Websightings: Using the Internet to Teach About Eastern Europe

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Websightings Using the Internet to Teach About
Eastern Europe

• Jacqueline M. Olich, Ph.D.
• Fellow, UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian,
• and East European Studies
• jmolich_at_email.unc.edu,

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Introductions

• Ask your neighbor
• Where and what he or she teaches
• How (if?) he or she currently teaches about
  Eastern Europe
• What he or she hopes to get out of this workshop

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Some Approaches

• Geographic
• Biographic
• Comparative
• Political

• Topical
• Historical
• Cultural
• Personal

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Did you know. . .

• Sixteen U.S. Department of Education-designated
  National Resource Centers for Eastern Europe,
  Russia, and Central Asia support instruction,
  teacher training and outreach, speakers,
  conferences, workshops and other similar projects
  

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Including our own . . .

• Consult with the Joint Duke/UNC Center for
  Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
  resourceful faculty and staff to answer questions
  and provide guest speakers.
• http//www.unc.edu/depts/slavic
• http//www.duke.edu/web/CSEEES/

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Geography and Demography

• Federation of East European Family History
  Societies Map Room http//www.feefhs.org/newest_ma
  p.html
• Country Reports and Links http//www.duke.edu/web/
  CSEEES/countries.html

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Biography

• Historian Timothy Garton Ash on Lech Walesa
• http//www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/w
  alesa.html

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Comparisons

• Robert Justin Goldstein, The European
  Revolutions of 1848 and 1989 A Comparative
  Analysis, http//cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/chastain/
  dh/eurorev.htm

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Eastern Europe As A Theater Of The Cold War

• The Cold War Science and Technology Studies
  Program, http//www.cmu.edu/coldwar/index.html
• Cold War International History Project,
  http//wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id1409fuseac
  tiontopics.home

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News and Periodicals

• Central Europe On-line, http//www.centraleurope.c
  om/
• Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
  Newsline, http//www.rferl.org/newsline/search/

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News and Periodicals, continued

• News from the Czech Republic
• http//www.columbia.edu/js322/czech.html
• Warsaw Voice, http//www.warsawvoice.com.pl
• The Prague Post, http//www.praguepost.cz/
• Budapest Sun, http//www.budapestsun.com

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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook Eastern
  Europe Since 1945, http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/
  mod/modsbook50.html
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
  Nineteenth-century Eastern Europe,
  http//www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook25.html
  

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Making Connections

• Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections,
  http//www.iecc.org/
• International Pen Friends, http//www.europa-pages
  .com/penpal_form.html
• The International Youth Initiative,
• http//ics.soe.umich.edu/

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What Unites Us All?

• The Cultures and Cuisines of Eastern Europe
  http//www.unc.edu/depts/slavic/publications/broch
  ure2.html
• Andras Koerner, A Taste of the Past The Daily
  Life and Cooking of a Nineteenth-Century
  Hungarian Jewish Homemaker, 2003.
• UNC Davis Library TX723.5.H8 K64 2004

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Additional Resources

• Russian and East European Studies Virtual Library
  http//www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb
• World Wide Web Virtual Library Czech
  History http//www.ukans.edu/history/VL/europe/cze
  ch.html
• World Wide Web Virtual Library Roma/Gypsies
  http//www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/vlib/

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Wrap Up

• Sharing strategies and links
• Print first page of web resource and file in
  binder for later use
• The Internet Public Library, http//www.ipl.org/
• Czech Happenings, http//www.ceskenoviny.cz/news
  /
• News Directory, http//newsdirectory.com/
• World Press Review Online, http//www.worldpress.o
  rg/
• British Broadcasting Resources
• http//www.bbc.co.uk/history/
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/default.stm