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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? If a photographer or videographer will be onsite give the volunteer a name tag in a different color, and let the photographer or videographer know to avoid those people. Go over procedures in documenting interactions. Does the parent have to accompany them?

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit. Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres.

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

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Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Eventually, the age gap will disappear as native users grow older and raise children who are native users. Tags: aarp age digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN Sami Hassanyeh.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? This experience is shared by folks who contribute data to Citizen Science projects , nominate concepts for MN150 , or perform research on the children of the Lodz ghetto. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 3: Pockets of Third Places

Museum 2.0

Our space for families with children under first grade, little kidspace , is the space in our building that seems to pretty consistently be a third place. Adults come with their children so regularly that we know many of them by name. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. So what’s my point here? What do you think?

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? This experience is shared by folks who contribute data to Citizen Science projects , nominate concepts for MN150 , or perform research on the children of the Lodz ghetto. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

Museum 2.0

Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). Science Museums and Science Centers OPPORTUNITIES - Science museums and science centers have a long history of interactive display techniques, which makes them naturally suited to encourage other kinds of active visitor participation. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects participatory museum.

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