Thinking about Numbers: Playing with the IMLS Data Set
IMLS timed their release of the data on the numbers of museums well. It came just as thousands of museum professionals were playing hooky from their day jobs in sunny Seattle. The numbers sparks a few interesting cocktail conversations, certainly. And, for the number nerds, it was fun to play with on the long planes …
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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 to Share the Museum Experience
Vine can be used as a way to get your audience to share or a way to share what your audience is doing. My previous post sets the foundation for my ideas about getting your audience to share. I would only punctuate those ideas with some notes about content. First, let’s meditate on the word …
The Right Audience for Vine
The interface of vine is strangely equalizing in its startling simplicity. You just touch the screen—there isn’t even a button. Anyone who has accessed the app can touch the screen. After all, that is how they got into the app. This simplicity has its problems. You look at the screen and wonder—what do I do? …
Museum Games: Dishes Best Served to Order
The tinkling, jingling bells of the approaching ice cream truck awaken something in the soul of my oldest daughter. My other daughter squeals with delight at broccoli. Whatever floats your boat? Right? Recently, at AAM, there was a long discussion about if museum games can have spinach in the cookies? Similarly at the …
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AAM 2012 Recap
Rather than create a play by play recap of the annual conference, this post highlights broad strokes of the event. On Museums: Museums are holder of the public good. Programs should showcase public value. Museums should create memories for visitors. Museums are community based and community responsive. They are public utilities. Museums serve 55 million …