http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:56:12 PDT Tue, 21 May 2013 16:56:12 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=81107 Begins with the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 & ends with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It includes the Kronstadt uprising (1921), the death of Lenin (1924), the liquidation of the Kulaks as a class (1929), the year of the Stakhanovite (1936), the end of rationing (1947), the virgin lands campaign (1954), Khrushchev's secret speech (1956), the first cosmonaut (1961), the intervention in Czechoslovakia (1968), & Chernobyl (1986). (NEH) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=514290 Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, these Read Chinese! materials were developed to provide online e-learning reading lessons aimed at beginning and intermediate students of the language. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76449 The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=79566 The REALIA Project (Rich Electronic Archive for Language Instruction Anywhere) is a searchable, web-enabled database of images for use in teaching foreign languages.According to the authors: "The REALIA Project publishes faculty-reviewed media for the teaching and study of modern languages and cultures. The focus of the REALIA Project is realia: materials which convey the everyday life of different cultures." REALIA currently contains items in French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90754 This site offers "a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century." The collection is categorized by First-Person Narratives of the American South, a Library of Southern Literature, North American Slave Narratives, The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865 and The Church in the Southern Black Community. The collection can be searched by subject, author or title. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88300 This website offers a introductory tour of French cities and regions. Click on the map to see pictures and short descriptions of a region's most famous features: monuments, folklore, food and wine. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=80596 Professor Thomas Duggan invites faculty to download his classroom PowerPoint slideshows. The programs include Spanish basic grammar and vocabulary presentations for introductory and intermediate levels of instruction. Duggan permits users to modify the slides for personal use, but requests that teachers let him know they're using them. The site will also display other people's PowerPoint slideshows. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90891 Extensive information about the Victorian era is available in sections such as: the Victorians, political history, social history, gender matters, philosophy, religion, science, technology, genre and technique, authors, viusal arts, Victorian design, and much more. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=88610 Story of Chinese Valentine's Day and Chinese love poems in traditional characters with English translation and information about the poets. There is audio for music and Chinese/English recitation of poems. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77578 This megasite was designed to help students understand Chinese history, culture, and society.