http://museumblogging.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:38:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This blog has gone too long without any new posts. It's not that I haven't been thinking about museums--far from it. But I have been thinking about museums from outside museums, from affiliated--or potentially affiliated--institutions rather than as a practitioner within the museum field. In my ideal job, I ... http://museumblogging.com/2008/08/12/the-museum-is-not-a-classroom/ (Cross-posted at BlogHer) I know this content of this post isn't news for the museum professionals who read this blog, but I get some search traffic from people looking for more general information about museum-going. This post is meant for them. :) Did you know that during conversations they have ... http://museumblogging.com/2008/06/22/10-tips-for-visiting-museums-with-girls/ My apologies for all the broken links and images on the blog. A month ago I switched over to a new blog host, and I didn't realize so many links would break. I've decided to move this blog to the WordPress platform. Welcome, and please pardon the dust--and weird ... http://museumblogging.com/2008/04/18/upgrades-in-progress/ Today subscribers to the listserv H-PUBLIC received the following invitation. Read all the way to the end to see how you can join in what proves to be an interesting discussion!FORUM: What difference can museums make by engaging the public in civic dialogue?This is a second question around the ... http://museumblogging.com/2008/04/10/another-forum-on-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 ... http://museumblogging.com/2008/03/11/museums-and-civic-discourse/ These days, it seems everyone is going gaga over Twitter, a microblogging platform that functions in many ways as a customizable group instant messaging client.If you've never seen Twitter, when you first visit the site, you may be overwhelmed by all the junk--in so many languages--on the home page. ... http://museumblogging.com/2008/02/14/10-lessons-museums-can-learn-from-twitter/ I'm switching web hosts, so you may see some glitches here. Rest assured that we'll be back at museumblogging.com within the next week or two.Update: It appears images from older posts didn't come along for the ride to the new host. I'll be gradually finding and re-uploading these ... http://museumblogging.com/2008/01/23/please-pardon-our-dust/ I spent a good chunk of this afternoon in my local FedEx-Kinko's copy shop, copying articles and chapters for my reader for the museum history and theory course I'm teaching this fall. While most customers were in the copy shop for 10-15 minutes, I was there for nearly an ... http://museumblogging.com/2007/09/11/what-i-learned-about-museum-exhibits-in-the-self-service-copy-shop/ In my former job as an educational technologist, we talked quite a bit about how best to reach faculty who were too busy (or reluctant) to use technologies that might genuinely prove useful to them or their students. Eventually, we figured out that faculty don't want to hear about ... http://museumblogging.com/2007/09/07/just-in-time-learning/ If you haven't seen it, you must--now--go read Jacki Thompson Rand's article "Why I Can't Visit the National Museum of the American Indian: Reflections of an accidental privileged insider, 1989-1994."I was a student of Jacki's several years ago. Her course "Museum Literacy and Historical Memory" at the University of ... http://museumblogging.com/2007/07/12/excellent-article-by-jacki-rand/