Hi. I am Barry Joseph.
I am formerly the VP of Digital Experience at the Girl Scouts of the USA and Associate Director For Digital Learning at the American Museum of Natural History.
When I began at the Museum I used this blog to talk about my adventures, exploring issues related to digital media and museum-based learning. I featured original interviews, thought pieces, and highlights from my work and those of my colleagues at the AMNH.
Starting in 2020, with the launch of Barry Joseph Consultancy, LLC, I turned this blog into a place to explore digital engagement writ large.
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Student Reflections on the MicroMuseum Program
We spent a large portion of the final regular session of the MicroMuseum reflecting on our favorite moments in the program, what we enjoyed learning about and what most surprised us. When we asked, “What was one of your favorite … Continue reading
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MicroMuseum – Session 16 – Extreme Micro-biology
In this session the we formed three groups, each researched a topic and made a poster to display the information… The topics were: The Hygiene Hypothesis (Could allergies lessen if we ate dirt and touched more cows?) The Human Microbiome and … Continue reading
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MicroMuseum – Sessions 14 and 15 – Starting a Museum-ome
Here are our last few actors playing their parts! The Environmental Specialist (P.H. Meter): Captain Polyp, a citizen concerned about coral bleaching:
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MicroMuseum – Sessions 12 and 13 – 3, 2, 1, Action!
Script written, we moved on to… Lights, Camera, Action! The actors practiced lines, each with their own coach, while another group designed cards and emblems for the scientists.
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MicroMuseum Sessions 10 and 11 – Scriptwriting!
We got down to script writing after playing our version of “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” a game we call “Microbes, Microbes Everywhere!” in which bacteria eats protist, protist eats virus, and virus eats bacteria. Each, of course, has it’s own movement … Continue reading
MicroMuseum, Session 8 – Microscopes, Malaria and Movie (oh my)
This was an action packed session!! Right away we rushed to see Mysteries of the Unseen World, the latest AMNH Imax movie in our new 3D theater. These mysteries included things that are too small to see like… MICROBES! It was a fortuitous … Continue reading
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MicroMuseum, Session 9 – The Big Reveal!
In this session the big decision was made!! The two sites for the prototype will be… Water Buffalo (and Methanogen) and Coral (and Zooxanthellae)
MicroMuseum, Session 7 – Storyboarding AR Ideas
In an attempt to pick the two exhibits (out of five still under consideration) for the prototype of MicroRangers, we used transparencies over photos of the actual exhibits to develop potential storyboards of the augmented reality “microgames” players will have … Continue reading
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MicroMuseum, Sessions 5 & 6 – Setting the Location
The youth spent two whole days of their spring break with MicoMuseum for our 5th and 6th sessions. And boy did we get things done!! The first day we explored children’s games designed by Toca Boca, as well as their … Continue reading
MicroMuseum, Session 4: Iterative Design & The Hall of Ocean Life
In our fourth session of MicroMuseum we looked at the process of iterative design and how it relates to what we will be doing over the next two months. Each youth picked a random piece of paper bearing one of the … Continue reading
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