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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Category Archives: Digital Playground
Google Glass and Museum-based Learning: A Day in D.C.
I don’t know much about Google Glass. I don’t own a pair. But I am fascinated by how electronic wearables, augmented reality, and cloud-based mobile computing are changing how we interact with the people and places in our lives. To … Continue reading
Taking the New MakerBot Digitizer For a Spin
Last Mother’s day, my two children and I took my wife to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to celebrate the day. We went to see the special exhibit, Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, which highlighted the “vital relationship between fashion and art … Continue reading
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Tagged digital fabrication
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Digital Playground: Bone Wars – a Paleo Card Game
As part of our recent Digital Playground series on science card games, Nathan, Ariam and I followed-up Parasites Unleashed with the rollicking Bone Wars: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology. Published by the same company, Zygote, this game was a winner. … Continue reading
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Digital Playground: Parasites Unleashed! Card Game
Recently, in our weekly Digital Playground (the exploration place in Education where we try out new and interesting digital tools and explore their educational affordances) a team of Museum educators began a multi-session series playing card games to explore relevant … Continue reading
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Digital Playground: Driving Sphero, a Robotic Ball, From Dinos to Outerspace
This week, Nathan, Ariam and I brought the Sphero into our weekly digital playground. We wanted to learn what this new toy/ user-interface/ development platform might afford for informal science learning. First, what is Sphero? As you can see above, … Continue reading
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Digital Playground: Reading This Might Make a Spaceship Roll Across Your Screen
Spacecraft 3D is a free mobile app produced by (for?) NASA. I first saw it in action last month at the Adler’s Space Visualization Lab. Select a spaceship – say, Curiosity on Mars – point the camera phone at a … Continue reading
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Tagged augmented reality, mobile, spacecraft
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A Visit to the Future: oblong’s Mezzanine & Greenhouse
What you picture when you hear the phrase “Minority Report” says a lot about you. For some it refers to the short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. For others it refers to the Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise blockbuster … Continue reading
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Tagged science visualization
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Capturing a Dinosaur: Using Digital Tools to Reproduce a Physical Model
When I first visited the library at the AMNH, I was amazed by all of the physical items in the collection. As a public library, I expected to find books and publications on file, with the special Natural History and … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Playground, From My Work
Tagged 3d modelling, 3d printing, amnh, dinosaur
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Digital Playground: MaKey MaKey
In a recent digital playground, we decided to get our hands on a MaKey MaKey and see what we could do with it. What’s a MaKey MaKey? I was convinced to buy one ($50) when I read the following description … 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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