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ASOP Educational Resources: WebWatch - Asian and International Weblinks


WebWatch is a regular feature of the weekly ASOP-VT News (to subscribe contact Duncan McCutchan)

This page features an archive of outstanding and useful new websites related to Asia and/or
international education which have appeared in that publication. The Archive is organized roughly
into these catagories: Asia, China, Japan, Thailand, International Education, and Education

Asia

NY Times Asia-Pacific News
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/asia/

The Asia Society -- This homesite serves as a portal to a variety of important Asian resource websites
http://www.asiasociety.org/
Asia Source -- An amazing source for many types of Asian information
http://www.asiasource.org/
Ask Asia -- K-12 resources on Asia
http://www.askasia.org/
Asia Food -- Recipes and food information
Places

Online: East and South Asia
http://placesonline.org/sitelists/esa/esa.asp

Country Reports
http://www.countryreports.org/ 
   

Wanderlust: China, Thailand and Nepal
http://www.zama.com/wanderlust.html

Portal to Asian Internet Resources
http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/PAIR/index.html

Vermont Governor's Institute on Asian Cultures (for Vermont high school students)
http://www.uvm.edu/~outreach/GIAC

China

Six China Webquests
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/


Asian American Cultural Exchange (2004 exchange program between Vermont and Kunming, Yunnan PRC high schools)
http://www.aacexchange.org

Journey East at Leland and Gray High School, Townsend , Vermont
http://www.wcsu.k12.vt.us/~lguhs/je

Dim Sum: New Year or Spring festival
http://www.newton.mec.edu/Angier/DimSum/china__dim_sum__spring_fes.html

The Face of a Lion
http://www.museumca.org/global/education/fcguide/activity11.html

Flags and Facts: China
http://click.nationalgeographic.email-publisher.com/maabNKaaa3a1IacFOwjbeKNqYg/

Japan

In the moonlight, a worm.....Writing Haiku
http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/

National Clearinghouse for US - Japan Studies
http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/index.html

Thailand

 

International Education

Friends of International Education e-newsletter
http://www.friendsofinternationaled.org

International Education (a new organization formed by a coalition of international education groups)
http://www.internationaled.org

Friendship Though Education
http://www.friendshipthrougheducation.org

UN CyberSchoolbus
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus

US Committee on UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org

Global Schoolnet
http://www.globalschoolnet.org

IEARN
http://www.iearn.org

Worldwise Schools
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/

Model UN Program
http://www.amun.org

Net Aid
http://www.netaid.org

People to People
http://www.ptpi.org

Sister Cities International
http://www.sister-cities.org

Education

New York Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/

Thinkquest (A contest for students and an archive of amazing student online projects)
http://www.thinkquest.org/index.html

GLEF Blast E-newsletter (George Lucas Educational Foundation)
http://www.glef.org

Ozline: Learning with Webquests
http://www.ozline.com/learning/

Choices Program at Brown University
http://www.choices.edu/index.cfm



Copyright 2003
Asian Studies Outreach Program at University of Vermont
Last updated July 10, 2007