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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

Museum 2.0

For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. The “travel bugs” that Seth!

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. We need labels AND audio AND post-its AND collage-making AND games AND meditation.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Steven: Hey, Kishshana, we lost your audio. Do y’all know what that is?

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

You can view (and download ) the slides and audio here, which feature our provocations and the discussion that followed. The audio starts noisy. Over 100 participants contributed post-its to the comfort map (shown at right) with examples in the categories of "safe," "iffy," and "no way." but it gets better.

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