MOOCs and Museums
Video by Dave Cormier, coiner of the term “MOOC”. I just participated in my first Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) – the University of Edinburgh’s E-Learning and Digital Culture. While the content...
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Top 6 Lessons from the 6th Museums & Mobile Conference
Guest Post by Dana Allen-Greil If you don’t know Dana Allen-Greil, you should. Her blog, Engaging Museums, where this post first appeared, is a treasure trove of great ideas about technology in...
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MW2013 reflections: MOOCs, museums and mistakes
Guest post by David Greenfield I met David Greenfield at a talk he did recently on MOOCs and Museums, fortuitously just as I was writing a post on the same topic. Formerly a staff member of the...
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Turning Up the Dial on Museum Education
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? from Michael Edson Michael Edson (@mpedson), web guru at the Smithsonian, posted this slideshare on February 27, 2013 for Social Media Week, a series of...
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Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? from Michael Edson My first post looking at Michael Edson’s (@mpedson) wonderful slideshare Are Museums a Dial that Only Goes Up to 5? explored the...
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What Can Museum Educators Do for Museum Websites?
It was a comment by Marianna Adams in response to Mike Murawski’s latest post that set me to thinking: Museum websites, on the other hand, that are used by people before or after a museum visit, or...
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Serious Play = Serious Learning for Museums
The Heart of Serious Game Design as defined by the Games and Meaningful Play program at Michigan State University I just returned from the Serious Play conference in Redmond, Washington. It was a small...
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Discovering Mystic Seaport for Educators
Here’s a little insight into how things happen for a blogger. With my handy dandy google alert, I follow news with the keywords “museum education” and “museum education digital”. Every once in a while...
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Going Deep with ArtLens and Gallery One
Everyone has heard a lot about the Cleveland Museum of Art’s recent digital media projects, Gallery One and ArtLens. I chatted with a couple of members of their education and interpretation...
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The Value of Museum Selfies
I thought the culture wars were over. Didn’t you? A relic of the past when we believed that Art belonged in a temple where the elite could have “transformative” moments while quietly and waspishly...
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