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An Evaluation of Coursera as Public Outreach
Shaker rattle from Uganda I have posted several times lately about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) such as offered through coursera.org. In those posts I stuck to a general discussion of MOOCs,...
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Before National Archaeology Day & the Day After
National Archaeology Day (NAD), October 20, 2012, is one month away. Initiated by the Archaeological Institute of America, there are over 100 Collaborating Organizations for the 2012 events including...
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National Archaeology Day Celebration Activity Ideas
In preparation for National Archaeology Day at the C.H. Nash Museum we discussed the activities we wanted to make available to our visitors. In particular, we wanted to have effective programming for...
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A Story on Active Learning
On the first session of all my classes I present graphic representations of Parker Palmer’s top down and interactive models of education adapted from his book The Courage to Teach. I let students know...
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The Disconnect Between Museums and Schools
In an article titled “Insistent Questions in Our Learning Age” published in the Journal of Museum Education (Volume 35, Number 3, Fall 2010), Beverly Sheppard asks several questions including the...
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Baby Steps in Making Museums & Archaeology Relevant
Below is the modified text of a presentation I gave this past Saturday at the Student Committee Workshop on public education and outreach in archaeology at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference...
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We Have Met the Marketing/Promotion Enemy and He Is Us
cropped from a painting by Emma Connolly Digital museums was the topic in our Museum Practices seminar at the University of Memphis this past Tuesday. One of our readings was Carol Dunmore’s 2006...
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Archaeology and Open Authority
The guest post below is written by Elizabeth Bollwerk. I met Beth a couple of years ago in the session “Reimagining the Engaged Museum” at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings. In that...
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Wikipedia as a Scholarly Resource
By User:Husky and h3m3ls, Mischa de Muynck and Niels [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia CommonsOver the past couple of weeks, students in my Museum...
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A Mock Excavation That Really Works
This is the only completed square at this point in the dig site. According to the course structure and the size of the site, it will take more than 10 years to complete the entire site excavation. Mock...
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Presentation, Participation and Relevance in 2013
Steel Ponies exhibit, 2012, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art I have been thinking about some of the key concepts to address in community outreach around cultural heritage issues in...
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“It’s also about how the story gets told”: An ethnographic look at public...
This week I am pleased to present a guest post by Ennis Barbery on her public archaeology research in Maryland. Taking an ethnographic approach, Ennis explores the relevance and authority in the...
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Coproduction & Co-creation with Volunteers
A few weeks ago Ennis Barbery wrote here about coproduction with the public in archaeology. In museums, Nina Simon has published on the co-creative process in The Participatory Museum. In an...
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being
Recently, Nina Simon summarized the posts of several bloggers on the lack of ethnic diversity in the arts. This past week she posted On White Privilege and Museums that explores museums as venues of...
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What to do with all of those surface collections. . .
A few weeks I posted about how museum professionals and archaeologists can work with volunteers in the analysis of cultural materials and museum exhibits. I raised up a project that we were embarking...
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Creating a Participatory Archaeological Experience in Maryland
Kimberley Popetz This week’s post is an interview with Kimberley Popetz, the Director of Education at Maryland’s Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum. Kim directs an innovative, intensive and engaging...
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The Relevance of Cultural Heritage Professionals
A few months ago I posted a Museum Practices seminar student, Leila Hamdan’s response to the following question: Put yourself in the position of John or Josephine Q. Public. In the current economic...
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Summertime Museum Advocacy
As we head into the summer months archaeological sites and museums will see an increase in the number of visitors. Typically, the April to October period is the high visitation season for cultural...
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And Now . . . International Archaeology Day, October 19
Last year’s National Archaeology Day was a fantastic outreach opportunity to educate and engage the public about the importance of cultural heritage resources in the U.S. As I wrote then, National...
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Co-Creation from Hualcayan to Memphis
Community residents examine artifacts from this season’s excavations in the “pop-up” museum at the First Annual Cultural Festival of Hualcayán. I have blogged before about the Proyecto de Investigación...
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