• Our online course model is athttps://sites.google.com/a/kean.edu/as2000

• Our slides will be posted on • http://myildiz.weebly.com/presentations.html

• Our students Portfolios will be athttp://ukean.wikispaces.com/E-portfolios

AbstractThis presentation outlines the role of innovative interdisciplinary collaborations among the Asian Studies faculty in various disciplines; offers creative strategies and possibilities for integrating new technologies and 21st century skills into Asian Studies curriculum; •demonstrate Project Based Learning and experiential classroom activities; •and showcases undergraduate students’ interdisciplinary multimedia projects and digital stories.

We will explore wide range of meanings undergraduate students associated with•experiential and exploratory learning activities; •impact of new technologies in the curriculum;•the ways in which participants integrated interdisciplinary topics into their multimedia projects; •and how they gained alternative points of view on Asian Studies and •renewed interest and commitment to global stories and issues.

This presentation will discusses the role of developing innovative interdisciplinary introduction to Asian Studies course and integrating global literacies and new technologies as a means of further developing the 21st century skills among undergraduate students.

Conference participants will be able to:· argue the challenges and advantages of integrating new media and technologies into the Asian Studies course,· examine the process of preparing project based learning activities for an interdisciplinary teaching and learning,· explore lesson plans, assessment tools, curriculum guides and links to online resources and students' projects.

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Join us for this field trip to United Nations, Japan Society and Asia Society.

Bring total of $ 22 ($11 for United Nations Tour, $ 5 for Asia Society, $ 5 for Japan Society)Bring a healthy snack.Busing will be provided.First come first serve.

Contact us by March 23 to save a spot.

Melda Yildizmyildiz@kean.edu973-271-8013

March 28, 20128 AM-4:30PM

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• “Young people everywhere deserve the power to get information, connect and ask hard questions – about justice, equality and opportunity. Our job is to listen to youth and answer their calls."

• Baan Ki-Moon-

• Google Art Project

• http://www.un.org/sg/

• Asia in the News- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/asia/• Graphic Novel- http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/interview-tinas-mouth-author-has-graphic-novel-

take-indian-american-life• Personpolis- http://asiasociety.org/arts/literature/marjane-satrapi-i-will-always-be-iranian• Princess and Painters- http://sites.asiasociety.org/princesandpainters/• Newark Museum- http://www.newarkmuseum.org/

• Asia Society- http://asiasociety.org/

• Japan Society- http://www.japansociety.org/

• Moghal Empire- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi-

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/20/ED163673.DTL

• Quiz about Gandhi- http://www.gandhiserve.org/quiz/Mahatma_Quiz.html

• United Nations- http://www.un.org/en/

• United Nations Trivia- http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/world/organizations/united_nations.html