ORIAS
Teacher's Institute Archive
See also: On-line
News for campus events and speakers' bureaus.
Off-campus
Resources for World History
ORIAS
and IAS TEACHER'S INSTITUTES: (on-line library of bibliographies, presentation
summaries, resources and links from past events)
- Athens in the Time of Pericles - May 2-3, 2008
- Voltaire and the French Enlightenment - October 5-6, 2007
- The Enduring Legacy of Genghis Khan - February 22-23, 2008
- 34th Annual Teacher Outreach Conference at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Flyer)
- Institute of European Studies One-day Symposium
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
- Saturday, March 29th, 2008 (Flyer)
- Hebrew Bible stories: Book of Ruth and sacrifice of Isaac
January 27, 2008, 10:30AM - 1:00PM (Flyer)
- Panchatantra: Ancient Hindu animal tales
February 10, 2008, 10:30AM - 1:00PM (Flyer)
December 4, 2007
July 26 - 27, 2007
July 9 -13, 2007
July 25-27, 2007
Sponsored by American Redcross, Pearson Foundation, and ORIAS
June 26-27, 2007
Sponsored by Bay Area Teacher Development Collaborative and ORIAS
July 1-14, 2007
Summer Institute sponsored by sponsored San Mateo County Office of Education, Institute of East Asian Studies at U.C. Berkeley, and the Committee of 100.
Sunday brunch sessions 10:00AM - 1:30PM
Jan. 21, 2007 - Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
February 4, 2007 - Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
(Comic Relief's Workshop Feb 24)
March 11, 2007 - Kampung Boy by Lat; American Born Chinese by Gene Yang
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Teacher Outreach Conference.
February 23-24, 2007
Humanities West program at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
A limited number of free tickets for educators are available for this program through the Institute of European Studies.
Program details at: http://www.humanitieswest.org
Saturday, January 20th, 2007
A roundtable discussion for Chinese language instructors addressing shared concerns and resources for the Chinese language "pipeline" between pre-collegiate and university course work.
Teacher's
Workshop
at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Saturday,
November 18 at the World Affairs Council of Northern California, San
Francisco
A
special workshop for teachers will be offered as part of the African
Students Association annual meeting.
Encountering
Nature In World History: ORIAS Summer Institute,
July 24–28, 2006
Remembering
Alta California, Remaking the Past teacher's institute
June
26–28, 2006 at U. C. Berkeley
Center
for Latin American Studies (CLAS)
The
Glorious Tang and Song Dynasties
Sunday,
May 7, at the Asian Art Museum
(AAM
Workshop co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies and ORIAS)
Russian
Classics in the Classroom: Teaching About Russia Through Literature
Saturday,
April 29, 2006
Institute
of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (IEEES)
ORIAS/BAGEP
Working Group 2005–06 at U. C. Berkeley : World
Music in the Classroom
November
13, 2005- Thinking
Musically:Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture with Bonnie
Wade
December
10, 2005- Korean music
with Hilary Finchun-Sung
January
7, 2006- Hip
hop in Tanzania with Shani Omari
January
21, 2006 - Indian
music with Matthew Rahaim
February
4, 2006 - Arab music with
Tim Abdellah Fuson
February
12, 2006 - Music
in modern China with Andrew Jones
Bay
Area Resource Network for International Education IEW Reception,
November 17, 2005
Chinese
Folk Art, Festivals, and Symbolism in Everyday Life,
October 2, 2005
ORIAS
workshop introducing curriculum materials developed at the Phoebe A.
Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
Personal
Narratives: Studying Cultural Interaction,
Exchange And Migration Through First Person Accounts - ORIAS Summer
Institute, July 25–29,
2005
Mithila
Painting: Folk Art of India Workshop, March 20, 2005
Lessons
and images on-line.
