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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. Human delivered experiences (2)
> 2. Grants for home school programs (3)
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> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 08:55:06 -0400
> From: Jennie Zehmer <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Human delivered experiences
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> This is a little aside to the subject of HDE, but I feel like typical
> interactive experiences are getting the short end of the stick here! And as
> a professional exhibitionist, I just want ot address it.
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> One of the attitudes that designers/developers can take is that interactive
> exhibits are an interaction between the device and the visitor. What if we
> caem from a different place? What if the interactive were considered a
> starting point for interaction between visitors? What if it were a
> conversation starter acknowledging the science knowledge/ability in each
> person? What is great about the HDE described so far is that people can talk
> and ask questions of a facilitator. What if exhibit interactives inspired
> people to talk to one another!? I have designed such exhibits for other
> genres of museums and had high dwell times - it works!
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> Jennie Zehmer
> Director of Exhibit Services & Development
> The Franklin Institute Science Museum
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> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:33:13 -0500
> From: Tim Pula <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Grants for home school programs
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> Recently we have begun serving a small part of our home school community.
> Word has spread and a larger portion of this community would like the same
> experience. We currently utilize an exhibit space, which we must close to
> the public during our home school program. Does anyone know of grant sources
> that could help us to offset the cost of closing this area, staffing costs
> and materials cost? The home school community here has a great need and we
> would like to reach out and serve that need in the most effective way
> possible.
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> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:16:36 -0500
> From: Karen Swade <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Grants for home school programs
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> Please share replies re: funding home school-museum partnerships with us
> as well.
> Thanks.
> Karen L. Swade
> Paul H. Leffmann Education Center
> Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
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> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
>> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related
>> institutions.
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>> Recently we have begun serving a small part of our home school community.
>> Word has spread and a larger portion of this community would like the same
>> experience. We currently utilize an exhibit space, which we must close to
>> the public during our home school program. Does anyone know of grant
>> sources
>> that could help us to offset the cost of closing this area, staffing costs
>> and materials cost? The home school community here has a great need and we
>> would like to reach out and serve that need in the most effective way
>> possible.
>>
>>
Thanks Eric,
Yep, I understand that you are looking at staffed experiences/programs,
that's why I framed my comments as an aside to your conversation. I think in
the realm of Human delivered experiences, we simply can't forget that
interactives can be Human delivered experiences too.
- Jennie
> Hi, Jennie: As the VP of the National Association for Museum
> Exhibition, I certainly agree with you, and our own exhibits services
> director raised a similar point. I believe that the Exploratorium's
> recent work on Active Prolonged Engagement addresses some of the
> factors you are mentioning.
>
> I am currently looking into something different, not floor staff as
> interpreters of exhibitions, but a separate type of programs in which
> people, aided by props, multimedia, whatever, are the primary
> deliverers of the message. For example, the Current Science program
> at MOS in Boston has a rather elaborate multimedia armature, but is
> fundamentally dependent on the staff person conducting the talk.
> Similarly with "science lunch counters" demos, and science theater.
>
> I have no doubt that human interaction adds to the impact of
> exhibitions, though I am grateful for research leads on this (thanks
> to those who have provided it). In this instance, I am casting about
> for the impact and audience attractiveness of these other genre of
> programs, the HDE (the birth of an acronym).
>
> Eric Siegel
> New York Hall of Science
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