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Co-Creating Exhibits with Teens and Volunteers: The Importance of Criteria

Museum 2.0

They want articulated goals and expectations. This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. Tags: exhibition design usercontent.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. When they saw the results of that expression, they struggled with the content and eventually integrated it into their project in a way that diminished the teens’ involvement and hard work. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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One-Man Bands and Museum Labor as an Access Barrier

Museum 2.0

I hope to hear you articulate your thoughts in comments or on social. If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business. But as a field, we don’t always articulate our work norms to each other. There are plenty. Today, I’d like to call out a huge one.

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Diane told me several stories about teens who came in thinking of themselves as dumb but changed their perspective as their confidence grew in two areas they associated with intelligence--knowing science and being able to teach. YES students defy expectations.

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

Museum 2.0

You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." Tags: evaluation marketing. It's worth a lot to all of us!

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. Do they have a valid claim or not?

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