ORIAS
Working Group 2004–05
Constructing Identities: Comparative Short Fiction From the Arab World,
East Asia and Western Europe
Ovid's Metamorphoses Edan Dekel, Classics Department, UCB, December 4, 2004
The Return of Martin Guerre Julianne Gilland, Robbins Collection, School of Law, UCB, January 15, 2005
Arabic Short Stories, Margaret Larkin, Department of Near Eastern Studies, UCB, February 5, 2005
Chinese Short Stories Robert Ashmore, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB, March 12, 2005
Young Adult Fiction set in the Middle East and East Asia , Teacher led workshop, April 9, 2005
Innovative
Approaches to Teaching About Islam in the Pre-Collegiate Classroom
A Special Panel for K-12 Teachers and Other Scholars at the Middle
East Studies Annual Meeting. November 21, 2004.
Rule
of Law: The Story of Human Rights in World History
ORIAS Summer Teacher's Institute, July 26 - 30, 2004
Operation
Pencil Chris Loverro's 2004 humanitarian project for schools in
Mosul, Iraq.
The
Making of Modern Cuba: Center for Latin American Studies' Summer
Institute for teachers, August 2-4, 2004. (Center
for Latin American Studies)
Finding
the Korean Voice in K-12 Teaching: Introducing Korean Culture for
Educators, June 23, 2004. (Center
for Korean Studies)
Teaching
for Understanding: Anti-Bias in the Post-9/11 Classroom, June 14-15,
2004. (Educators For Social
Responsibility)
Japan's
Civil Society and Globalization: A panel of experts met with K-12
teachers at the World Affairs Council, May 11, 2004.
World
Poetry Working Group (2004). Meetings on: the art of translation
and world poetry on the thems of love, exile, death and nature.
World
History Book Club (2004). The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye
View of World History by J. R. McNeill and William McNeill
Fitting
Cinco de Mayo Into Your Curriculum, Saturday,
May 1, 2004 (Center for
Latin American Studies)
Historical
Juxtapositions: America and Russia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
May 1, 2004 (Institute
of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
Recent
Changes in Japanese Security Policy, November 17,
2003. (Japan Society of Northern California panel of experts)
Religion
inWorld History ORIAS Summer Institute July 28 - August
1, 2003
Ten
Years After NAFTA: How Has Globalization Affected Mexico?
(Three-day teacher's institute organized by the Center for Latin American
Studies, July 21-23, 2003)
Teaching
About Africa, Africa America & the African Diaspora (Two-day
institute organized the Center for African Studies with ORIAS, the Department
of African American Studies, and the Center for Race and Gender, June
16-17, 2003)
Teaching
About Korea (Teacher-led
institute organized by the Center for Korean Studies, 2003)
Comparative
Mythology Working Group (2002-2003)
Current
Conflicts Working Group: Case Studies in the Muslim World (2002-2003)
Iraq, Israel/Palestine,
Kashmir
The
Role of Food in World History (2002) ORIAS Summer Institute
Scripts,
Spices and Stories (ORIAS Spring Series 2002)
-
History of Writing;
Hanuman in South and Southeast Asia;
Trade in the Indian Ocean
Teaching
About the Middle East (2001)
International
Children's Literature (2001) Orias Summer Institute
Teaching
Comparative Religion Through Art and Architecture (2000-2001) ORIAS/BAGEP
Spring Series
Ancient
Roots - Modern States (2000) ORIAS Summer Institute
History
Through Heroic Epic for 7th Grade: Africa, Islam, Japan, Western
Europe, Mesoamerica (1999-2000)
Medieval
Travelers in World History (1999)
Islam
in a Comparative Context
Exploring
the River Civilizations of China, Middle East and South Asia
HELPFUL
RESOURCES AT U.C. BERKELEY:
- Conversations With History: Collection of interviews with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Organized into Globetrotter Research Galleries by a variety of topics and Connecting Students to the World, curricula designed for high school students.
- Chancellor's Forum on Nuclear Danger and Global Survival: Series of forums, most recently held in the fall of 2001
- Foreign Policy after 911: Undergraduate course, open to the public as a lecture series, held in the spring of 2002; includes video links for the lectures
- Women's Rights: Commentary by men and women on the unfinished struggle for women's rights, from the Conversations with History archive
- Amnesty International's Human Rights Syllabi for the College Classroom: Syllabi compiled from colleges and universities throughout the US, and some foreign institutions, on human rights issues
Index
of K-12 Digital Learning Materials on campus under Interactive University
-
Archaeological Research Facility Project
California Heritage Project
Connecting Students to the World
ORIAS
Integrating Science, Teaching, and Technology
College of Natural Resources: CityBugs Project
Environmental Science at Galileo Academy of Science & Technology
On-line
Archive of California Part of the Calfornia Digital Library, the
OAC is "a statewide digital resource that integrates into a single,
searchable database, finding aids to and digital facsimiles of the contents
of primary resource collections throughout California." This is an enormous
on-line collection including texts, photographs and digital art reproductions.
