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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms?

Survey 20
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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests. This is the most novel sharing tool I've seen on any social network. but still, a programming environment.