Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors. I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. In places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Her talk was inspiring and often humorous, sharing her stories to illustrate her life's work as an artist, activist, author, teacher, and parent. According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. It’s all about who has the authority to identify things. Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Why would they want to do that?

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