ARTICLES:
Connectivism
Siemens’ article on connectivisim
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Additional Siemens’ articles
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/index.htm
“Connectivism” based ideas about addressing job crisis from LinkedIn CEO
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/08/how-to-solve-the-other-unemployment-crisis/?iid=A_T_News
Archiving Thoughts – Museums, the Internet & the Nature of Knowledge (relates to Seimens’ article)
Other
5 Mind Blowing Things Crowds Do Better Than Experts (Comedic tangent to Simon’s crowdsourcing discussions)
http://www.cracked.com/article_19431_5-mind-blowing-things-crowds-do-better-than-experts.html
5 Ways Museums are Reaching Digital Audiences (includes 5 museum you can visit without leaving your computer)
http://mashable.com/2011/08/11/museums-digital/
12 Most Annoying Types of Facebookers
Barnes Foundation – Outsmarting Albert Barnes
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/article.asp?article=1686
Happy ending, Partly, In a 13-Year-Old Theft in Bolivia
http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2011/09/bolivia-colonial-theft-recover.html
Helping the Modern Get Over Itself (About exhibition tendencies of MOMA)
IPhone App Brings Roman London to Life (Interesting prospect for adding immersion to any museum)
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/07/29/roman.london.app/index.html?iref=allsearch
Kansas Museum to Feature Virtual Storyteller (Performance programming like Simon mentions)
http://cjonline.com/news/state/2011-01-17/kansas-museum-feature-virtual-storyteller#.TnUiyE9fuiI
http://www.askinteractive.tv/posts/2011/1/26/video_introducing_ask_museum_storytelling
Nat’l Gallery Visitor Attacks Paintings – (Example of the wrong types of participation)
http://mobile.dcist.com/2011/08/gauguin_attacker_strikes_again.php
New Museums in the Middle East – Interviews with famous architects who are building in Doha & Abu Dhabi
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/27/arts/design/museums.html#nouvel
New Report Published on Engagement in Museums & Galleries (Failed museum participation)
http://www.phf.org.uk/news.asp?id=1418
Recent Art Thefts in North America
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/media/gallery/Recent-art-thefts-in-North-America/24422
Science Museums Are Failing Grown-Ups
Struggling Museum Now Allowing Patrons to Touch Paintings (Humorous FAKE article from The Onion)
http://www.theonion.com/articles/struggling-museum-now-allowing-patrons-to-touch-pa,2821/
To Charge or What to Charge (On museums increasing admissions and suggested donations & related article)
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/To-charge-or-what-to-charge?/24451
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/New-York-s-great-museums-could-do-better/24509
Too Rude To show? Facebook’s Nudity ban Often Falls Afoul of Art Groups
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Too-rude-to-show?/24494
Why the Frick Rocks for College Students (About free college night)
http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2011/09/why-the-frick-rocks.html
LINKS:
Nina Simon – Resource Paths
“Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition” – Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/gallery.php
Free2Choose at the Anne Frank Museum
http://www.annefrank.org/en/Museum/Exhibitions/Free2choose/
Human Library
http://humanlibrary.org/assets/files/guides/Living%20Lib%20Organisers%20Guide.pdf
http://humanlibrary.org/downloads.html
I Like Museums
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/yourcollection/
Interactive Exhibits -Chapter 3, Ontario Science Center’s exhibit, Facing Mars
http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/facingmars/exhibit.htm
Mining the Museum – Fred Wilson
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wilson/#
http://www2.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=3876
Netflix and creating rating/recommendations systems with algorithms
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/netflix2.htm
http://blog.netflix.com/2011/09/explanation-and-some-reflections.html
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/netflix
Object-Rich Theatre at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/themuseum/powerofchildren/html/index.html
Odditoreum – Powerhouse Museum
http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/whatson/odditoreum.php
http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum_photography/sets/72157621891871473/
Our Green Trail
Pandora
Post Secret
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2007/04/postsecret-lessons-in-meaningful-user.html
1000 Awesome Things (similar idea to Post Secret in that it is user-generated content)
StumbleUpon (as relates to Pandora/Netflix and user-generated rating and selection) – Random webpage generator
World Without Oil Game – Ch. 4
http://worldwithoutoil.org/default.aspx?showall=true#end
Real life application of a game that used a crowd to solve a complex problem. (Relates to World Without Oil)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/19/aids-protein-decoded-gamers_n_970113.html
Brooklyn Museum Discussion
Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
Skateboarding Exhibition at the Smithsonian Vs. Star Wars at Brooklyn
http://www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/rampItUp/index.htm
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
St. Pete Museum of History traveling exhibition – Wizard of Oz
http://www.spmoh.org/wizard_of_oz_1.html
Other
3 Commandments for the Next Online Content Leaders (talks of technology and positions of authority)
http://mashable.com/2011/09/13/content-creation-rules/?Campaign
AAM – Emerging Museum Professionals (Networking site for upcoming museum professionals, THAT’S US!)
