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Please prepare your thank you letters to the Taiwan folks prior to our next session (11/23). I'd like to deliver them to the director before the end of the month.

You should address your thank yous to:

Officers, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles.

I'll distribute a list of videos that you can get from their offices at a later session. You might incorporate some of these into your lesson plans for the seminar.

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These are outstanding observations. Maria's quite right to ask that we take the philosophy discussion further. And we will. Throughout our sessions, presenters will be linking historical and cultural developments to these philosophical currents. We'll be getting a bit into Buddhism with Prof. Ye and into Shintoism and Bushido with Prof. Yamashita.

Lyn Reese has for almost two decades been working to produce curriculum units to "bring women in." Her units and other resources can be found at:

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/

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Students in San Jose State web design and art courses have built a number of online exhibitions you may find useful.

Heian Japan
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/heian/index.html

Chinese and European Ceramics
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/ceramics/

Chinese Tomb Treasures
Flash/non-FLash options
http://oldworld.sjsu.edu/asiangate/chinesetombs/index.htm

Beyond these, the site offers a WorldArt Web Kiosk with annotated images available for non-profit educational use (credit SJSU!). Here's the link to the Asia collection:

http://worldart.sjsu.edu/IT_10$2155*160902[Edit by="Clay Dube on Nov 13, 6:54:08 AM"][/Edit]

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We've suggested cd-roms from Corel and other resources. Here are a couple of websites to visit:

Image After
http://www.imageafter.com/

Image After offers free and paid images and textures. The assortment is huge, but there isn't much on Asia. Some backgrounds, etc. may be useful.

UNESCO Photobank

Currently being reconstructed -- relaunch is overdue
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=20289&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Excellent tips and links from the library at the University of San Francisco (note the sage copyright advice!):
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ref/ifrank/guides/images.html

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One of the most commonly used professional website building programs is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. I now use it to create pages for our sites. It is not intuitive but it is powerful. If you've enjoyed the web page creation effort associated with this course and want to experiment with other creation tools, Dreamweaver is available free for 30 days. Both Windows and Mac versions are available.

Visit the Dreamweaver website

This is not an easy program to master (I've been using it for some time now and am still flumoxed regularly), but it is state of the art and available for a free trial. It is a huge download, though, so be sure you've got a fast internet connection.

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Paul McDermott read the attached editorial from the NY Times and passed it along. Take a look -- we visited the places discussed.

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Robin recommended this film during our session Sunday and I quite concur. It is a bit melodramatic and plays up a few stereotypes of its own, but is quite good. I'd love to have someone in this group write a teaching-oriented review of it. If you do, please post it in the Asia in My Classroom forum so that all teachers will have access to it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006I04I/103-0018456-3399045?v=glance

The Amazon box cover features a different picture than I remember on the film's poster. That image had a fellow drinking a soft drink (Coke?) in front of a red background (the flag?).

Some other resources:
Internet Movie Database (IMDB.com)

Rotten Tomatoes

New York Times

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Ed mentioned at the follow-up session that he'll be using the Twelve Girls Band for the documentary sound track. Here's a story we published on the band's recent LA show:
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=13583

Asia Pacific Arts has information on several contemporary Chinese bands with the sort of urban sound Ed wants. Among the greatest is semi-metal head Cui Jian. Check out the APA website at http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu.

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The Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles is located on Wilshire Boulevard:

Address: 5505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 323-936-7141 | 323-936-5712 fax
Open Hours: Monday thru Friday: 9AM - 5PM

http://www.kccla.org/

The film was screened there briefly, but it had a long Los Angeles run earlier. The 2002 film is available on dvd

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008K76Y/002-3950803-7970457?v=glance

and, therefore, should be available for rent from many outlets.[Edit by="Clay Dube on Oct 11, 4:13:31 PM"][/Edit]

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Hi Folks,

To aid Maria and Michelle and other members of the group who couldn't attend on Saturday, I've attached an early version of the Chinese philosophy curriculum guide. For those with the print version, that is the preferred version.

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This is how I insert a link:

http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu

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Hi Folks,

Here's a page where I've put links to 10 websites that I think you will find interesting or you could use with students. If you find them interesting, please comment on them in the web resources section of the Asia in My Classroom forum. Don't put your comments here, share them with all the teachers participating in the forum.

http://international.ucla.edu/asia/ncta/web1.asp

Among the links are Oprah Winfrey's The Good Earth book discussion page and Asia Times articles about the Chinese-Korean dispute over who ran a large section of the Korean peninsula during the period 37 bce - 688 ce.

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Click on the link below for our initial web tour.

http://international.ucla.edu/asia/ncta/web1.asp

PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR COMMENTS ON THESE OR OTHER WEBSITES HERE. INSTEAD, PLEASE POST THEM IN THE WEB RESOURCES SECTION OF THE Asia in My Classroom Forum. I apologize for the shouting, but website evaluations and film reviews should be shared with the widest possible audience of teachers.

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Attached, in pdf format, is a copy of the seminar assignment. To read and print out the assignment, you'll need the free Acrobat reader. It is probably already installed on your computer, but if not, download a free copy at:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

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