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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.

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms? Check them out here.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

What was the basis for this project? There was a need recognized and that need was that exhibits and exhibitions were being redesigned over and over again without that sense of history. How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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