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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 28, 2018
There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. A more participatory approach, and one that Allen Gunn uses, is to crowdsource provocative questions from participants. We chose the latter.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 19, 2017
As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 1, 2009
When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? This is a problem for two reasons.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 16, 2009
When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? This is a problem for two reasons.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 3, 2011
In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.
Museum 2.0
JULY 27, 2009
I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. The MP3 experiment is an exercise in following instructions. That cloud is pretty ugly.”
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