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clay dubeA copy of the seminar assignment is attached to the next post. In addition to attendance at and active participation in every session, you are expected to complete three tasks.
1. Exchanging ideas via the discussion forum. Substantative posts are the norm. In evaluating websites, provide details on who created the resource, what are its particular strengths and weaknesses, and how might it be used by teachers. In reviewing films, summarize the story and focus on how teachers could use it to teach about Asia. What issues does it explore? Is it an accurate representation of a particular time and place? In discussing seminar readings or presentations, feel free to raise questions, offer interpretations, and brainstorm on classroom applications for the materials or concepts. For example, how can these primary sources be used to develop student skills?
2. Create a website for use either with your students or your fellow teachers. You may combine this assignment with the curriculum development task. Your website should have a minimum of three different pages. Be sure to check your spelling and grammar and to properly credit your sources of information and images. You may post your website to our web server (your URL will be http://international.ucla.edu/asia/lessons/yourfirstinitialyourlastname -- be sure to name your homepage "index.html") or elsewhere (your school site, your ISP, or on a free website host such as GeoCities). Please include your email address on the website so that interested colleagues may contact you.
3. Develop a set of lesson plans covering two - three days. These lessons should be appropriate for the students you have in class everyday. These plans should be fully developed with discussion questions, handouts, vocabulary lists, and so forth. Alternatively, you may write an essay discussing how you will bring ideas and resources from the seminar into your classes and to your colleagues.
clay dubeHere are some sites that provide web page templates that you can adapt. None of these are especially complicated and you could readily match them using Mozilla Composer.
San Diego State University (< 10, simple and effective)
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/LessonTemplate.html
Netscape (> 10 templates, very basic)
http://wp.netscape.com/browsers/templates/
Web Diner (< 10 templates)
http://www.webdiner.com/templates/webtemp.htm
clay dubeOn a page on the Univ. of Kansas math dept. website, you can access commonly needed icons such as
http://www.math.ku.edu/icons/back.gif
http://www.math.ku.edu/icons/[Edit by="Clay Dube on Oct 8, 10:17:58 PM"][/Edit]
clay dubeChina's making some big leadership moves. Jiang Zemin has retired from his all-powerful post atop the CCP's central military commission. At the 2002 CCP conference, several female members of the CCP leadership are highlighted:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/48517.htm
Outside of the CCP, a Ford Foundation project is trying to develop women leaders:
clay dubeWBUR, the famed Boston public radio station, had an interview with a Cantonese woman named Pun Ngai about her work to secure rights for laborers in Southern China. Click on this link to read a summary. If you are interested you can hear the program online.
http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/09/20040908_a_main.asp
clay dubeWe've already mentioned a few resources, but here's a good list of English language works on women in Chinese history. Ordinarily this gets put into the "Asia in My Classroom" forum but I'm eager to get the women group working together in advance of the reunion weekend.
clay dubeCheck out this 2003 article from the People's Daily. It notes that single person households and double income no kids households are on the rise in China. The nuclear family accounted for 48% of urban families in 1997, but was down to 37% in 2003.
http://english.people.com.cn/200307/16/eng20030716_120372.shtml
clay dubeHi Family Group and others,
I'm sure everyone is working diligently and quietly on the project. Ordinarily, I drop new web resource discoveries into the "Asia in My Classroom" forum, but in my crazy campaign to get you talking, I thought I'd put this one here:
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbfamilism-u.html
The author, David Jordan, is a recently retired UCSD anthropologist. It is a good outline of traditional family structure.
clay dubePaul has asked about the lecture on daoism. I am afraid I didn't get to hear that one, so I can't help much.
What I can do is direct you to an electronic copy of the Daodejing: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/documents/DaoDeJing.htm.
It may be helpful to look what the document says about striving, about construction, about comparing oneself against others. Isn't keeping up with the Wangs a potentially destructive chase?
Of course, the US and now the world economy depends heavily on consumer spending. Anyone care to speculate on our group's contribution to China's GDP?
Article from China's Xinhua news agency (9/18/04): http://en.ce.cn/Business/Macro-economic/200409/11/t20040911_1740323.shtml
statistics from 2000: http://english.people.com.cn/english/200010/19/eng20001019_53001.html
clay dubeLet's try to keep all environment-related posts in this area.
Interesting article in a recent Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0902/p14s01-sten.html
North Americans use, of course, a disproportionate share of the world's resources. But many Asians are now wealthy enough to match that consumption. In the article, Mark Clayton draws upon a new book The New Consumers by Norman Myers to suggest that 1 billion from 20 developing nations are ready to use and use.
This came up in our orientation back in April and we discussed it at various times during the trip. Steel, oil, grains... they are all in greater demand thanks to China's booming production and consumption. What will the consequences of greater resource use be for China and for the world?
clay dubeHi Everyone,
Please remember to put film reviews in the film festival section of the "Asia in My Classroom" forum. You can get to that forum by either clicking the "forums" link above or by clicking on the "Teaching about Asia Forums." I'd like all teachers to have access to your ideas on these movies.
You can repost the info to the "Asia in My Classroom" forum and then you can ask me (via email: [email protected]) to delete the original post.
clay dubeChris has come up with some real conversation-starters for his lesson. I love the background and the nice mix of text and images. I think most of his students are going to ask about the zodiac animals, though, ahead of probing the Dao.
Congratulations!
clay dubeOkay -- maybe it's too soon for deep reflections. But certainly you've thought a lot about the stuff you bought and the places you went. Which of your treasures from China means the most to you? Why?
clay dubeCongratulations! This is a terrific effort, taking students into the Pillow Book and into a bit of haiku. She's also located some Genji images and wants her students to come up with illustrations for the selections from the novel.
This site already asks students to do several things and Catherine can readily extend it farther with recommended references, posting exemplary student work, and so on.
Note that Catherine's put her site up using space provided by Earthlink, her internet service provider. Others may find this a convenient option. You may wish to check with your own school webmaster as well to see if space is available there.
clay dubeCongratulations on a useful and great looking site, Geny! You'll see that she's combined standard html webpages with a powerpoint presentation. I'm not sure how or if the presentation works on computers which don't have Powerpoint installed, but on my machine it allows for nice special effects. It may be a bit slow for dial-up users, but Geny's come up with good questions for her book.
Here's a clickable link to her great page: http://international.ucla.edu/asia/lessons/gkim
