Introduction - 
Technology in the Arts and Humanities Classroom

 Tips from Technology
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  Contributors
Susan Anderson, Roosevelt High School, LAUSD

 Eunice Lu, Cleveland High School

 Stephen Metts, OnRamp Art

 James Blackwood, Emeritus, Venice High School

 Josephine Zarro, Manual Arts High School

 Alan Warhaftig, Fairfax Visual Arts Magnet

 Humanitas
Barbara Golding, LAUSD/LAEP

 Neil Anstead, LAUSD/LAEP

 Sofia Tower, LAEP

  Ways of Knowing and Doing in Arts and Humanities:

  Researching and Exploring

• Searching for My Cultural Roots, Part Two

The Internet for primary and secondary source data and information
 
 
• The Trial of Julius Caesar

The Internet for models of genre writing

• The Declaration Of Independence

Use the Internet as a research tool to find specific historical contexts and events that lie behind the charges against King George III in the Declaration of Independence.
 
 
• Study and Analysis of Migration

This project encourages students to develop a sophisticated understanding of migration, a phenomenon repeated throughout history (from country to country, form region to region within a country, and from rural to urban areas).
 
 
• Digital Dada

The Internet for examples of specific artists’ work and contextual information about a specific historical period.
 
 
• What is an American?

Web searching, information retrieval and word processing. 
 

• Organizing

Searching for My Cultural Roots, Part One
Word processing to organize research data

 Searching for My Cultural Roots, Part Three
Word processing to interpret research data
 
 

• Analyzing

Beach Burgers
Economics Lessons Using Spreadsheets
 
 
• Creating

Digital Dada
Image - based software to create original works of art
 
 
• Communicating

The Trial of Julius Caesar
Layout software to communicate points of view
 
 
• Searching for My Cultural Roots, Part Four

Presentation software to communicate results of research

  Updated February 2001.