Principal Investigators: Tawny Paul, UCLA Public History Initiative Director, and Doug Barrera, Associate Director at the UCLA Center for Community Learning
Methods and/or Tools: Digital Storytelling; Instructional Design; Website
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In Search of LA is a digital hub for making histories and telling stories about Los Angeles neighborhoods, past and present. In this Capstone, students will contribute to the development of a prototype website that will bring together resources and scholarship that facilitate place-based research in Los Angeles.
Students will learn about participatory digital storytelling and will explore how the process of analyzing sources and creating histories can be democratized through user-generated online content. Depending on student interest, there will be opportunities to document neighborhood histories by identifying and interpreting resources and to contribute to the design of a user-generated content platform.