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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

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. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. To some extent, it's externally-driven.

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She has created sculpture, mosaics, paintings, stories, and children's stories and coloring books. The coloring book, How the People Became Color Blind , was a series of sketches and a children's story that teachers have used all over the country. Could you write a story? Could you draw a picture?

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