November 9, 1998 RELEASE ON RECEIPT		Oberlin Public School Teachers to Demonstrate Technology Projects on Local History Media Contact: Marci Janas
			OBERLIN, OHIO -- Oberlin Public School teachers from grades three through eight will offer a public demonstration of the technology-rich local history projects that they have been working on in their classrooms this year. The demonstration, titled "Teaching with Technology," will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 16, in the library of Langston Middle School, 150 N. Pleasant St., Oberlin, Ohio. "Teaching with Technology" concludes a year-long series of workshops conducted by Oberlin College faculty and staff and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH]. "In using computer technology, Oberlin's teachers have brought new ways of thinking about history--and of doing history--into their classrooms. They are helping students to build vital links between our past and our future," says Gary Kornblith, professor of history at Oberlin College and director of the NEH Project. "This has been an exciting and truly collaborative project." Monday's program will include demonstrations of electronic projects on Oberlin abolitionists; integration of Oberlin history materials into middle school mathematics; student explorations of Oberlin's open housing debates of the 1960s; information on using the World Wide Web for presentations of family history; and the creation of a Civil War newspaper by Eastwood Elementary students. When completed, most projects will appear on the Web site of the Oberlin Public Schools (www.oberlin.k12.oh.us). Some projects also will link to the Web site of the Electronic Oberlin Group (www.oberlin.edu/~EOG), which aims to make Oberlin history available in digital form to community members of all ages and to scholars around the world. Several of the Oberlin public school teachers involved with the projects have been assisted this fall by Oberlin College students enrolled in "Oberlin History as American History," a course developed by Associate Professor of History Carol Lasser with support from the Ameritech Foundation. Teachers and students have also benefited from hardware, software, and instruction funded by the Oberlin Schools technology tax levy and through its "Raising the Bar" grant from the Ohio Technological Literacy Challenge Fund to Langston Middle School. For more information, please call: Gary Kornblith (440) 775-8526 (home: 774-3087), Carol Lasser (440) 775-6712, or Sue McDaniel, Langston Middle School, 775-7961.