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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

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This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. The collective outcome (a cool music video) is clear.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

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On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

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You can combine clips, cut clips, add a title or music. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Tags: FLIP. The most skill to teach novice users I think is shooting tips and how to moment capture or only shoot footage that requires minimal editing. Editing Software.

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Psst. Want an Internship?

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I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. It could be a tag-team art/history lecture series. This one is wide open. It could be a game show. It could be an exhibit jam.

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Creative Profiling: Tools for Defining and Understanding Your Audience

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And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. With social media and participatory experiences, we shouldn't just focus our design efforts on what sounds cool or is easy to conceive. design participatory museum. Tags: web2.0

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Teenagers and Social Participation

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Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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And the winner is. and some reflections on user-generated content

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You can also tags. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. Music in video: Wonder Drums by porchcat That is important if you want to stream them with a tool like splashr.