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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. The American Museum of Natural History had two wonderful moments happening this summer.

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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

Museum 2.0

The never-quite-opened National History Museum of the Netherlands created an innovative vending machine for historic objects, which traveled to festivals and urban centers for people to add their memories. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Versioning by saving a history of changes (who and when) that can be viewed and compared. Fundraising presentations. Can you find more?

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

Museum 2.0

NISE-NET is probably the single largest investment that the National Science Foundation has made in informal learning, with the intention of spreading knowledge about nano science. I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. It hasn''t.

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