One particularly nice resource is the Museums
in the Online Archive of California which includes annotated ethnographic
field photographs from the Hearst Museum, Chinese scrolls from
the Berkeley Art Museum collection and African art from the Fowler Museum
at UCLA .
Phoebe
A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology has good on-line materials and an
excellent outreach program for elementary and middle school students.Reservations
for class visits should be made a minimum of two weeks in advance.
Geo-Images
project at UCBerkeley presents a wonderful series of slides gathered
from the personal collections of Berkeley Geography faculty.
S*P*I*R*O
Architectural Images - architectural images database - search by
name, title, location or subject.
UC
Berkeley Museum & Archive Online Resources
Berkeley
History-Social Science Project
Archaeological
Research Facility (ARF) has an active outreach program with the
schools. Check out their current work at the Presidio
in San Francisco.
http://orias.berkeley.edu/IERN/IERNlibrary.htm
- presents the human past as a single story rather than unconnected stories of many civilizations.
- enables teachers to cover subject matter specified by district, state, and national standards within a conceptually logical and coherent framework.
- includes a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, activities, assessments, and resources.
- shows teachers how to address thousands of years of human history in a single academic year without excluding major peoples, regions, or time periods.
Angel
Island Immigration Barracks Museum (reopens January 2008).
http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html
Asian
Art Museum: The museum has some well-annotated images from its
rich collection on-line. Their education department also offers excellent
teacher workshops and materials including videos, resource packets,
slide sets and hands-on kits. (A number of their resource packets
are available from the ORIAS lending library.) For more information
on their programs and materials contact Alina Collier at 415-379-8710
or e-mail acollier@asianart.org.
Bay
Area Global Education Program (BAGEP) International Studies
Subject Matter Project housed at the World Affairs Council of Northern
California in San Francisco.
Bridging
World History (Annenberg/CPB project) Bridging World History is
organized into 26 thematic units along a chronological thread. Materials
include videos, an audio glossary and a thematically-organized interactive.Free
and on-line.
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/worldhistory/
California
State Standards for History/Social Science
California
International Studies Project
Committee
for Teaching About the U. N.
http://www.ctaun.org/index.html
EARMARC (East Asian Regional
Materials and Resources Center), housed at the History Department at
San Jose State University and supported by the Institute of East Asian
Studies at U.C. Berkeley, offers an extensive free lending library for
educators of video materials on East Asia. For a catalogue and further
information, contact E. Bruce Reynolds. Email: ereynoldATemail.sjsu.edu
(tel: 408-924-5518)
Edsitement:
National Endowment for the Humanities "Best of the Humanities on the
Web" site for teachers.
Globalization.org
(CSIS)
http://www.globalization101.org/
H-Net:
This site provides information and resources for all those interested
in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and serves as a central information
storehouse for H-Net's extensive network of e-mail lists.
InternationalEd.org
InternationalEd.org is a website for Asia Society's initiative to improve
K-12 teaching and learning about the geography, history, economics,
culture and languages of other world regions. For their quite comprehensive
Classroom
Resources list see:
www.internationaled.org/classroomresources
The
MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content
for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content
experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites
in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, and classroom
activities. Sites include materials to help with daily classroom planning,
brief and extended lesson plans, reviewed and expert-approved links
to related high-quality sites, and powerful search engines.http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo/
Outreach
World, a comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international
and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom
hosted by the 120 federally-funded National Resource Centers (NRCs)
based at 146 universities, focusing on Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe,
Latin America, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands and International
Studies, and 42 Language Resource Centers (LRCs) and Centers for International
Business and Education Research (CIBERs) based at 44 universities and
dedicated to promoting foreign language study and international business.
