Ideas From Elsewhere

This talk “Engaging Design: How Values and Philosophies Shape Spaces”  was written for a presentation at the Museums Australia Conference in Brisbane in 20

This collaborative power point was prepared for the AAM conference in 2009.  Jim Volkert, Dana Greil and Judy Gradwahl were the speakers.  I served as summation speaker.  All three o

George Hein has spent an academic lifetime focused on learning in museums and its relationship to learning theory.  This slide package allows students and museum staff to understand the educat

Nina Simon is a prolific and original thinker.

This project “Boston Stories” is the work of many people, mostly alumni of the Boston Children’s Museum during the 1970’s onward.

The link below will take you to a very interesting bibliography put out by IMLS and attached to its 21st Century Skills report in 2010. 

• This power point was written an introduction to the issue of Timeliness and Relevance in museums especially in museum exhibitions and programs.