Online resources

The websites below are primarily for teacher use. Please check websites before giving students access to them.
If a link does not open, try copying the link and pasting it into the address bar of your browser.

About geckos:

http://www.gekkota.com/ Gecko enthusiasts’ page

http://www.gekkota.com/html/gecko_sounds.html gecko sounds

http://www.gekkota.com/html/gecko_photos.html photos

http://www.geckoranch.com/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/476.shtml Wonderful fact page on the Tokay gecko Gekko gecko

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/features/242index.shtml Interesting science article about how geckos walk up walls

http://www.wildherps.com/species/H.frenatus.html Pictures of common house gecko, taken in Indonesia

Indonesian folk stories of animals:

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/catalog/readers.htm Readers Theatre Using an Indonesian Folktale - Cicak and Kancil

http://www.st.rim.or.jp/%7Ecycle/MYdeerE.HTML Mouse Deer and Otter's Child

http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/R01.html The Adventures of Mouse Deer

http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~cycle/MYdeerE.HTML Traditional stories from Indonesia
 

Indonesian bathrooms (mandi):

http://www.petermoore.net/peter/prelives/indo_84/slide011.htm Photograph of bak mandi, Solo

http://www.tactileint.com/seasia/indonesia.html Description of using Indonesian bathroom

Do an 'Image search' on Google at www.google.com.au to find photographs of Indonesian mandis

Online dictionaries:

http://www.kamus-online.com/?lang=en  

http://www.toggletext.com/  Toggletext can 'translate' web pages as well as passages of text. Of course, like all automatic translation sites it has limitations.

Other useful resources:

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/nalsas/pdf/assessing.pdf  A research report on assessing and reporting student outcomes in Asian languages (Japanese and Indonesian). Contains the Key Performance Measures tables for Indonesian.

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/ Asia EdNet

http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/aef/ Asia Education Foundation

http://www.thelearningfederation.edu.au/tlf2/ The Learning Federation

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