About the Author
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Laura Lewis is a former teacher, Web site developer, staff developer and a third-year doctoral student at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education in Curriculum and Instruction who is also a full-time mother of daughters Hannah and Hillary.
Laura has taught in diverse communities from a low-income housing development in St. Paul, Minneapolis to Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. In l995 she received her M.A.T. from The George Washington University Museum Education Program where she specialized in object based teaching as it takes place within a museum environment and through computer-based simulations of the "real world." In l996 she was hired by the Illinois State Museum to help create the online exhibit "At
Home in the Heartland Online." The Website received online
acclaim making it onto such lists as Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators.
A chance meeting with Jamie McKenzie at the first Museums and the World
Wide Web conference led to their co-creation of the Virtual Museum Workshop.
Through this workshop Laura met and coached teachers in Illinois and
Michigan in the creation of simple websites with a powerful message--use
the medium to connect with local cultural arts organizations. Inspired
by this experience she worked extensively with faculty and students
at the Woodberry Forest prep school in Virginia helping teachers coach
students in the creation of websites as diverse as: honoring Chaucer,
analyzing the French
Revolution and exploring Rome
of the Caesars.
Laura Lewis
Arachnerd (http://www.arachnerd.com)
100 West Park Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22901
(434) 245-6464
lclewis@arachnerd.com
PAPERS & CONFERENCES
“Forming a Museum/School Resource Via the World Wide Web.”
Presented at: The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums 1998 Conference, Rochester, NY, The Jefferson Center for Educational Design 1997 Conference, Charlottsville, VA
“The Process of Creating an Online Exhibit for the Classroom.”
Presented at: The Museums and The Web 1997 Conference, Los Angeles, CA
And National Association for Humanities Education 1997 Biennial Conference, Provo, UT
ARTICLES
“At Home in the Heartland Online: The Process of Creating an Online Exhibit for the Classroom” by Laura Lewis for Interdisciplinary Humanities, v. 14.2, Provo, Utah: National Association for Humanities Education, l998.
“Teaching History with Material Culture” by Laura Lewis and Jan Wass for the Illinois History Teacher, Springfield, IL: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 1998.
"Bringing an Online Museum Exhibit to Classrooms," by Laura Lewis for the The Well-Connected Educator Publishing Center and Forum, www.gsh.org/wce/articles.htm, May l997.
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