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On museum's podcasting . . .

One model we've been noodling around with in our exhibit team is offering
pod-cast "insiders tours" of outdoors environments in support of an indoor
exhibition. The segments would be extensions of print Family Field Trip
Guides. The idea is based on CD tours like the one of Chinatown's
underbelly. On the CD you listen to segments with walking directions,
background, soundscape, and a few provocative questions. Participants
customize their tours by selecting the chapters they want.

Pod-casts and Vod-casts are a resource that seem a natural way to extend and
enhance visitors experiences before or after the museum visit. For
non-visitors the question becomes what would compel them to download science
related pod-casts (given that they are not choosing to come to science
centers.)


Sara


Sara DeAngelis
Project Manager/Lead Exhibit Developer
Brooklyn Children¹s Museum
145 Brooklyn Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11213

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> From: WAYNE LABAR <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Informal Science Education Network <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:26:53 -0500
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Science pod casts
> 
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> Concerning this subject
> 
> Here at Liberty Science Center are already working on launching the
> content that we supply guests on thie cell phones as a pod cast. That
> being being due to the issues with Apple's monopoly on getting content
> on an IPOD we are not concentrating  our efforts there.
> 
> That being said I think that we should not underestimate the value that
> audiences may find in having content outside our insitution.  Making
> podcasts less like a lecture an more like a science resource is a
> possiblity. The power of the IPOD is not that it is at the science
> center (certainly we should experiement with that use) but that it is
> used outside the science center. In fact content can be shared.
> 
> I think that these devices allow us to possibly impact the largest group
> of visitors we all have - nonvisitors. Looking at the news everyday we
> really need to reach them.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> Wayne J LaBar
> Vice President, Exhibitions and Theaters
> Liberty Science Center - Exhibits
> 285 West Side Avenue
> Suite 268
> Jersey City, NJ 07305
> 
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