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ISE PI Meeting 2012 Program Guide

The 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Informal Science Education (ISE) Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting convened 241 PIs, March 14-16, 2012. This Program Guide includes the agenda, location map, and a list of CAISE Partners and Advisors. The agenda includes descriptions of Nascent to Burgeoning Communities of Interest discussions along themes related to STEM Media, Organizational Networks, Professional Development in ISE, Sustainability Science and Education in ISE, Art and Science Education, Public Engagement with Science, Future of Natural History Learning, Designing, Making, Playing
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TEAM MEMBERS: CAISE
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Part 2: Where Do We Go From Here?

In this article, Ross J. Loomis of Colorado State University discusses the significance of the Visitor Studies Conference in Ottawa as well as the regular presentations on visitor research at the American Association of Museums national meetings. Loomis also outlines agenda items for the newly created Visitor Studies Association and future Visitor Studies Conferences.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Ross J. Loomis
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Presidential Address Missions: Current and Future

In this VSA presidential address, Harris Shettel discusses the new VSA Mission Statement and some of the issues Shettel sees facing VSA as it begins its second full year of existence.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Harris Shettel
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Planning for a Future: Teaching and Training in Visitor Studies

In this paper, Lois H. Silverman of Indiana University examines visitor studies teaching and training needs. Silverman summarizes discussions and recommendations formed during a forum on this topic at a recent VSA conference.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lois H. Silverman
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A Message from the President: Looking Back, Looking Forward

In this message from the President of VSA, Ross J. Loomis introduces this issue of "Visitor Studies Today!" and discusses a few relevant topics including student involvement in visitor studies and VSA housekeeping items (conference, committee nominations).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Ross Loomis
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A Word from Care: AAM Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation

In this article, Ellen Giusti, exhibition evaluator at AMNH and the AAM Committee on Audience Research and Evaluation (CARE) Chair, discusses proceedings from the 1999 Annual AAM National Program Committee Meeting in Cleveland as well as plans for next meeting and updates on AAM organizational issues.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Ellen Giusti
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From the Editor's Desk

In this note from the editor of "Visitor Studies Today!", Kris Morrissey introduces the issue with an update on the annual VSA conference. Morrissey also discusses two new columns in the issue: one on thoughts and experiences with the processes or products of evaluation and one on technology.
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TEAM MEMBERS: kris morrissey
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First Annual Visitor Studies Meeting Program Schedule

This is a program schedule for the First Annual Visitor Studies Meeting in Oxford, Alabama, April 6-8, 1988.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Stephen Bitgood
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Notes from the Editor

In this forward, Stephen Bitgood, editor of "Visitor Behavior," briefly acknowledges supporters of the publication, evaluates the progress of visitor studies activities, and introduces the current issue which focuses on the upcoming First Annual Visitor Studies Meeting in Alabama as well as the problem of visitor misbehavior.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Stephen Bitgood
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Sample Abstracts from the First Annual Visitor Studies Conference

This article features eight abstracts from the First Annual Visitor Studies Conference. Institutions represented in these abstracts include the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Science Learning, Inc., Hood Associates, Jacksonville State University, Smithsonian Institution, and University of Florida.
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TEAM MEMBERS: G. Donald Adams John H Falk Marilyn G. Hood Donald Patterson Stephen Bitgood D.D. Hilke John Scott Foster John J. Koran, Jr. Mary Lou Koran Steven Start Ann Blackwood Harriet Landers
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Report from the Education Committee

In this report, Minda Borun summarizes the activities of the business meeting of the Education Committee, which took place at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums in Pittsburgh.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Minda Borun
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News about the AAM Evaluation and Research Committee

In this brief announcement, Harris Shettel, Chair of the AAM Evaluation and Research Committee, discusses recent news about the Committee, including its approval by the AAM council as a Standing Professional Committee and relevant activities at the upcoming AAM program in New Orleans.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Harris Shettel