Note: This is a revision of an earlier version of this post. As an adjunct professor in John F. Kennedy University’s graduate program in museum studies, professional development is frequently at the front of my mind. By “professional development,” I mean helping students and emerging museum professionals become more thoughtful museum thinkers and makers. I’m [...]
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Amy Clampitt meets Cal Academy
I went to the California Academy of Sciences one evening during the California Association of Museums conference, and as I was downloading the photos from the visit I was picking through The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt. The two streams began to merge for me, and I excerpted these fragments from the very long poem. [...]
Confluence, Context, and Community (Part I)
This past week I experienced one of those wonderful confluences of thought and experience that make me thankful for my tendency to snatch up whatever interesting opportunity that comes along, no matter how overcommitted I already may be. I spent Thursday evening through Saturday afternoon visiting my friend and colleague Barbara Ganley in Vermont, where [...]
Museums and Civic Discourse
Last Saturday, I was fortunate to attend the “Museums and Civic Discourse” symposium at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley. The room was packed with some West Coast and national leaders in the field–really some amazing women there (and a few men, too). The symposium sought to imagine what civic discourse in museums might look [...]
Web 2.0 and Museums, from Museums and the Web
Just catching up on my Museums & the Web notes. . . Please forgive the bullets. My comments are in italics. This session was a study in vast contrasts. I completely understand each institution’s approach to Web 2.0 technologies, but I must say the Smithsonian approach, while it may produce quality content, does not strike [...]
Designing a web site for young people, at Museums and the Web
Rough notes on this one. . . “Designing a web site for young people: the challenges of appealing to a diverse and fickle audience”Rose Cardiff, Tate Online – full paper online here User-generated content Potential issues: child protection law for children under age 16 in UK IPR and copyright cost and effort of moderating site [...]