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Wacky Promotional Video for Gutsy, the Card Game

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Barry

Inside our Museum’s latest exhibit – The Secret World Inside You – this video promotion for the Gutsy card game runs as the interstitial before and after the introductory video for the exhibit. It is so awesome! I watch it … Continue reading →

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MicroRangers Teaser Video

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Barry

MicroRangers is coming… in just few weeks. And here’s a little teaser. Below is a photo of the Communicator Coins which just arrived TODAY! We’re so excited to see them. Conceptually, they began as cards – one which I had … Continue reading →

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Hear me talk about Minecraft all week (please tip your waiter)

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Barry

Sometimes the Minecraft stars align, and sometimes they get all jumbled, and sometimes they just run into a creeper and get blown up. Wait… where was I going with all this? Oh, right! This week I am participating in not … Continue reading →

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“Digital Learning” in Museums: New or Passing Trend?

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Barry

I am currently out in the Midwest, attending the MCN conference in Minneapolis. It’s my first time at MCN and I look forward to discovering in person all the great things I’ve heard. I’ll be presenting this afternoon (details here) … Continue reading →

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Another Lovely Article on our Telepresence Robot

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Barry

Jessica Hullinger penned, “The high-tech museums of the future,” for the The Week. Check it out here or read it below. Like the recent coverage in the Wall Street Journal, it does an excellent job exploring how we’ve been experimenting … Continue reading →

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Feeling Gutsy? Check out a new card game about gut microbiomes

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Barry

It won’t be available for purchase in the store until the opening this weekend of our new exhibit, The Secret World Inside You, but you can download NOW the new card game we developed with exhibit co-curator Susan Perkins, students … Continue reading →

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WSJ Covers Robotic Telepresence in our Hall of Northwest Coast Indians

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Barry

Here’s an AWESOME piece in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, by Zolan Kanno-Youngs: “Robo Tour Guides Are Ready to Roll at Museums.” It features our explorations of using telepresence robots in our Hall of Northwest Coast Indians (which I discussed here). … Continue reading →

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How Games Transform Museum Experience: An Interview with the Smithsonian’s James Collins

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Barry

Below is an interview I did for my column on DMLcentral. Click here to read it or scroll down below. Officially, James Collins is the Digital Media Project Manager at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, working across … Continue reading →

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Creating a new Museum-based Education Center: An Interview with Hillary Cook of the Art Institute of Chicago

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Barry

Last March, when I was in Chicago for the Museums and the Web conference,  I ran around the city to meet with my colleagues in museums and libraries who were willing to share their youth spaces and how they’ve been … Continue reading →

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MicroRanger Teaser – art, augmented animation, and minigames

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Barry

This is the season. After more than a year and a half, MicroRangers is getting ready to launch. In spring, 2014, we held the first youth program, MicroMuseum, to see if this idea even had any legs, the idea of … Continue reading →

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