Jan
29
2010
Hi all-
I have a few resources that I want to share with everyone before the t/c on Tuesday- mostly for design inspiration, but also a few about communicating climate change (piggy-backing on Chris’ email earlier today). I tend to get ahead of myself in my thinking process, so please excuse me if this is more applicable farther down the road.
Design Inspiration
COSEE Coastal Trends made a few modules for use by classroom teachers, but they have a few interactives and figures that would work really well in an exhibit:
Dead zones:
I like the figures on the bottom 3/4 of this page explaining oxygen levels and illustrating the difference between the 4 types of hypoxia
Scroll down to the Seasonal Trends on this page: I like the graph on the left that synthesizes what the data graphs mean
Observing the Ocean:
Scroll down to the three Try It activities on this page
Scroll down to the climate change Try It activity on this page
Cell size
This has no ocean connection, but I love the design of this page- sleek, clean, no instructions necessary, and had a huge impact on me!
COSEE NOW
This eutrophication animation is on the COSEE NOW website, so many of you may have see it already, but it’s worth putting up here as well.
NOAA- WaterLife game
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with this game, but it was designed and developed in partnership between NOAA and gaming students at Montgomery College. The game is a little on the longer side for an exhibit, but maybe the partnership with college students to assist with the development is something we could pursue? Or maybe that’s just a little too much for us right now? Food for thought, anyways.
Climate Change Communication
NSF Funded ISEs
International Action on Global Warming: The funding site, and the resulting project site
Science Center Collaborative: The funding site, and the resulting project site
Oregon Sea Grant
This is a blog and podcasts about communicating climate change
I hope this is more helpful than overwhelming, and I welcome any additions to these lists to make them more comprehensive.
Looking forward to talking with you all on Tuesday!
Sarah
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11
2010
Our second community webinar was held on January 11th, 2010.
If you were not able to attend (or you just want to relive the experience) you can watch the online recording of the session.
During the webinar, Tanya Bredehoft from Artefact Design walked us through the exhibit development process and presented some wonderful example of how to build effective installations.
If you have run across any cool resources or notable exhibits you’ve seen, please share them in a new post!
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11
2010
Hi all-
As requested, here is the link to the exhibit I developed and my thesis that goes into all the gory details of the design, development and evaluation process. The table of contents of my thesis (on pg 7 of the pdf) is linked to the chapters in the thesis and may help with navigation to the section you are interested in.
Also, if you are craving more literature, there are a number of citations in my thesis that some of you may be interested in. As Nancy and Tanya mentioned, Serrell and Falk and Deirking are some of the heavyweights in visitor studies, so starting with them is a good bet. Falk and Deirking focus on the visitor experience and the social, personal, and physical aspects of learning in a free-choice learning facility (museums, zoos, aquaria, etc.) and I find help with understanding the bigger picture of what makes visitors tick.
If you have any comments or questions, please let me know!
Sarah
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8
2010
Exhibit development PowerPoint
Hello everyone!
I hope the webinar was useful today. It’s hard talking to a group of people that you can’t see! There’s no way to know if people are bored, engaged, confused or delighted. (It’s kind of like not knowing what our visitors think/feel if we never get to see how they actually respond to our work.) We want your feedback on the evaluations, and we also want your feedback through this forum or via email this weekend so we can respond and adapt Monday’s webinar to meet your needs.
I’m posting the PowerPoint presentation from today’s webinar and a bibliography which we can add to as a group.
Please leave a comment here or drop me a line (nanrenner@gmail.com) with any questions, comments, constructive criticism or compliments! (I had to think of one more c-word.)
We’ll connect on Monday.
Nancy
Jan
8
2010
Our second community webinar was held on January 8th, 2010.
If you were not able to attend (or you just want to relive the experience) you can watch the online recording of the session.
During the webinar, Nancy Owens Renner walked us through the exhibit planning and design phases, while providing us with several insights on how to accomplish each step. She also presented a framework we can use to navigate the exhibit design process, and presented some wonderful examples of her past exhibit design work.
If you have run across any cool resources or notable exhibits you’ve seen, please share them in a new post!
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21
2009
Hi Everyone,
I went to the Exploratorium-NOAA Town Hall meeting at AGU this week. It was a great experience! I had an opportunity to talk with the Exploratorium about exhibit evaluation. Turns out they have a 5-7 person evaluation team and might be willing to talk to us on a Webinar about a book they published titled, “Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement.”
About the book – which was a 4year study and can be ordered online:
For exhibit developers, researchers, educators, and other museum professionals looking for ways to engage visitors more deeply with interactive science exhibits, Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement documents the exploration and findings of the Exploratorium’s APE project. Both a significant contribution to visitor research and a nuts-and-bolts guide to exhibit development, this book includes 15 APE Tales (exhibit recipes with photos, drawings, and detailed construction specifications); discussions of setting explicit goals for visitors’ exhibit experiences; research and evaluation methods and results; and lessons learned for building constructivist-style exhibits.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/partner/ape/ape_intro.html (I can’t figure out how to make this active).
Thanks for your comments on our project! Happy Holidays, Heather
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17
2009
Task: Create a prototype of your exhibit idea. You can use paper, cut-and-paste pictures, anything quick and dirty that will enable you to test your ideas in some form.
Test your prototype with three people. Using the results from your prototype testing, think about how you would change your prototype for another round of testing.
Use the questions in the document to help structure your thinking.
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17
2009
Check out the write up of a sea level activity I’ve used with kids of all ages (~5 – 16 yrs old). If you’re using this as a brief table top activity (e.g., at a commuinty event where you don’t have much time with folks) exclude the portion of this activity that has you melting ice.
Shrinking Islands notes_general
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16
2009
I just wanted to share this video with you that was made by the Center for Ocean Solutions and a few other partners for the Copenhagen topic of Oceans and Climate Change. http://centerforoceansolutions.org/climate/2009/12/climate-change-and-the-ocean-in-pictures/
While not directly mentioning IOOS, there are a few good plugs for the need for long term monitoring of our oceans. Thanks! Heather
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