Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Museums get our visitors for an hour or two if we’re lucky.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Classroom 35

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. Do mashups and the notion of content remix finally fulfill the promises once made by proponents of learning objects?

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Remix Mashup PowerPoint Classroom 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

If you’re courageous and know your content backwards, display the back channel on a screen that everyone (including you) can see. While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well.

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Reflection Conference Resource Arts 69

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. a way to catalyze conversations among diverse people, mediated by their objects. They come up with a theme, a date, and invite people to come.

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Museum Denver Netherlands Classroom 55