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hi all,
I've been out at a conference since this original question was posted. I am the guy who developed and wrote the Pathways program and would be happy to talk to anyone about our ups and downs.
Ben Dickow
California Science Center
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Maria,
If your online resources include advance materials for school field trips,
you might want to read "Chaperone-Led Field Trips: The Road Less Traveled?"
in the current (September/October) issue of ASTC Dimensions. The theme of
the issue is "The Changing School Visit."
In her article, Kimberly M. Burtnyk, manager of evaluation at the California
Science Center's Amgen Center for Science Learning, describes formative and
summative evaluation of a web-based, self-guided field trip program
developed by the science center. ThinkSCIENCE! Pathways was designed to
enable teachers and adult chaperones to guide student groups in the exhibit
galleries. Evaluators set out to compare how using the downloadable Pathways
materials would affect student learning in test groups (with Pathways) and
control groups (without), but ran into an insurmountable problem--the test
groups were not bringing the materials with them to the museum.
Why weren't teachers and chaperones making use of this free resource?
Kimberly offers some conclusions and describes the science center's new
strategy for developing materials for educators. A sidebar of related
readings offers additional background on field trip experiences and
learning.
Other articles in the issue offer insight into creating on-site and off-site
programs that meet teachers' needs.
Regards,
Carolyn
Carolyn Sutterfield, Editor
Association of Science-Technology Centers
1025 Vermont Avenue NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20005-6310
U.S.A.
202/783-7200 x130 Fax 202/783-7207
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We are going live in November with on-line Education resources (pre-post
visit material, etc.) for educators and wanted to know if anyone had any
experience promoting on-line materials like this. What did you do? What
did you do that you think worked well? And/or how would you do it
differently now that you have experience?
We have an email "newsletter" with approx 700 teachers on it and we will of
course send info to them. But I was wondering the next step. Should we do
large postcard mailing??? or???? ( I find mailings sometimes just don't
seem to be effective.) I thought teachers who have used the materials might
be able to make presentations in their own schools, etc. But that reaches
only a very local population and is very grassroots.
We would welcome any suggestions or ideas.
Thanks.
Maria
Maria Mingalone
Director of Education and Public Programs
Berkshire Museum
39 South Street
Pittsfield, MA 01201
(413) 443-7171, ext 14.
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