The Near-Future of Museum Education for K-12 Audiences
This afternoon I had the privilege of participating in the North Carolina Museum of Art’s project, #NCMAAsk (search twitter for more), which is focused on museums, technology, and the future. There were a number of issues that came up, but, many of them centered around hearing, listening, and flexibility. Museums in their partnership with …
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How do you actually make a game?
Designing a game? Well, there are many ways to start, but, in essence, you want to think about some big issues: 1. What is your goal? What do you want your players to get out of it? What is your project goal? How does it relate to your game goal? 2. Where are you going …
Vine Interface–An Orientation
Vine offers a clean interface, but that might mean you need a little extra orientation to get started. _____________ My vines can be found here. I have written a series of short posts about Vine. Enjoy: Vine Video for Museums: Post 1 How can Museum Educators use Vine? The Right Audience for Vine Fostering Participation …
Stop Motion Tips
I love anthropomorphizing things. Dancing bananas, singing teapots, talking shoes… So, this lifelong love is my excuse for loving the stop motion culture of Vines. I love the idea of potatoes up and becoming stamps without any human intervention. Or the fact that magic helped you make a silkscreen with drawing fluid. Stop motion needs …
Vine and Audio
In my mind, Vine is primarily visual. But, how can text, audio, and sound be included? Sound and Audio: You might be like me, and just accept ambient audio. In some instances, there is nothing you can do. Often, talking just becomes noise, particularly in stop motion compromised of many shots. Sound, such as waves …
How can Museum Educators use Vine?
Interpretation is about sharing but also listening. Museum interpreters are information chefs. They take raw content, say scholarship, and then make something palatable out of it. After serving their delicacies, they listen for the feedback of the consumers. Using this feedback, they might refine their recipes. Social media allows visitors to make the interpretation about …
Fostering Participation in Vines
Vine, being used through the phone, is a non-threatening way to create videos of visitors and participants. Most people are used to being in cell phone photographs, so it doesn’t bring out the nerves that a traditional camera might. But, even with that familiarity, including others still takes a little work. First, talk through the …
Vine Basics
What does Vine do? I am amazed by the multiplicity of answers to this question–in the form of videos posted by Vine users every day. Most importantly, Vine is a visual medium. It needs to reflect your aesthetic, or at the least, you should feel it looks good. While it uses sound, the sound is …
The Continuum of Craft and Creative Expressions
I need to get a number of confessions out. I love crafting. I self-classify as a crafter. I even have a blog about crafting with kids, Art Play Space. And, I don’t think functional art, often classified as craft, is neither fine nor art. All that said, there is a class of things that museum …
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Vine on Your Own
In museums interpretation could be classified: being enacted by a staff intercessor, say in a program, or placed for audience consumption without a staff-member present, like a label. In both instances, great care is given to have the audience reacts. But, it in former, the staff member has the luxury of being able to tack, …