Online Resources

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Wayang kulit

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/indonesia/teacher/classrom/wayang.htm  Similarities and Differences: Wayang Forms (Lower secondary arts unit)

http://www.balibeyond.com/wayangbali.html Wayang Bali

http://www.balibeyond.com/wayangjava.html  Wayang Java

http://www.balibeyond.com/makingwayang.html Making Wayang

http://discover-indo.tierranet.com/wayang.html Wayang Kulit: Indonesian Shadow Puppets

http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/indonesi/puppets/wayang.htm Art-Pacific: Guide to Artifacts - Indonesian Puppets

http://www.copa-puppets.org/copa-ucla.html  Conservatory of Puppetry Arts site with information about puppetry from many different countries

http://balisource.com/kulit/kulitcharacters.html has excellent colour pictures of identified wayang kulit characters

http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/indonesia/teacher/pdf/wayang.pdf Wayang quiz, also has the same puppet character from Bali and Java.

http://www.babadbali.com/seni/wayang/wayang-kulit.htm#top Wayang kulit (in Bahasa Indonesia)

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daftar_Tokoh_Wayang Daftar tokoh wayang - list of wayang characters from Indonesian Wikipedia (in Bahasa Indonesia)

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/tripIndwayang.htm Simple information in English, for younger students

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Indonesian/Wayang/contents/Defaultpage.htm Northern Illinois Uni wayang website, in Bahasa Indonesia and English

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/indonesian/unit13/way1r.htm Information on wayang kulit in fairly simple Indonesian

Gamelan

http://alek.zipzap.ch/gamelan/inde_eng.htm Excellent site covering many aspects of gamelan in an interesting way

http://www.balibeyond.com/gamelanaudio.html Gamelan Audio, with sound files

http://indonesia.elga.net.id/music.html Indonesian music

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Indonesian/Budaya_Bangsa/Gamelan/
Main_Page/main_page.htm Summarises beliefs and role of gamelan with sound file examples of Balinese and Javanese gamelan

Ramayana and Mahabharata

http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/mythology_from_india useful site listing and rating sites about Indian epics including the Mahabharata and Ramayana

http://www.ramayana.com/ A site offering resources including a 'Where's Hanuman?' poster similar to 'Where's Wally?'

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/indonesia/teacher/classrom/mahab.htm  The Mahabharata: An Indonesian Perspective (Lower Secondary English Unit)

Cerita rakyat

http://oia.osu.edu/ncta/east/clendenen2.pdf Asian Cinderella Tales: Planning for a learning sequence comparing Asian and 'western' Cinderella stories

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/MYbaseE.HTML  Traditional stories from Indonesia

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

http://www.asiaeducation.edu.au/indonesia/ Access Asia, resources for the teaching of Indonesian for teachers and students