- Examine the work of Jim Spadaccini and Open Exhibits
- Debate: Screens or no screens (before class you will be asked to take a position on screen interactives in exhibitions, we will divide and debate)
- Introduction of following weeks activity: Paper Prototyping a museum interactive
- Teams will assemble and present paper prototypes museum interactives using construction paper/glue/scissors/markers/glitter/whatever
12/5 Why Distance Learning
- (Tentative) Guest Speaker: William Crow Associate Museum Educator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Adjunct Professor of Graduate Media Studies at The New School for Social Research and the John Hopkins on-line museum masters program
12/12 Final Projects Due/Class presentations
12/19 All Work turned in
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- Explore may facets of technology and museums
- Enage in discussions and collabarorations of technology and museums
- Prototype ideas/designs about of technology and museums
- Explore how technology and “the digital age” is changing how we think, act and practice as museum professionals
Course Details Quarter 1
Session 1: (Monday, 8/29 6:15-8:25pm) Analog, Digital, who cares? Technology is just tool, a dynamic tool yes, but still one of many in the box.
Greetings and Introductions (Ourselves & Our ideas in 140 Characters or less)
Hack the Dance
Technology in our lives
Future Museums
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2011/06/next-era-of-education-will-bewhat.html
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/2011/08/landing-job-in-museum-of-future.html
Course details and discussion
Assignments for next session:
Via email invite log-in to the Digitally Connected course blog. Create profile and craft “About Me” blog entry (medium/media your call.)
Read George Siemens’ Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm and and write a summary/response/reflection as a blog post on the Digitally Connected blog. Please also read and reflect on your classmates posts. Conversation is good! (All postings by need to be submitted by 11pm Wednesday 9/7)
Choose second Siemens’ article on http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/index.htm and and write 140 character summary as a “status update” on Digitally Connected blog (the blog). Feel free to interact.
Read preface from Simon’s The Participatory Museum
Monday, 9/6 No Class: Labor Day
Session 2: (Monday, 9/12 6:15-8:25pm) Connectivism, a Learning theory for the 21st Century?
Reading: George Siemens’ Connectivism: A Learning Theory for a Digital Age; Second Siemens article of student’s choosing.
How do learning theories inform us as museum professionals?
Discussion of main article
Crowd sourcing Siemens
How can we build a Personal/Professional Learning Network (PLN) with this course and the blog?
Applications in Museums: 21st Century skills or just good ole’ common sense?
Intro to Nina Simon book
Assignments for next session:
Share a at least 3 resources (with links) that are relevant to you as emerging museum professional with short annotations/explenations on the blog as a post.
Read Chapters 1 through 5 in Simon. Will post open thread on blog for discussion.
Follow a resource path Simon provides and investigate the highlighted project/resource. Please post which one you investigated with links, share something about it. Use the Simon thread on the blog, post as a comment on that thread.
Suggested reading, Sketching a Future for Brooklyn Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/arts/design/08museum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=brooklyn%20museum&st=cse We will be reading this in class on 9/19, but you may want to prepare by reading once previous to session 3.
Suggested: Visit the Brooklyn Museum, or explore their various online spaces http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
Session 3: (Monday, 9/19 6:15-8:25pm) The Participatory Museum: Applying a Social Web schema to museums
Readings: Simon The Participatory Museum chapters 1-5
Assignment report out
Simon Discussion
Socratic Seminar: Sketching a Future for Brooklyn Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/arts/design/08museum.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=brooklyn%20museum&st=cse
Reflection
Assignments for next session:
One-page exhibit redesign concept. Take a current exhibit, exhibition or museum program and redesign it to include the types of participation methods Simon discusses in her book. Post on the blog 9/26.
Finish Simon
Post reflection document about your thoughts reflecting on The Participatory Museum
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