SPICE:
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education:
Housed in the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University,
SPICE has produced over 100 supplementary curriculum units on Africa,
Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the global environment,
and international political economy. They also have a few free units
on-line at http://spice.stanford.edu/lp/index.html.
Traditional
Arts Program at California Academy of Sciences has a referral program
to help find artists, performers, cooks, and craftspeople in traditional
arts. Note: The Traditional Arts Program has been temporarily suspended
while the CAS building is being rebuilt. They expect to re-open in late
2008.
World
History Connected - on-line journal of the World History Association)
"World History Connected is designed for everyone who wants to
deepen the engagement and understanding of world history: students,
college instructors, high school teachers, leaders of teacher education
programs, social studies coordinators, research historians, and librarians.
For all these readers, WHC presents innovative classroom-ready scholarship,
keeps readers up to date on the latest research and debates, presents
the best in learning and teaching methods and practices, offers readers
rich teaching resources, and reports on exemplary teaching. WHC is free
worldwide. It is published by the University of Illinois Press, and
its institutional home is Washington State University."
World
History For Us All: A model eletronic curriculum for world history
in middle and high schools."World History for Us All" is a
web-based model curriculum for world history in middle and high schools
and is a cooperative project of the National Center for History in the
Schools and San Diego State University. It is supported by a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities. World History for Us All
offers a curriculum that: http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu
http://worldsavvy.org
COUNTRY
REPORTS:
BBC
news service country profiles.
Country
Reports general student friendly profiles of world countries
CountryWatch.com
is "an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and
individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries
of the world and for the public and private sector organizations with
global operations and interests." Easy to read format and separate pages
for students.
Portals
to the World - Facts and links to culture, economy, geography, government,
history, languages, politics, religions, and other aspects of more than
150 nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Selected by area specialists
and other staff at the Library of Congress. (Library of Congress)
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1878
- Teaching About Africa,
Africa America & the African Diaspora (Two-day institute
organized the Center for African Studies with ORIAS,
the Department of African American Studies, and the Center for Race and Gender, June 16-17, 2003) - The
Center for African Studies at U. C. Berkeley
- CAS site includes an on-line database of syllabi
relevant to African Studies
http://ias.berkeley.edu/iasasp/africa/syllabi-selector.asp
- CAS site includes an on-line database of syllabi
relevant to African Studies
- Africa Floods 2007: This year nearly 2 million square miles were inundated and an estimated 1.5 million people have been seriously impacted by flooding across Africa. Swollen rivers spilled over their banks and washed away houses, bridges and roads, crops, livestock, entire communities. In the aftermath large populations face famine and the outbreak of water-borne diseases like malaria and cholera. As global warming continues to effect climate change worldwide, climate change experts are warning that such events may become a more regular feature in Africa. The Africa Floods 2007 site is the work of concerned faculty and students at the University of California, Berkeley. (The University is not a sponsor or participant in the site.) Kwame Braun compiled the data and wrote the text.
http://africafloods2007.googlepages.com/home - ORIAS Bibliography of K-12 literature for Africa
- Africa
Access hosts an international network
of scholars to review children's materials on Africa on a regular
basis. Their database for Annotations
and Critiques of Children's Materials on Africa can be found
at http://filemaker3.mcps.k12.md.us/aad/
- Africa South of the Sahara A collection of internet resources kept well up-dated by Karen Fung at Stanford University.
- African
Studies Centers
- African Studies Center at Boston University under Barbara Brown has an excellent set of lessons and handouts for teaching about Africa on-line at http://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/materials/lessonplans/index.html
- African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania "K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet" maintained by Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania
- African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Attention French teachers:
Passeport à l'Afrique Francophone is a two-and-a-half hour
long program of 26 clips suitable for French language classrooms
from the beginning to advanced levels and featuring African
speakers in French from all walks of life. Available in DVD
or videocassette format, Passeport was produced in the Republic
of Benin by the UW-Madison's African Studies Program's faculty
and staff together with 14 American middle school, high school,
and college-level French language instructors. Links to complementary
curriculum units and sample clips can be found at http://www.africa.wisc.edu/outreach/passeport/index.htm
Contact: ASP Outreach Coordinator, Eileen McNamara at outreach@africa.wisc.edu;
tel 608.262.4461; fax 608.265.5851.
