Monthly Archives: August 2013

A Close Look at the Development of Planetmania, a Museum-Based Mobile App: an interview with developer David Schaller

Last Fall, when I first began working in a Natural History museum, I started to look for examples of customized museum mobile apps. One of the first that came across my radar was Planetmania. There are some things I like … Continue reading

Posted in Interviews, Practice | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Using Card Games to Bring a Sense of Play to Informal Science Learning

This Fall the Museum will be launching our first Science Card Game program (more details later and registration notification sign-up here). This grew, in part, from a number of Digital Playgrounds I blogged about last spring, such as the awesome … Continue reading

Posted in From My Work, Practice | Tagged | 1 Comment

Teaching Paleontology at Night at the Museum through Digital Fabrication

For sure, one of the coolest things about working at the Museum is getting to be involved with the sleepovers, otherwise known as Night at the Museum. Sorry, it is not like the movie – the dioramas do not come … Continue reading

Posted in From My Work, Practice | Tagged | 2 Comments

Official Video From Capturing Dinosaurs

I am thrilled to be able to now share with all of you the official video from our Capturing Dinosaurs program, which concluded just over two weeks ago. The Communications department did a fantastic job of capturing the excitement experienced … Continue reading

Posted in From My Work | Tagged , | Comments Off on Official Video From Capturing Dinosaurs

A Trip to Shapeways: Visting the Future of Digital Printing

Last May, a number of us from around the Museum took a field trip to Long Island City, an industrialized section of western Queens, walking over bridges and past train depots to get to a nondescript warehouse-style building whose occupants … Continue reading

Posted in From My Work | Tagged | Comments Off on A Trip to Shapeways: Visting the Future of Digital Printing