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Teacher friendly metadata underlies Texan database
Susan Clarke, Rachel Galan are giving a briefing on Texas Tides: Digital Learning Consortium. This is a platform for collaborative retelling of Texan history. It is described as having two sides: a website designed specifically for K12 teaching; and a searchable database of 16,000 digital resources. Is as much an education project as an archives […]
Museums and Web2 in France
October 25, 2007
Gaëlle Crenn gave a talk on the potential of Web2.0 on museums, primarily in cultural institutions in France. They examined how this new multimedia will transform the interaction between users and institutions. Several US museums were seen as exemplars eg: Brooklyn Museum website (see museum blog, community, digital (and real) graffiti walls, personalised comments and […]
Adaptive processes to promote social interaction in museums
October 25, 2007
Karen Tanenbaum and Kevin Muise are presenting a very good paper on adaptive processes for guides working with families to promote social interaction (link). They undertook an ethnographic study of families visiting museums (primarily natural history) and then identified three challenges (opportunities surely) and developed 2-axis taxonomies for each of these which they applied to […]
Multiple perspectives for collective sharing
October 25, 2007
In a ICHIM07 session entitled “In-Museum engagement” Liam Bannon and Palmyre Pierroux are presenting MUSTEL: Framing the Design of Technology-Enhanced Learning Activities for Museum Visitors. This is part of a kaleidoscope project about technology enhanced learning. Liam is talking about the need for a multitude of perspectives: technology exploration; collaborative learning; exhibition design etc. But […]
Digital information making history first person singular
October 25, 2007
Ian Wilson is the Librarian and Archivist of Canada. His talk is “To hold infinity in the palm of your hand” (from William Blake). The talk is about the opportunity and challenges of internet and search engine (eg google). The challenge is primarily one of stewardship and the relationship with business models. He says that […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 25, 2007
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