get their answers.
One thing I like about this website is that it includes the Chinese characters. I know I can't understand them and probably most of my students can't either, but I think it's good for the students to see the characters and experience that aspect of Chinese culture.

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