Website review-Japanese American National Museum

[Stella Castro]

For my website review I chose to look at the Japanese American National Museum website. I chose this website location because it on the approved field trip locations for LAUSD. Plus it is conveniently located near Downtown Los Angeles making this location accessible from any nearby cities.
Unfortunately the JANM does not offer free admission /for students, but they do offer discounts. They do have Free Admission Grants offered to Title 1 schools that show financial need. However the visit must be for guided and facilitated visits and are subject to strict rules. They also have free transportation funds grants to the museum but teachers have to apply.
In their website it has listings and the descriptions of the current exhibits, and new happenings, here at the JANM, and around town. Currently it has an exhibit called TRANSPACIFIC BORDERLANDS; the art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, running from Sept.17, 20117- February 25, 2018. This exhibit sounds very interesting.
The website also has a blog page; the blog page has topics such as Jewelry by Designer Hisano Shepherd, and a vegetarian guide to dine in Little Tokyo, (where the JANM is located).
The JANM also has family days usually offered once a month. In these family days the events range from face painting to watching dance troupes such as an urban Latin Dance Theater, (CONTRA_TEMPO), which uses dance to teach about social change, combining cultural history , community and education. This dance troupe offers weekly classes called offer Sabor Sessions, which is a drop in community dance classes at Community Coalition in South LA, where members of the community can learn new forms of dance and get to know one another. This is a good social outlet for students. This also helps the students develop their self-confidence skills, and help sham enhance their fine motor skills, both Alternate Curriculum standards.
The website also has a collections page whichfeatures selected highlights from their permanent collection with over 60,000 unique artifacts, documents, and photographs which are in this collection.
The website also has a page of teacher resources in which the topics range from Japanese American confinement sites to a mass incarceration fact sheet. This page is full of a variety of interesting topics, in which one-self would have to look at, in order to satisfy ones curiosity. Also included in this section is an informative selection about a National diversity Education Program, which is designed to teach about the complexities of diversity and a new approach to diversity education. .
This website also has a museum store that sells many books that look quite interesting to purchase. Other items for sale are caps, socks, t-shirts, earrings, pins and even a baby onesies.
There was a page titled janmKIDSm but the several times that I tried accessing it was unavailable, so I cannot comment on that page and that was the whole purpose of visiting this website, to see what and how one can use this website as a learning and teaching tool for the students, and since I had already reviewed this website, written it I just kept it.
However, in this website at the home page in there, “What’s new section; they have a few things of interest. For instance, the viewing of a movie, a signing of a book by its author, just likes the things that were offered to us in this seminar. They also offer walking tours of Little Tokyo, on certain dates. This seem like an interesting opportunity to learn more about the in depth history of Little Tokyo, and/or Japan and an online resource for learning about the American concentration camps. So this website is useful for adults and people in general who want to learn more about Japan, and all of its ordeals.
http://www.janm.org

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