- Africa Information Center
- The Story of Africa: The History of Africa from the Dawn of Time. This wonderful site posted by the BBC World Service has excellent text, visual and audio pieces. "The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective."
- Dealing with African Crises in the K-14 Classroom, John Metzler's resource pages uses the AIDS example for discussing how to avoid the "constant crisis" perspective when teaching about Africa.
- Amnesty International's Classroom
Guide to the film Hotel Rwanda
- GlobaLink-Africa Curriculum Teacher Guidelines
- "Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan," - is a well-designed site for introducing the history of West African kingdoms. Here is their blurb: an electronic exploration of the history of the African states of Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland. "Kingdoms" is a component of "Sacred and Secular in the African Americas ," an electronic project devoted to the African American humanities, and produced at Xavier University of Louisiana with the generous support of the Andrew Mellon Foundation. "Kingdoms of the Medieval Sudan" provides a narrative historical overview of Mali, Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland before the modern era, a hyperlinked glossary with pronunciation helps, and self-tests on the history of these regions.The text is also accompanied by the work of photographer Lucy Johnson.
- Mali Interactive
- Museum of African Art in New York City keeps a wonderful site with background and images from their exhibits such as ritual art of Mali and the Liberated Voices exhibit of modern South African art (includes maps, classroom activities, background, timeline).
- Smithsonian Museum's very slick interactive site African Voices is especially wonderful for introducing afro-pop music and making mud cloths. See also their wider African art collection.
- SchoolNetAfrica: The African Education Knowledge Warehouse (AEKW) is a pan-African education portal which services African SchoolNet practitioners, policymakers and school-based communities on ICTs in education across Africa. It provides a listing of schools in Africa with a presence on the Internet: Schools Online in Africa
- Oxfam's Cool Planet pages on Africa have images, sound and a well-organized exploration of Mali and Ghana that would be particularly useful for 7th grade. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/resources/africa.htm
- The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, U. C. Berkeley
- CSEEES 9-11 PAGE. The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasion Studies has posted a web page listing U. C. Berkeley resources and experts on Afghanistan and Central Asia relevant to the events of September 11, 2001.
- The Archive of Turkish Oral Literature at Texas Tech University has many resources on Central Asia including images, sounds, and articles.
- AskAsia: Resources for
teachers and students offered by the Asia Society.
http://www.askasia.org/ - Asia for Educators -
Extensive resources for teaching China and Japan from East Asian
Curriculum Project (EACP)-- Columbia University
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ - Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (Teacher materials: http://www.asianart.org/schoolprograms.htm#resource)
- The
Institute of East Asian Studies at U. C. Berkeley : public lectures,
publications, and symposia.
http://ieas.berkeley.edu - Maps
of Asia (Texas U.)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html - Museums in the Online Archive includes lots of East Asian visual materials including Chinese scrolls from the Berkeley Art Museum http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/virtual/moac
- Online Curriculum: Travel the deserts and mountain passes of Central
Asia with From
Silk to Oil: Cross-Cultural Connections Along the Silk Road.
This book of global studies curriculum, funded by the U.S. Department
of Education and produced by China Institute, begins in the second
century BCE and ends in the contemporary period. A pdf file of the
book is online at:
http://www.chinainstitute.org/educators/silkguide.html - Selected
Bibliography of Resources on East Asia for K-12 classrooms compiled
by the East Asian Study Center at Indiana University.
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eeasc/bibliography/ - China the Beautiful
Good pages for students on: Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy,
Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy webmastered
by Ming L. Pei.
http://chinapage.com/china.html - China Today data base
on China.
http://www.chinatoday.com/ - Patricia Ebrey's site A
Visual Sourcebook for Chinese Civilization is a great resource
for images specially organized for teaching Chinese history, culture
and society. It also has good time lines and maps.
