Teaching Materials Website

Sat Mar 8 23:26:20 UTC 2008

The Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore is pleased to  
announce a major update to its Shkola website at  
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/Shkola.

This website assembles materials for the Ukrainian bilingual program.   
It contains pictures and videos from Ukraine.  Emphasis is on children  
and their lives.  We show a city apartment and a village house.  Both  
are available in 3-D Virtual Reality so that the visitor can walk  
around the dwelling and look inside various rooms.  Several of the  
dwellings have guided tours provided by the Ukrainian child living  
there.

There are pictures of household items such as furniture and household  
goods such as milk, juice, bread, and so forth.  One village has a  
short video of baba providing a tour of her garden and speaking about  
her vegetables.  There are units on shopping and on transportation.   
The shopping unit shows stores, kiosks, markets, and the products sold  
in each.

One unit shows schools.  It includes pictures of school interiors,  
children providing tours of the school, and a video of the first  
bell, the ceremony marking the beginning of the school year.  The  
unit on games has children introducing themselves, then giving a  
description of their games, then demonstrating how each game is played.

Some units have an interactive find the (moloko, boroshno, derevo,  
domovyk) feature and more such quizzes are being constructed.   
Workbooks that can be downloaded and printed out are also planned.

The text is in Ukrainian and the materials selected are geared to the  
Alberta recommendations for Ukrainian Language Arts: Kindergarten  
through Grade 9.  The website is also being used in Saskatchewan and  
Manitoba and is under consideration in other provinces.

Feedback is welcome.  Please write to nataliek at ualberta.ca or  
peter.holloway at ualberta.ca.

Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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