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UMA Conference October 22, 2009 - Green River, UT
Perpetual Protoyping: Integrating Events, Visitors, and Educational Programs into the Exhibition Development Process
If we accept people's tendency to learn what they want to learn when they wanted to learn it, as Frank Oppenheimer did with the Exploratorium, we discover what we create for the visitor may not always be how they end up using it. By accepting that notion, we need to accommodate the visitor's natural curiosity in our exhibit and program design.
As Thanksgiving Point Programming evolves through time, we are implementing an underlying pedagogy of family inquiry into all of our exhibitions, educational programs, and events to help meet our mission of hands-on discovery for all ages. Ideally the integration of these departments will takes us down a road where all that we create comes from the experiences and interactions of our visitors. In this session, we'll share stories, exhibits, and program ideas from our first year after implementing a new approach for developing exhibits and programs. We'll walk through our evolving prototyping process. Share stories about discoveries we've made by creating an exhibition hall where the public is directly connected to the development process and talk about the important role public events has played in helping us gain informal feedback from visitors with broad backgrounds-many of who may not be regular museum-goers.
Objectives:
• To engage in a discussion about engaging the visitor in the exhibition development process.
• To discuss the importance of collaboration between exhibition staff, education staff and the visitor.
• To share personal stories of our experiences after a year of implementing a new philosophy of perpetual prototyping.
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Fossils and Catastrophes - Middle School Earth Science
Learn about the Earth's catastrophic past through a series of inexpensive inquiry-based activities. Bring back to your classroom a series of hands-on earth science activities to explore faulting and folding, plate tectonics, process of paleontology and discover how fossils shape our understanding of the past. This workshop will build and focus on inquiry-based learning using inexpensive hands-on activities to take students through the process of science.
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Digitization Basics and Web 2.0
Utah Museum Association Conference, October 2008, Co-Presenter
The Web: It's Not Just for Masters Anymore
Utah Museum Association Conference, October 2005, Co-Presenter
Exploratorium NCLB Teacher Quality CSET Test Prep Seminar
Association of Science Technology Conference, October 2005, Panel Presenter
Supporting New Science Teachers
American Association of Museum Conference - EdCom Marketplace of Ideas Poster, May 2004,
Co-presenter
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