Strumming Along with Jake Shimabukuro
Usually I write about museums and technology, but had a great experience yesterday in a class with ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro, and wanted to jot down a few notes. And maybe by the end wrap that...
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Interactivity 2014: Museums as Playgrounds for Adults
It’s the morning after one of the great evening museum events at the ACM Interactivity conference — at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix — and the phrase that comes to mind is: “museums as playgrounds...
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Places that Matter: Whim Museum on St. Croix, Virgin Islands
This week I’ve been doing community storytelling popup exhibits with Whim Museum during their annual “Come Home to St. Croix” celebration of culture, history, and family. Special programs included...
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An invitation: Museum Haiku Group
Remember back when you were in grade school and wrote haiku? The old 5-7-5 syllable form from Japan about nature? Here’s a chance to reconnect the synapses and try it out again, this time with a new...
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The Exhibit that Made Me Cry (and I tried to hide it)
I was reminded today by Susie Wilkening’s article on long-term memories of exhibits (in ASTC Dimensions) of an exhibit that made me cry. I tried to hide it, but there I was, huge lump in the throat,...
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Yesterday Mary Maher, editor of the Association of Children’s Museums publication Hand to Hand and I had a fun Hangout with Dan Spock, Director of the Minnesota History Center Museum and all around...
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ACM Interactivity 2016 Notes: Collective Impact
Just came back from the Association of Children’s Museum (ACM) annual conference — always a highlight of the conference year for me, the main national gathering of children’s museums. The overarching...
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Informal Learning Review: Popup Exhibits and the Distributed Museum
Great to see the article I wrote with Lynn Baum and Jan Crocker on popup exhibits out in the March/April issue of Informal Learning Review, the longstanding publication drawing together new research...
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When your software is featured on This American Life…
I had a fun experience last week, driving along listening the always engaging public radio show This American Life hosted by Ira Glass. As I was listening to the story, which featured a museum...
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This New Decade: the Future is Behind Us
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now (as in, nearly seven years) — about the luncheon presentation at the AAM museum conference where Jason Jay Stevens attacked me with a stick. He...
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