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/ - National Clearinghouse for
US-Japan Studies: Lots of information for teaching about Japan
including internet resources, lesson plans, and publications.
http://spice.stanford.edu/ - New
York Times site
on contemporary China. In a discussion arranged by The Times on
the Web, experts consider the state of modern China in this exclusive
audio report. Additional features include a collection of
articles, maps, slide shows and reader discussions that bring you
a detailed look at the religious, economic and military issues facing
Communist China.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/index-china.html - Peabody Essex Museum
Teacher Resources: China, Japan, and Korea.
http://www.pem.org/visit/ed_asia.php - Japan: This visual
literacy exercise created by Lee A. Makela at Cleveland State
University is based on selected woodblock prints from a famous series
depicting scenic views of the Fifty Three Stations of the Tokaido.
It provides a rigorous exercise in studying elements of geography
and culture through images.
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vlehome.html - Journey Through
Japan from the Japan Foudation offers materials for K-12
educators including background readings for teachers and students,
lesson plans, maps, an interactive timeline and an extensive photo
gallery.
http://www.journeythroughjapan.org/ - KoreaK12.org: Lesson Books
and Curriculum Materials from the Korea
Society. Highly recommended!
http://koreak12.org/
- Ten Years After NAFTA: How Has Globalization Affected Mexico? (Three-day teacher's institute organized by the Center for Latin American Studies, July 21-23, 2003)
- Teaching Resources from the Center for Latin American Studies: Maps, Graphs for Population and Economics and Timelines
- MIGRATIONS:
A Collection of Views on Mexican Immigration to the United States
- suite of Digital Learning Materials, produced at the Center
for Latin American Studies, introduces
students and learners to the history and some of the challenges surrounding the immigration of Mexicans to the United States. The website outlines immigration issues along the Mexico/United States border from the Treaty of Guadalupe, in 1848, up to recent contactsbetween the Fox/Bush administrations. - ORIAS Mesoamerican literature links page - archived from History Through Literature 7th grade workshop.
- The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)at U. C. Berkeley. The maintains a web page with useful links to history through literature,the independence of India and the creation of Pakistan, developed during their outreach conferences during the past two years.
- Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the US: selected internet resources posted by CSAS
- CSEEES 9-11 PAGE. The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasion Studies has posted a web page listing resources and experts on Afghanistan and Central Asia relevant to the events of September 11, 2001. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iseees/9-11page.html
- Kiren Chaudhry (Political Science, UC Berkeley) "American Foreign Policy and the Birth of the Taliban" can be downloaded from the Center for South Asia Studies site. MP3 sound file.
- Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California. This exhibit mounted by South and Southeast Asian Library at U. C. Berkeley has put their wonderful catalogue full of great photos and history on-line at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/echoes/toc.html
- ORIAS Current Conflicts Working Group (2003) includes a class page with recommended links on Kashmir at http://orias.berkeley.edu/2003/peace/peaceKashmir.htm
- India: The University of Washington South Asia Center's has a very useful outreach page with lessons and links.
- First stop for web resources on the Ramayana is "The Ramayana, an Enduring Tradition: its Text and Context"
- Timeline of ancient India http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/timeline/timeline.htm
- Digital South Asia Library at University of Chicago http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
- The American Forum for Global Education posts an extensive curriculum guide at: Teaching Contemporary South Asia . Focusing on the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Teaching Contemporary South Asia features a multimedia collection of primary and secondary source materials, narratives, literature, poetry, maps and video clips designed to supplement and enrich existing classroom documents. http://www.teachingsouthasia.org
- ORIAS teacher's page for Ramayana
- ORIAS teacher's page for Mithila
Painting
- The
Center for Southeast Asian Studies at U. C. Berkeley
- Southeast Asia Film Guide (Sarah Maxim, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, U. C. Berkeley)
- Teaching About Southeast Asia. During the Summer 2001 three educators spent six weeks as visiting scholars at ORIAS researching and developing materials on Southeast Asia appropriate for K-12 curriculum in California. The project was funded by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at U. C. Berkeley. The teacher/scholars and their projects were:
- Kay Corcoran (6th grade teacher at White Hill, Fairfax): Maritime Spice Trade from Southeast Asia to Rome. (site under construction at Monsoon Winds to the "Land of Gold")
- Donna Kasprowicz (6th grade teacher at Corte Madera Middle School, Portola Valley): The Ramayana in Southeast Asia.
