Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

Rufina’s new job is working for an education software start up that is developing operational software for schools It is called: EnTeEf: “Enabling Teachers’ Effectiveness “ in classrooms. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. www.enteef.com.

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India Education Software Learning 104

Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2020

Zoos, aquariums, museums and gardens can look at their online ticket sales process. Look for ways to build out door activities into your camp programs , like nature walks and outdoor classroom formats. . . Spread out entrance times and limit the number of people you let in . Consider making a big deal about your reopening.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2017

My organization, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), is in the home stretch of a major expansion project. This is not your typical museum expansion. No new classrooms. Instead, we're spending five million dollars to take our museum outside. I love the sound of jackhammers in the morning.

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Public Museum History Classroom 26

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

They were planning a wall mural for our classroom. It turned into a pretty wild evening in the classroom, filled with, "Whoa! Two weeks ago, two of my staff members came to me with a problem. Visitors rose to the challenge and made some incredible drawings. You drew that?!"s,

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Imagine asking a question and being able to experience the answer in 3D or, using augmented reality to let an archaeology student participate in a dig in the classroom. Guru is also sponsoring the arts and cultural reception on October 17th from 8:00 to 10:00pm ET, at the Museum of Industry. Don’t miss out on bbcon 2017.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

From effecting change at the policy level to funding individual classroom improvements, mobile fundraising runs the gamut of usefulness for educational nonprofits. #6. The next time you go to the symphony or visit an art museum in your nearest metropolitan area, be sure to check out their mobile giving options. Environmental awareness.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. A SIMPLE WAY TO TRY IT This week, we experimented with visioning at my museum in an all-staff meeting. A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future."

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. Endowed by Dr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. Endowed by Dr.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Moreover, the iPad will likely prove a good platform for developing kiosks in public spaces like museums, or even your organization's lobby. 4) Training Tool: Educators and trainers are already incorporating new technology into the classroom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. 5) Online classes. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

In the museum world, we often talk about lowering barriers to entry, helping people get through the door. And so today we look at an educational facility (not a museum) that swabs the deck with these barriers. Instead of classrooms or mission statements, first time visitors enter 826 Valencia through the storefront Pirate Supply Store.

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Education Museum Audience Design 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

For example, right now, Temple Contemporary's offices are packed floor to ceiling with broken musical instruments from classrooms across the city of Philadelphia. The advisors share their questions, vote on the ones that they think have the most power, and set the direction of Temple Contemporary.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. After offering up these four keys, Doron energizes the classroom with a challenge. And they turn their lives around. But on day one of recruiting at Pajaro Valley High School, it is not obvious this will happen.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

In order for physical media to remain relevant, institutions like libraries and museums have to start looking at the inclusive and collaborative community-building models present in digital media culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms. These sites are well worth exploring for the richness of learning about the application of emerging technologies and learning.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. with sharpies.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

But this job is really important to the future of our museum, and I’m hoping that you or someone you know might be a great fit for it. We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Many museums are experimenting with “back channel” platforms that allow visitors and staff to chat and share content while onsite at the museum. It felt like something we could use at my museum as a step to get people more comfortable with Twitter and other back channels.” The back channel isn’t just a social space.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

Who is visiting your museum? Then going to a classroom to do a presentation might get kids excited about your organization. If you’re a museum, blog about your exhibits, the excited kids from a recent field trip, or what a sister museum is doing. The easiest way to identify your “target constituent” is to look around you.

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Museum Social Media Classroom eBook 38

Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

Who is visiting your museum? Then going to a classroom to do a presentation might get kids excited about your organization. If you’re a museum, blog about your exhibits, the excited kids from a recent field trip, or what a sister museum is doing. The easiest way to identify your “target constituent” is to look around you.

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Museum Classroom eBook Social Media 30

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2009

We talked about the atmosphere in our offices, classrooms, and homes. When museums and theaters try similarly to create a back-channel digital feeds for live events, the content and impact is heavily determined by the (relatively small) number of participants who actually use the platforms as creators and as spectators.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Every museum has a number for its operating cost per visitor. Most museums don't strategically set this number--too many operating costs are fixed by building needs--but they can use it to assess how expensive each visitor interaction is and evaluate the efficacy of programs. So where do online initiatives fit in?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Was it a museum professional or an outsider? I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Contrasting that rich human narrative with the kind of gleamy tweaky technology narrative that was emerging from the NISE-NET meeting made me realize that generally speaking, science museums ignore many of the aspects of life that are the most resonant--mortality, sex, humor, tragedy, pity, joy. So we had the key players.

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