NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

MAP for Nonprofits and Idealware collaborated on six months of research that began with a survey of 180 human service organizations in Minnesota. One small organization, for example, is using text messages to communicate with teens who participate in a mentoring program. Please share in the comments below.

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Service Technology Teen Map 77

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Teen Volunteer Create Design 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2015

Maybe you want to work with Hmong immigrants to Minnesota. Or Santa Cruz County teens who want to make social change. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here. But the community exists whether it is strong or weak. Or art-lovers of Brooklyn.

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Community Minnesota Teen Movie 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate.

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Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Consider the community reaction to the Science Museum of Minnesota's Science Buzz blog post about the Pakistani earthquake on Oct. Does Jamal's comment enrich the primarily Minnesotan readers of Science Buzz?

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20