- Peter Whittlesey (former Library Media Coordinator and teacher currently living in Laos): A web reference of annotated sites for teaching about Southeast Asia
- East Timor, The World's Newest Country: high school level workbook on East Timor is available on line from Center for South East Asia Studies at the University of Hawaii.
- Field Guide to Hmong Culture - from the Madison Children's Museum http://csumc.wisc.edu/cmct/HmongTour/howwedidit/HMONG_FIELD_GUIDE_WEB.pdf
- U.C.
Irvine Library Southeast Asia Archive
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/sasian.html - An excellent slide show with hip-hop soundtrack documenting Cambodian-American life in the US since 1996, and more recently the deportation of Cambodian-Americans back to Cambodia. This is the work of Stuart Isett, a photographer who has lived for a long time in SEA and is now based in Seattle. The link to the slideshow is: http://isett.com/lostboyz.mov. The photos are also on his regular website: http://www.isett.com.
- The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at U. C. Berkeley. The ISEEES maintains an outreach page which includes a list of useful websites for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
-
AFRICA
EAST ASIA
CHINA
JAPAN
KOREA
From the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley:
SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN
STUDIES
- Global Connections: the Middle East. A rich educator's site hosted by PBS with maps, time lines, lessons, organizing themes and questions. Sections on U.S. Foreign Policy; Relgious Militancy; Roles of Women; Stereotypes; Natural Resources; Nation-States.
- The Center for Middle
Eastern Studies at U. C. Berkeley
- Innovative Approaches To Teaching About Islam In The Pre-Collegiate Classroom: A Special Panel for K-12 Teachers and Other Scholars at the Middle East Studies Annual Meeting. November 21, 2004. Topics archived from this panel cover films, videos, music, dolls, and law.
- ORIAS working group on Iraq
- Teaching About the Middle East. This page of resources on using film, literature and the Internet as teaching resources was developed by ORIAS for the 2001 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting.
- Islam Project. ORIAS maintains an extensive list of web resources on Islam and in 1997-98 collaborated in an Interactive University Project with Nick Bartel and Marg Costello at Horace Mann Middle School in San Francisco to integrate technology into the 7th grade curriculum on the Spread of Islam. The teachers have also created a very helpful web page with their own class experiences and a thoughtful collection of links for student research.
- Interactive Video Tapestry: Young Americans - both male and female, ages 16 - 24 across a spectrum of religious, ethnic and cultural backgrounds are interviewed about their post-9/11 views on the Middle East. It is organized in such a way that the interviews can be views individually or answers compared across the group. It makes an excellent discussion resource and model for similar student interview projects.
- http://www.videotapestry.org/
- 100 Questions
and Answers About Arab American: A Journalist Guide (by the
Detroit Free Press)
http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/arabs/ - Arab world in the Middle East and North Africa
- Beduin weaving Information and articles written, with many photos, on Beduin textile techniques and lifestyles in Arabia.
- Jewish Agency for Israel education page.
- Maps
- Israel/Palestine conflict (ORIAS working group 2002-3)
- MEARO (Middle Easter American
Resources On-line) is a joint project of the UCLA Middle Eastern
American Program based at the Center for Near Eastern Studies and
the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate
Center, City University of New York (CUNY).
http://www.mearo.org
- The Institute of European Studies at U. C. Berkeley : posts an extensive collection of resources and links on individual European countries and the European Union at http://ies.berkeley.edu/resources/index.html
- German Unification Case Study is a very well done lesson activity for high school students out of a team at Stanford University with funding from Foothill College.
"The purpose of this case study is to jointly resolve particular issues surrounding German unification. Each participant assumes a German character and takes part in a roundtable discussion. There are two discussion groups, each dealing with separate, yet interconnected issues. Each group has a mixture of East and West Germans. The first group focuses on social issues such as abortion rights, child care and housing rights. The second group deals with issues surrounding the military, border guards and environmental protection.By assuming the identity of a German character and participating in a discussion group, you will experience the challenges which Germans faced in the process of uniting two countries under vastly different political systems. This Web site and its links will help you to explore your character's background and the individual as well as national issues s/he faces. During the discussion, your group's task is to forge a working relationship and to come to mutually agreed upon solutions to ethical, social and economic issues."
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