http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/emp/index.cfm
AAM – Resources for dealing with stolen/misplaced/ misappropriated art during the Nazi-Era
http://voyager.shu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=354&recCount=50&recPointer=8&bibId=29012
Art In Odd Places – Festival in NYC
Art Newspaper
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/
ArtsJournal – Arts, Culture, Ideas
Aviso – AAM’s job-posting site
http://www.aam-us.org/aviso/index.cfm
Badge Systems for Education
http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/open-badges-launch-rocket-fuel-reaction-and-resources/
Bank of America’s Museum Program
http://museums.bankofamerica.com/
Barnes Foundation & Movie “The Art of the Steal) – Looks at the changing nature of the modern museum
http://www.barnesfoundation.org/#
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1326733/
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/article.asp?article=1686
Conserve O’ Gram (NPS leaflets about registration and collections management)
http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html
Creation Museum
Cultural Access Network of New Jersey (provides resources in accessibility to arts and culture institutions)
http://culturalaccessnetwork.org/about/
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
Dead Sea Scrolls Digitization
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html
Fake Smithsonian Historically Hardcore advertising campaign
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/03/21/fake-smithsonian-ads-historically-hardcore-photos/
Freer Sackler Museum Website – In the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art, D.C.
http://www.asia.si.edu/research/curatorial/currentResearch.asp
Game – Science Museum of London’s Launch Ball
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/launchpad/launchball/
Game – National Media Museum’s Media Mayhem
http://mediamayhem.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/
Gizmodo – Technology Review with helpful articles
How Technology is Change the Museum Experience
http://mashable.com/2011/09/14/high-tech-museums/
ICOM (International Council of Museums, includes webpage about Cultural Tourism)
http://icom.museum/what-we-do/programmes/cultural-tourism.html
Idealist (Excellent job search site for non-profit orgs)
Informal Science (Contains posts about informal science learning in institutions)
Instagram (Photo sharing website for the IPhone)
Jason Project – Organization promotes the use of science & education to promote reconnecting with nature
http://www.jason.org/public/whatis/start.aspx
Let’s Move! (Initiative to get Museums & Gardens involved in the cause against childhood obesity)
http://www.imls.gov/about/lets_move_projects.aspx
Maker Faire
http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2011/
http://brooklynimbecile.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/2011-maker-faire-this-weekend-in-queens/
http://makerfaire.com/newyork/2011/
Metropolitan Museum of Art – NEW WEBSITE and RESOURCES
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
Mused for Iphone App – Helps you find museums nearby
Museum Ed – (Had various resources for Museum Education)
Museum L – Listerv
http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MUSEUM-L
Museum of Interesting Things (Curator Denny Daniel was at Maker Faire 2011)
Museum of Me – Create and explore a visual archive of your social life (is this like a real museum?)
http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm
National Constitution Center Exhibition “Spies, Traitors & Saboteurs” (Similar to Simon’s Poll example)
http://constitutioncenter.org/ncc_exhbt_Spies_Traitors_Saboteurs.aspx
National Preservation Society (Seminar in Cemetery Preservation and more)
http://www.npi.org/sem-cemet.html
New Mexico Association of Museums – (Has resources for collection care, exhibition material sources, etc.)
