Website reviews

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

I found this website you might be interested in also. It has different venues but I found lots of interesting facts about women heroines of Asia; there are many biographies of them. Just click on any of them they are worth finding out more about the women in those areas of the world. Here's the link http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine.html
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[Anonymous]

CIA Factbook China

You may already know about this site - but its a great place to send kids to get general country based info. This links to the China page, but you can use the site to find info on any country.

[Anonymous]

US-China Trade Statistics

This is a link to the US-China Business Council website. This site shows easy to read tables - great for econ!

[Anonymous]

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pfor/hd_pfor.htm

I think everyone will get something out of this web site, the one thing I have used it for is time-lines. I am very visual and use timeline to see the stats.[Edit by="sneumann on Aug 2, 2:35:44 PM"]This web site has some great definitions, links, history timelines. [/Edit]

[Anonymous]

http://www.computersmiths.com/chineseinvention/

I found another web timeline that is a studnet friendly site for timelines and has other modern day things that the students can use, such as the use of oil.

[Anonymous]

Here is the website for the Olympics. One of many I'm sure...
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing

[Anonymous]

Also posted under Asia in my Classroom Forum:

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
"The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center is the preeminent presenter of Japanese and Japanese American, and Asian American performing and visual arts nationally."

The JACCC offers several exhibits and programs featuring Japanese and Japanese-American art and artists, as well as educational programs for the community.

The website itself does not have too many resources to access and use immediately, but the Center has some valuable information and programs that could enhance the classroom.
Take a look at the site to find information on expanding one's knowledge about Japanese artifacts, culture, and art.

Click here to see what is happening in the summer and fall of 2008: http://www.jaccc.org/08summerfall.htm

[Anonymous]

http://www.americantanka.com/

This is a super-cool website on the poetry form of tanka. Tanka is the modern name of a form of Japanese verse that dates back over twelve centuries. Older than haiku, tanka differs from haiku in both its form (31 syllables) and its style of expression. In Japan, tanka has long been considered the most important form of Japanese poetry.

I will definitely include this form when my classes learn about forms of poetry. There are great samples too.

[Anonymous]

This website has current news and information about China. It covers topics from culture to politics to the environment and more. What is particularly interesting about the site is that it is the authorized government portal site to China and it is published under the auspices of the State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group in Beijing. It would be a great lesson to compare information from this site to other sites to determine bias, depth of information, etc.

http://www.china.org.cn/

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

Hope you're all enjoying your summer. Anyways our deadline to present our lesson plans is just around the corner and I have been thinking of what lesson to teach to my students. I think I found what I was looking for. The website that I want to review has a compilation of ideas that we as teachers can use to introduce what we've learned during our 9 day seminar. The website doesn't include state standards but we most certainly can line the lesson with the standard we want to cover. By the way does anyone know where I can get a hold of a kimono? I hope you like the website. I will keep an eye for other ones.

Here it is: http://asia.msu.edu/Teaching_ideas.htm

Peace 😛
Maria

[Anonymous]

Hi all.

A website that is very useful when researching current event about Japan is JIN, Japan Information Network, an official Japanese online newspaper. Everything is discussed from the environment, to travel in Japan, to the government, to current events, to opinions of Japan. The site is very useful and inciteful for students interested in exploring Japan.

[Anonymous]

http://departments.kings.edu/history/20c/china.html#Sun

I am adding this web site that is about the leaders of China placed in order during the 20th C.; from Kings College that easy to read and students from 5th yo 12th could use to understand the order and what each leader was known for. Neumann

">http://departments.kings.edu/history/20c/china.html#Sun

This one should be usable[Edit by="sneumann on Aug 17, 11:50:04 AM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

Okay, I'm so jazzed with Chinese and Japanese history and culture. This is what I used in my lesson plan-an account of 'the First Emperor's' terracotta soldiers, his obsession with immortality and other 180 things found from the excavations of 1975. The video clips can be viewed at this website:

Japanese culture,cuisine and etiquette:

Great interactive website on Chinese Immigration in California

Japanese Immigration to the U.S.

Chinese and Japanese immigration to the U.S. is tied up with nonfiction Language Arts sixth grade standards

[Anonymous]

I found a great podcast for free on itunes. It is called "Landscapes of China -audio". I think it is a professor interviewing other scholars about different aspects of China today and in the past several decades. I like putting new information into what I already have learned about China to compare and contrast.

[clay dube]

Hi Folks,
Please remember to post ALL website reviews and ALL film reviews in the Asia in My Classroom forum. Please copy and paste your existing reviews to

Asia in My Classroom -- Web Resources
Asia in My Classroom -- Film Festival

Thank you.

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