Annotated images of museums and attractions I found of interest when I visited the west coast of the USA in 2014 to attend the Association of Childrens Museums Conference and present a paper to the American Alliance of Museums AGM and Expo. For more see museumsliteracies.blogspot.com.au
Show and teach: the role of exhibitions in outreach and educationUCD Library
Presentation given by Evelyn Flanagan, Head of UCD Special Collections, UCD Library, and Associate Professor Lucy Collins, UCD School of English, Drama and Film to the LAI Rare Books Group Seminar held on 30th November, 2018, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland.
This presentation features slides and the subjects being taught at Chatsworth Park Elementary School in the 1920s to 1940s.
Part 1 explains Glass Lantern slides and shows the Slide Sets Explorers, Pioneers, Gold Rush, Mining Towns and Jack in the Beanstalk ( a total of 63 slides)
Part 2 shows Desert Life, Maps, Butter & Cheese, Milk, The Dairy Farm, and Christmas (a total of 95 slides)
Show and teach: the role of exhibitions in outreach and educationUCD Library
Presentation given by Evelyn Flanagan, Head of UCD Special Collections, UCD Library, and Associate Professor Lucy Collins, UCD School of English, Drama and Film to the LAI Rare Books Group Seminar held on 30th November, 2018, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland.
This presentation features slides and the subjects being taught at Chatsworth Park Elementary School in the 1920s to 1940s.
Part 1 explains Glass Lantern slides and shows the Slide Sets Explorers, Pioneers, Gold Rush, Mining Towns and Jack in the Beanstalk ( a total of 63 slides)
Part 2 shows Desert Life, Maps, Butter & Cheese, Milk, The Dairy Farm, and Christmas (a total of 95 slides)
MW17 Closing plenary: Creating the Visitor-centered MuseumPeter Samis
A rare opportunity to come full circle: 10 years ago I presented about an interpretive evaluation that showed that even if our digital interpretive resources made a huge difference for those who used them, most visitors didn't. For five years I've been researching and co-writing a book on innovative museums that use more holistic ways of reaching their visitors. Here's the presentation I gave. (I was followed by Merilee Mostov, Director of Inclusive Interpretation at the Columbus Museum of Art--one of our ten case study museums.)
"Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum" Book Launch at OMCAPeter Samis
My new book co-authored with Mimi Michaelson, titled "Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum," was the subject of an event at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) on Friday, February 3, 2017. I presented the accompanying slide deck as a backgrounder for a dialogue with OMCA Director and CEO Lori Fogarty before we both took questions from the audience. A great and stimulating time, with friends, students, and colleagues from near and far. Many thanks to the John F. Kennedy University Museum Studies Program and OMCA for organizing it!
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
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2014 Museum travels to the west coast of the USA
1. Gratuitous observations made
2014 travels to the
west coast of the USA
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Association of Children's Museum Conference
Las Vegas
Seattle
Alliance of American Museums AGM and Expo
San Francisco
including the surprising highlights:
Las Vegas’ Neon Light Boneyard Museum
San Francisco’s 826 Valencia The Pirate Store
3. The cafes, shops and site given the same
prominence as the exhibitions
4. • Getty Family Room
• Two languages in signage
• Little relationship
between inside and
outside-though adult
galleries showed scant
regard for this
opportunity (the
landscaping stunning but
the weather is hot to the
point of hostile)
• Family booth at the entry
with children's trails and
hire of audio trail for
families
5. • Getty Family Room
• 5 immersive rooms
with photo of artwork
at the entry of each
eg a child can try out
the bed
14. An exhibition that explored museums as cultural and
historic artefacts. Included photographs of dioramas,
wax portraits and re purposing photographic
negatives. It was unrelated to my research yet fed my
fascination with collections and the notion of truth.
It was enchanting.
19. • Downtown Phoenix was low rise;
misted footpaths and had Little
Free Libraries dotted around
town
20. Study tour of Phoenix Children's Museum
Customised family friendly
promotions by monthly
program sponsor
ATM and two tiered bubbler
at the entry
21. Playful even in
the corridors
Pop up corridor sports based on
Special Olympics program for children
22. Still in the corridors-
for storing shoes
Rearranging bouquets of flowers. The Van Gogh (a
reproduction, though in the States who can tell and
would it matter here?) as inspiration.
35. Chihuly in the Bellagio Foyer
Kitsch surprisingly difficult to find
though gold when it was
36. Floral painting based on artwork by
Polly Thayer displayed in the garden
to cross promote a travelling
exhibition from the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts in the Bellagio’s own
Gallery.
‘Drink, play, discover’
Slogan for grown up child’s space in
The Luxor
41. • Lessons from the International Community:
Museums, Teachers and Literacy
Education and Interpretation
• Wednesday, May 21 10:15-
11:30a.m. Washington State Convention
Center 620
Innovative Art Teaching Using Museum
Resources explores the “A is for Art” program, a
collaborative effort between the Asian
Civilisations Museum and the Singapore
Teachers’ Academy for the aRts, which aims to
build competencies of elementary art teachers
to meaningfully engage students in museum-
based art lessons.
• Dating Literacy: A New Relationship examines a
pilot project between the Museum of Old and
New Art (MONA) and the Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery in which partners from
museums, a state library, community agencies
and families address literacy as a new organizing
principle in which to encourage public
engagement with museum collections and
ideas.
•
Global Perspectives
Presenter: Greg Stevens, American Alliance of
Museums; Helen Whitty, Powerhouse Museum;
Melissa Viswani, Asian Civilisations Museum,
National Heritage Board
67. Valencia 827
826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting
students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository
writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
826 Valencia was founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and
educator Nínive Calegari. Its shop front is a Pirate Store that sells
pirate stuff and children's writings.