http://www.nmmuseums.org/museum-resources.html
Open Directory Project – Museums (Categories with sites and resources about museums)
http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Museums/
Pace Gallery – Social Media Exhibition
http://www.pacemacgill.com/show_installation.php?item=100
http://www.briangresko.com/blog/?p=184
RCAAM Listserv – Registrar’s Commitee of AAM
Richard Louv – author who explore “Nature Deficit”, promotes reconnecting with nature
September 11: Teaching Contemporary History (Smithsonian conference postings online)
http://smithsonianconference.org/september11/program/
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Includes a page related to issues with art in Nazi Germany)
http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/highlights/bryan/video/detail.php?content=germany_art
What’s That Bug? (Help for identifying critters having lunch in our exhibitions)
BLOGS:
Center for the Future of Museums – AAM
http://futureofmuseums.blogspot.com/
Colleen Dilen – Know Your Bone (On non-profits & engaging communities through social media)
Electronic Museum – Musings about electronic culture
http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/
Exhibit Files (Community blog for exhibition designers and developers)
http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/
George Siemens – ELearnSpace
http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/
Herbert Art Museum & Gallery
Hive @ World Maker Faire
MadaMuseo – Pam Schwartz’s personal/professional blog
http://madamuseo.wordpress.com/
Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums
http://www.midatlanticmuseums.org/blog/
Mused – Blog for the Iphone App
Muse-ologist – exhibition news & reviews
http://muse-ologist.tumblr.com/
Museos Unite (Uniting museums professionals – outdated, but good archives)
http://museosunite.blogspot.com/
Nina Simon – Museum 2.0 (Author of our text)
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/
Prerogative of Harlots – About museum and collections, and a little paleontology
http://paleocoll.blogspot.com/
Post Secret (related to Nina Simon’s Resource Paths)
Power House Museums (Science & Design Museum in Sydney, Australia)
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/
Sustainable Museums – Sarah Brophy, a primer on environmental practice in museums
http://sustainablemuseums.blogspot.com/
Thinking About Exhibits (Interesting ideas and thoughts on exhibitions)
http://exhibitdev.wordpress.com/
Young Museums Professionals (outdated, but great archives)
http://youngmuseumprofessionals.blogspot.com/
1000 Awesome Things (similar to Post Secret from Nina Simon’s Resource Paths)
VIDEOS:
10 Bizarre Museums
Let’s Move! (Initiative to get Museums & Gardens involved in the cause against childhood obesity)
Museum of Obsolete Objects
http://www.youtube.com/mooojvm
Museum of Me – Intel
Museum of Interesting Things: Denny Daniel (was at the 2011 Maker Faire)
NuV-Host – Fully Interactive Virtual Mannequin (Maybe this isn’t too far in the future?)
Pinky Show on Museums
Preparing Art to Go On Loan: Jan Gossaert’s Self-Portrait (Shows process of loaning out an artifact)
Stephen Colbert’s Attempt to Get His Portrait in the Smithsonian
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/147381/january-10-2008/national-treasure-pt–1
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/147444/january-14-2008/national-treasure-pt–2
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/147627/january-15-2008/national-treasure-pt–3
TWITTER HANDLES TO FOLLOW:
Chris Larry (that’s our prof!) @chrislarry33
George Siemens @gsiemens
Pam Schwartz (Classmate) @MadaMuseo
Maker Faire @MakerFaire
Nina Simon @ninksimon
Center for the Future of Museums (AAM) @futureofmuseums
AAM @AAMers
Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums @midatlanticmuse
Smithsonian @smithsonian
BOOKS:
“The Digital Museum: A Think Guide” Edited by: Herminia Din and Phyllis Hecht and introduction by: Selma Thomas, ISBN: 978-1-933253-09-1
Impacts of technology in museums today, evaluates different sectors of the museum and responses
“Displays of Power: Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation” by Steven Dubin
Discusses various museum controversies in the media
“A Graveyard Preservation Primer” Lynette Strangstad, American Association of State & Local History, 1995
Provides info on accessing a tombstone’s condition and proper cleaning techniques
“Making Museums Matter” Stephen Weil, Smithsonian Books, 2002
Essays discussing the museums’ role in preserving and displaying its collections to the public
“Museum Registration Methods” 5th editions, Rebecca A. Buck
The holy grail for registrars
“The New Museum” John Cotton Dana
Explains the theory behind Dana’s use of museums acting as servants to their community
“The Politics of Education” Paulo Freire
Shares ideas of how to get education out of the classroom & using it as liberation
“Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift” by Gail Anderson
Discusses paradigm shift in museums and how we need to respond
“Unbound by Place or Time: Museums and Online Learning” By: William B. Crow and Herminia Din, ISBN: 978-1-933253-12-1
Online learning in museums and expanding interactions with visitors
“The Virtual and the Real: Media in the Museum” Edited by: Ann Mintz and Selma Thomas, ISBN: 978-0931201-51-6
Experts discuss the philosophy, use and misuse of media and computer technology in museums
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