Monthly Archives: December 2012

Interview with High School Youth Talking About Youth Science Filmmaking

With funding from The Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust, graduates of the award winning Lab at Reel Works teamed up with science learners from the American Museum of Natural History over the Summer to … Continue reading

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Digital Playground: “Video Tools for the Future”

Jasper Visser’s blog The Museum of the Future just posted a fantastic round-up: “5 online video tools for the future: interactive, automated and embedded in the web“. They  include: Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker Galahad Qwiki Wibbitz All are quite interesting and … Continue reading

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Digital Media at the new Museum of Mathematics

The new Museum of Mathematics opened up this month, in NYC. When I first heard of it, I was super excited to check it out. It’s like a Science Center, using experiential learning to explain scientific concepts, but the concepts, … Continue reading

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Spacewar! at the Museum of the Moving Image: The Challenge of Bringing Games Into Museums

This has been a busy season for video games in NYC museums, what with the acquisitions announcement from the Museum of Modern Art and the Meade Arcade at the American Museum of Natural History (an upcoming interview here will focus … Continue reading

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Registration Opens for AMNH’s 1st Digital Learning Week

I am so excited to announce the new slate of day-long programs we will run this January 22-25, for high school youth. Each is designed using various digital tools to explore different museum halls. Each is also designed to help … Continue reading

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How I Intend to Advance Digital Media & Museum-based Learning at the AMNH

This is my final of three transition posts. My first reflected back on my 12 years at Global Kids (“I’m Leaving GK and What You Can Do About It“). My second looked forward to starting my job at the AMNH … Continue reading

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Part 1 of 3: I Work In A Matryoshka Doll

(This is the second in a series. If you want to start at the beginning, go here) My role is to support the capacity building of my colleagues in Youth Initiatives towards the strategic use of digital media and learning … Continue reading

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Part 2 of 3: What’s In The Works?

(This is the third in a series. If you want to go to the second, go here, or to start at the beginning, go here) I am not a department. I am a cross-program resource, so to speak. So I … Continue reading

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Part 3 of 3: So, How Did The Transition Feel?

(This is the fourth and last in a series. If you want to go to the third, go here, or to start at the beginning, go here) The Jewish High Holidays took place during the transition period between when I … Continue reading

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Interview with Jeffrey Yohalem, Game Writer for Assassin’s Creed & Far Cry 3: Re-thinking Museums From the Outside

Occasionally this blog will look beyond the world of museum-based learning to explore what we can learn from those outside looking in. This interview will focus on commercial game design – specifically those multimillion dollar beasts that rival movies at … Continue reading

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