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Locating learning seminar presentations
Posted 1 month agoIf you look down the side of the screen you will find a list of pages for this blog. One of these http://maeg.textdriven.com/?page_id=149 has the presentations from the Melbourne seminar. Ont he page you will find links to people’s slide presentations, while on attached pages you will find any papers pasted. Hopefully this will make the process [...] -
Learning Opportunities - A Tassie perspective
Posted 1 month agoWell what a fantastic conference this proved to be. The wealth of innovative and creative projects going on around the country is truly inspiring. And the research that points out some of the future directions that our ‘industry’ is going in is equally revealing. I think the short sharp nature of the program gave [...] -
Lynda Kelly on the learning in museums
Posted 2 months agoLynda Kelly, who presented at the third day of the recent Melbourne symposium, has posted her thoughts on the presentations from the morning. If anyone else has some comments feel free to make them here. -
Learning Opportunities Seminar Snapshot
Posted 2 months agoLearning Opportunities Seminar - Key issues Onsite, Offsite, Online & Events Melbourrne 15-17 September 2008 presented by envi -education network victoria in partnership with Museums Australia (Victoria) 5 host museums: City Museum at Old Treasury Melbourne Museum State Library of Victoria Australian Centre for the Moving Image National Gallery of Victoria 8 Site Visits: Heide Museum of Modern Art [...] -
A Depression story in the National Archives
Posted 4 months agoThis post is an excerpt from a paper I’m writing about findability of National Archives of Australia collection items for the 2008 Australian Society of Archivists conference. The idea is that anyone’s description of a record could be put to work in the service of findability. So the following is an example of a description, [...] -
envi explores new ground at the National Sports Museum
Posted 5 months agoPatrick Watt, Manager of Education and Public Programs welcomed colleagues to the National Sports Museum on Wednesday 18 June. The evening began with a walk through the recently opened galleries followed by refreshments. With seating overlooking the MCG members of envi and museum colleagues gathered to listen to speakers “Exploring New Ground”. Ian Watts, convenor [...] -
Canadian museum educator seeks ideas
Posted 7 months agoWhat built heritage experiences have you had? Below is a query from a museum educator in Nova Scotia. Built heritage experiences I am looking for examples of visitor experiences that you may have seen, participated in or created around the topic of ‘built heritage’. An example might be guided walks. Near the end of April I will be [...] -
Teaching the teachers about Australian History
Posted 7 months agoFrom 13 to 23 Jan 2008 the Australian National University, National Archives of Australia, Old Parliament House, National Museum of Australia and Australian War Memorial hosted 120 primary and secondary History teachers from across Australia. An initiative of the Australian Government, the Australian History teachers’ summer school provided a 10 day intensive program packed with [...] -
People Learning in Museums: then and now
Posted 8 months agoOn Tuesday 12 February envi (MA education network Victoria) met at the State Library of Victoria for a General Meeting. Our group was joined by colleagues from many Melbourne museums for a presentation about ‘People Learning in Museums’. The speakers were Kathleen Fennessy, author of the recently published ‘A People Learning: colonial Victorians and their public museums, [...] -
A planning tool for developing teaching and learning programs and resources
Posted 8 months agoOutreach Education is comprised of 10 Education officers based in cultural organisations in Adelaide. It is an organisation funded by the state Department of Education and Children’s Services (DECS). Check out the Outreach Education website. Because we are a team integrated across a number of institutions, the entire collection of learning programs is [...] -
Museum Education and Social Media: 10 points from the conference
Posted 8 months agoI was at the social media and Cultural communication conference last Friday which looked at the way the latest developments in internet interactivity (called web 2.0) could be used to enhance the reach and impact of museums. So here are 10 of the more salient points I took. Kevin von Appen, Ontario Science Centre, gave [...] -
A climate change web 2.0 idea
Posted 11 months agoThe Aus Pacific Network of Science Centres and Questacon have created a tool for sharing your climate change observations and stories. Using a Google map to locate people you can watch videos, see images and text describing people’s initiatives to reduce their climate impacts. I know the Powerhouse is trialling a mapping tool for people [...] -
Beyond Museum Walls
Posted 1 year agoenvi (education network Victoria) in association with mavic presented a program at the Postmaster Gallery on Tuesday 20 November - Beyond Museum Walls. The focus of this event was self education: internships, scholarships, fellowships and mentorships. Participants were invited to find out about a range of opportunities for further development in the museum sector. Museum professionals who [...] -
Objects are not just in museums
Posted 1 year agoWhile scouring the world of the web for inspiration for my next project I found a great post about using objects to analyse a cultural context. The activity was run at St Jude’s school in Tanzania by an education consultant training teachers there to be better. Read the discussion here. It is fascinating to [...]