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From ORIAS:
From other centers at UCB with international programs:
Webcasts
- UC Berkeley videotaped courses and events,
including peace and conflict studies courses on Youtube.
http://uk.youtube.com/ucberkeley
- UC Berkeley lectures
on-line through Google
http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html
- UC Berkeley lectures and classes available on iTunes
http://itunes.berkeley.edu/
- Webcasts of prominent speakers
and events at UC Berkeley. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
Webcasts prominent speakers and events from the Graduate School of Journalism.
- Digital TV and the World is an initiative at the Graduate School of Journalism to create new styles of global reportage that take a close-up look at ordinary people and the issues they face. Students in the program begin by telling the stories of people who live in diaspora communities in California, then examine the fabric of life in communities overseas by traveling abroad on intensive reporting assignments. The resulting short videos are webcast by the Washington Post as "Emerging Voices"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/emergingvoices/index.html
- FORA.tv’s World forum includes some University speakers in their online video library. This is a very useful site - sort of UTube for the thinking person which includes multimedia commentary, discussion, and debate on world events and ideas by leading area experts recorded during public forums. Engaging and useful materials for high school classroom discussion “starters” abound.
http://fora.tv/section/world
Off-campus events:
- Asian Art Museum, San
Francisco: The education department at the museum conducts wonderful
teacher workshops in conjunction with its exhibits, and has published
equally wonderful teacher materials to go with them. These include videos,
resource packets and slide sets. Since moving from Golden Gate Park
to its new home in San Francisco's Civic Center in the fall of 2002
it has added an education resource center located right by the main
entrance including a good library, computers and viewing machines for
videos. A number of their resource packets are now in the ORIAS lending
library. If you have any questions about their resources or workshops,
contact Alina Collier at (415) 379-8710.
- Film and Video: East Asian Regional Materials
and Resources Center (EARMARC) maintains
an excellent catalogue of educational videos on East Asia. They may
be borrowed for classroom use by mail. You may request a catalogue by
mail: EARMARC c/o History Dept; San Jose State University, One Washington
Square; San Jose, CA 95192-0117. By telephone to : 408-924-5518
or 408-924-5523. By fax to 408-924-5531 and by email to ereynold@email.sjsu.edu
Twice a year EARMARC holds a Saturday workshop (generally at CSUEB
in Hayward) to screen interesting new materials. The workshop is open
to educators, students and the interested public. It is free and includes
lunch. Highly recommended!
- Teachers looking for good multi-cultural literature should watch for
the annual Reading
the World Conference at University of San Francisco in March. http://www.soe.usfca.edu/institutes/childlit/rtw6.html
- Silk Road House is a non-profit
organization near the U. C. Berkeley campus created to promote and support
an impressive array of diverse ethnic cultural traditions. There lectures
and exhibits series includes presentations on ancient and modern Central
Asia and other areas along the Silk Route.
- World stage in the San Francisco Bay
Area directory.
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- Aramco Educators to Saudi
Arabia Program.
www.iie.org/programs/aramco
Email: hhalenbeck@iie.org
- Department of State Intensive Summer Language Institutes for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian Teachers administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers in cooperation with American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS. Eligibility: - Speak Arabic, Chinese, or Russian at the intermediate or advanced levels. Be currently teaching Arabic, Chinese, or Russia as a foreign language at the primary or secondary level at an accredited U.S. public or private school or community college or be enrolled in a program leading to this career. Hold U.S. citizenship
http://www.americancouncils.org/programs.php?program_id=MTEy
Program Locations:
Arabic: Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Chinese: Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
Russian: Russian State Pedagogical University (Herzen), St. Petersburg, Russia
- The Fulbright-Hays
Seminars Abroad Program provides short-term study/travel seminars
abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities for
the purpose of improving their understanding and knowledge of the people
and culture of another country(ies). There are approximately seven to
ten seminars with fourteen to sixteen participants in each seminar annually.
Seminars are four to six weeks in duration. All seminars are held in
countries outside of Western Europe.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html
List of offerings at http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/applicant.html
- Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html
This program provides grants to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. Projects may include short-term seminars, curriculum development, group research or study, or advanced intensive language programs.
