Lab Museum Design & Interpretation

Here is the 12 minute video with Kerri Barile about archaeology at the Germanna site. Good work archaeology group!

The Exhibit Files project is an interesting example of the Web 2.0 logic being rolled out in the museum world. This serice allows curator to docuemnt their process of working through the interpretive, design, and research process of creating an exhibit.

The final exam will be in essay form.  I would ask each of you to consider the following three things when framing the essay:

Sheila Brennan's blog, "Relaxing on the Trial" gives a nice overview and links to this year's Best of the Web awardees in the museum category. Link.

As I mentioned in class, this year's Museums on the Web conference just finished up in San Francisco. This conference deals specifically with the intersection of the web and the future of museums.

As for mapping, this may be a quick and easy solution for mapping the Golden Horse Shoe adventure and other details of Germanna.

Here's an excellent example:

Example of Google's My Maps

...will be held in DuPont 316 from 2-3:15 for discussion and training on video editing. I'll provide the videos, you provide the imagination!

George Siemens, from elearnspace, has posted the following provacative thoughts about the future of libraries and museums:

Time for a status report from each of the groups and an assessment of how we are going to make the virtual exhibit happen over the next six weeks.

Status report 3/20