Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

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. The interest is there.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

What was the basis for this project? How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? 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? Why is that?

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NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2008

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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Survey NSF Open Source Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. As of today, ScratchR boasts 236,997 projects created by 37,820 contributors of ScratchR's 174,425 registered members. The ScratchR spectators are part of the 5 million+ ScratchR website visitors who check out projects but don't join.

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