News Source for Students?

[Josh Wilson]

I think you are probably not looking for email alerts, actually - but rather
something more along the lines of social media. 

You might check out our FB page - covers only Russia really with a little
Ukraine, Belarus, and Central Asia thrown in sometimes. 
http://www.facebook.com/SRASFB 

For email stuff, our monthly newsletter is good as well - although they can
get most of the content on the FB page too - and in a more sporadic format
so as to space it out and not overwhelm (as our newsletter can do
sometimes). Our last two: 
http://www.sras.org/newsletter (Race in Russia)
http://www.sras.org/newsletter_october_2010 (Translation and Central Asia) 

For video - there is a great series out there run by Tsar Podcast on YouTube
(which has email update option).
http://www.youtube.com/user/tkirby3679 

There are also a few other online publications/blogs that are more
pop-culture (and sometimes more myth than fact) than anything else, but
still a lot of fun. 
www.englishrussia.com/
http://bearsandvodka.com/

You might also point them at this: http://www.sras.org/library Which has
resources for just about anything you might want to find out, including a
lot of new sources. 

If your students have specific interests, maybe let us know - there are
decent English-language resources out there for just about any topic (though
granted, they more are serious - but if you can find something that they
really like, say military concerns, than a very focused but more serious
resource might be just what that particular student needs).

Best, 

Josh Wilson
Assistant Director
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
Editor in Chief
Vestnik, The Journal of Russian and Asian Studies
SRAS.org 
jwilson at sras.org
 



 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Graber
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:01 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] News Source for Students?

I would like to be able to sign my students up for a short digest or email
alerts on Russia and Eastern Europe. Ideally, the alerts would be aimed at
undergrads with little to no knowledge of Russia and Eastern Europe, with
sufficient background on the issues, focused on cultural/historical trends
and developments, and short and clever enough so that they would pique the
students' curiosity and foil the students' natural inclination to simply
delete them and move on. Videos would work as well.

I realize that the odds are against such a service existing, but I thought
I'd try the list before attempting to create something like this myself.

Dave Graber
University of North Carolina at Wilmington



      

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