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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

A small room, packed with gadgets, packed with fossils, packed with tools, packed with PEOPLE everywhere making and exploring and building and learning. The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. That taught us a lot.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

That may be fine for people who want the exercise of reinventing the wheel, but it's a disaster if our goal is to grow and improve what we offer to visitors. Even if I WANT to learn from the exhibits that have come before and are coming up around the world, there's no obvious place to start studying. Enter ExhibitFiles. Why is that?

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. While most of my favorites are small (idiosyncrasy is easier to maintain without too many committees), some are quite large--places like the Exploratorium where a singular ethos infuses a massive facility. They are places that people point to with pride and say, "that's our place."

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was a survey lecture, beginning with her work in the sixities and first-hand accounts of the civil rights movement in her " American People Series " right up to her current work. The coloring book, How the People Became Color Blind , was a series of sketches and a children's story that teachers have used all over the country.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. ScratchR is a true social network, connecting hundreds of thousands of people--kids and adults--in about 200 countries around the world. Why people participate. Why people participate. Some people make games where you catch fireflies.