Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Intergenerational Museum NSF Facilitation 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2007

The director of the NSF has gone so far as to say that it will "usher in a technological age that dwarfs everything we have yet experienced in its sheer scope and power." The table of contents can be found here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. One thing you''ll notice when you walk in is a ton of user-generated content. The interest is there.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? So if NSF is funding it, is it only for science exhibitions? Why is that?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. Most of the incentives on sites for tagging are related to increased functionality (better organization of my sites on del.icio.us) or increased visibility (more searchable content). You look at this picture.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Yes, it is possible for someone to reveal private information on a public comment board, but the number of community eyes on each board means that that kind of content can be seen publicly and addressed quickly. Inappropriate Content: Debatable. Let's look at #3--the promotion and featuring of content.

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