The GPA program oversees two competitions. It holds an annual competition for the following:
Short-Term Seminars - A short-term seminar is designed to help integrate international studies into an institution's or school system's general curriculum. Seminars normally are five to six weeks in length and focus on a particular aspect of area studies, such as the culture of the area or a portion of the culture.
A Curriculum Development Team - A curriculum development team, composed of several faculty members or teachers or administrators, may spend four to six weeks in a foreign country or region acquiring resource materials for curriculum development in the modern foreign language or area studies programs. Resource materials may include artifacts, documents, books, educational films, museum reproductions, recordings, and other instructional materials. The project shall provide a systemic use and dissemination in the US. of the acquired materials.
Group Research or Study Projects -- A group research or study project is designed to permit a group of faculty from institutions of higher education and graduate and undergraduate students to undertake research or study in a foreign country or region for a period of three to twelve months. The institution should make arrangements for any clearances or affiliations necessary for conducting research in the host country.
The GPA program holds a competition every four years for the following:
Advanced Overseas Intensive Language Projects - An advanced overseas intensive language project is designed to take advantage of the opportunities present in the foreign country by providing intensive advanced foreign language training. Language training shall be given at the advanced level, i.e., at the level equivalent to that provided to students who have successfully completed at least two academic years of language training. The language to be studied shall be indigenous to the host country and maximum use shall be made of local institutions and personnel. Under the grant, an advanced overseas intensive language project period may range up to four years (8 weeks minimum). Project activities may be carried out during a full year, an academic year, a semester, a trimester, a quarter, or a summer.
- Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO)
www.geeo.org
GEEO
is a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. GEEO hopes to make America more outward-looking by helping teachers travel and then giving them an effective way to share these experiences in their classrooms. Educators can earn graduate school credit and professional development credit while seeing the world. The trips are designed for teachers and include activities such as school visits and homestays that give participants authentic exposure to local culture.
In the summer of 2009 GEEO will run trips to Tunisia, Tanzania, Peru, Ecuador, Thailand, and India.
The trips are deeply discounted so as to be affordable to teachers. GEEO also helps teachers find funding to subsidize the cost of the trips.Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can also be reached 7 days a week, toll free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9AM-10PM EST. To sign-up for GEEO's listserv, please send an email to listserv@geeo.org with the subject line "subscribe."
Contact: Jesse Weisz, President and Founder
Toll-free: 1-877-600-0105
Mobile: 1-202-725-2151
jesse@geeo.org
- Japan
Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program (no longer available)
http://www.iie.org/Website/WPreview.cfm?WID=194
- Japan Society Educator's Study Tour
http://www.japansociety.org/educators_study_tour
- Korea Society offers educators fellowships for travel to Korea in
the spring and summer. Infomation at
http://www.koreasociety.org/korean_studies/fellowships/
- NEH Summer Seminars
and Institutes for Teachers in the United States.
http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html
- The University of California, Santa Cruz, will host a NEH summer seminar directed by Edmund (“Terry”) Burke III on “Production and Consumption in World History, 1450-1950” from June 28 – July 24, 2009.
Professor Burke has been a popular speaker at ORIAS institutes. This promises to be a fantastic seminar. Check out the flyer below for details.
Flyer - http://orias.berkeley.edu/updates/nehflyer.pdf
Contact - Director: Edmund Burke III (History / University of California, Santa Cruz) 831-459-2287 / NEHseminar@ucsc.edu
Application deadline: March 2, 2009.
- Have you ever wondered what it would be like to teach abroad? The
Institute of East Asian Studies has published an engaging and vivid
personal portrayal of how Americans adapt to living in China from the
perspective of thirty-six Americans sent by the Colorado China Council
to teach in universities in China in the 1990s. Alice Renouf, director
of the Colorado China Council, collected the letters under the title
Dear Alice: Letters Home from American Teachers
Learning to Live in China, Purchase information is
available from IEAS Publications at easia@berkeley.edu.
- If you are interested in spending time in Asia check out VIA
programs. Volunteers in Asia "sends between 30 - 40 English teachers
on a life-changing adventure to Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam and China.
Our mission and method are simple. We provide Asian host institutions
with needed resources, while at the same time offering volunteers a
unique opportunity to become a valued member of an Asian community."
info viaprograms.org
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