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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

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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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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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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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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but still, a programming environment. Again, the ScratchR team is promoting use of Scratch and community-building around the programming environment. It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. Does it work?