Chinese New Year Where I Am

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About Chinese New Year Where I Am

A really simple picture project for the Chinese New Year. Feb. 3, 2011: The Year of The Rabbit.

Share photos of your local celebrations by adding them to this group, and see how others are welcoming the Year of the Rabbit around the world. Let's build a resource to share our Chinese New Year traditions, and to help students learn about the holiday and explore other cultures.

How to Participate:

Take a picture of Chinese New Year celebrations and decorations wherever you are and post it to the group.

All images must be geotagged so they can be added to the map.

1. Please use the tag 'cnypics11' and make the title of your photo descriptive - for example, Chinese New Year in Melbourne, Australia or CNY Decorations in Sydney, Australia.
2. Please add as much info as you can about where the pic was taken and why you took it.
3. Please license your image so that is is available for reuse.

Images with creative commons licenses may also be used on the Voice of America's website (http://www.voanews.com).

Use the discussion board if you have any comments or questions.

Where did the idea come from?

Chinese teacher Jess (@jessmcculloch) started the project to build a classroom resource for students to see what Chinese New Year looks like across the globe. Her goal was to prompt discussions in classes worldwide about the Chinese New Year.

Voice of America heard about the project and had two thoughts: (1) What a great idea - we'd love to help! (2) What a great idea - we wish we'd thought of that! So VOA joined in to co-sponsor the project and help build this great resource for students - and everyone else - around the world.

http://www.voanews.com