Thanks to encouragement from Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn, Paula Bray has started uploading photos of some of the ‘visitor-generated labels‘ from our Odditoreum mini-exhibition.
The ‘write-your-own-labels’ continue to be a roaring success.
More on the Odditoreum here and on the basic info page.
Entries Tagged as 'Young people & museums'
Odditoreum visitor-written-labels now on Flickr
August 13th, 2009 Comments Off
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NMC Horizon.au Technology Report for Aus/NZ is released
December 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
Earlier this year the Horizon New Media Consortium convened in Australia to develop up a Horizon report specifically for the local education space.
The report, detailing six technologies in the education sector to watch, has been released.
Here’s a snippet – but I encourage you to read and then send around. Remember these are technologies that are [...]
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Light reading – two totally different audiences: researchers and young people
November 28th, 2008 Comments Off
Two interesting pieces of reading for those of you who have to spend time on public transport.
First from the Research Information Network in the UK comes a report that looks at the need of academic researchers in discovering the content of museum collections using online databases. Not surprisingly “their most important wish is that online [...]
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Teens, Games and Civics 2008 Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project / some implications for interactives in museums
September 17th, 2008 1 Comment
Another fascinating report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Teens, Games and Civics came out recently. Focussing on teen use of games (defined in very broad terms) the report is interesting reading.
It is revealing in that it shows that game playing is most definitely mainstream (95%+ participation) and that gaming is a [...]
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on the ‘Generational Myth’
September 16th, 2008 1 Comment
In a new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, former NYU professor and Copyright reform activist Siva Vaidhyanathan writes a provocative essay against the notion of ‘digital natives’ arguing the term and any idea of a ‘generational shift’ is ludicrous and masks the very real diversity in skills, knowledge and behaviours amongst users of [...]
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Camilla Cooke explains the Kevin07 digital campaign – notes from CCI ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce’ conference, Brisbane, 2008
June 28th, 2008 1 Comment
Here’s the second of a set of notes scribed during the main sessions of the CCI’s conference ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce‘.
Camilla Cooke was the strategist behind the Kevin07 digital campaign in what she described as ‘Australia’s first digital election’. In a fantastic presentation she went through the rationale behind the digital elements of [...]
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Henry Jenkins – notes from CCI ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce’ conference, Brisbane, 2008
June 28th, 2008 Comments Off
I’ve been in Brisbane the last few days – presenting the Powerhouse Museum’s Creative Commons and public domain projects and also managed attend one day of the CCI’s conference ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce‘. In amongst some truly awful examples of how not to use Powerpoint, there were some interesting presentations and papers.
Here’s [...]
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Social technologies and museums – the ‘groundswell’ and museums
May 24th, 2008 2 Comments
The folks at McGraw Hill/Harvard Business Press recently sent me an advance copy of Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff’s Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies for review. The book builds on Li and Bernoff’s Forrester research blog and in particular their social technographics work.
Aimed at managers, executives and marketing staff, the book [...]
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Behind the scenes of Launchball – an interview with Daniel Evans, Frankie Roberto, and Mike Ellis
March 20th, 2008 1 Comment
There is a lot to learn from the Science Museum’s (London) recent success with their Launchball online game.
The project has been enormously successful and recently won ‘best of show’ at SxSW. I conducted an interview with Daniel Evans, Frankie Roberto, and Mike Ellis to explore some of the ideas and processes behind the project.
Launchball was [...]
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The problem with “digital natives”
March 7th, 2008 Comments Off
Henry Jenkins and others have been rightly critical of the notion of ‘digital natives’. Their core argument is that digital skills are very unevenly spread across age groups and digital literacy levels are not as they might necessarily seem when you read Pew Internet Reports or similar claiming that “64% of online teenagers ages 12 [...]
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