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This is a handout from the session "Dream, Design, Fab! Engaging Youth With Digital Fabrication" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The session described the Fab Lab program at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Matt Chalker Dan Meyer Rabiah Mayas
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Evaluation in Practice: Stories from the front-line" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout provides brief overviews from each of the three presenting institutions and compiles a list of evaluation resources mentioned in the session.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sarah Cohn Whitney Owens Rachel Carpenter Jen Lokey
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This is a handout from the session "Evaluation Capacity Building: Current initiatives and future directions" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout provides a brief overview of five different projects that enhance evaluation capacity for the field.
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resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "The CEO Debate 2: Museum leaders consider current issues" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout presents a list of current questions and trends that were posed to museum CEOs to discuss during the session.
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TEAM MEMBERS: John Jacobsen Mac West
resource research Exhibitions
This article describes the development of Human +, an exhibition designed to explore the role of technology in daily life explored through the lens of technologies for people with disabilities. Reflecting the design cycle of Participatory Action Design, Human + integrated participation from people with disabilities, both as users and as designers of technology.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Eric Siegel
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Museums 3.0: Implementing programs/exhibits which are a community resource" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. This handout includes slides from each of the presenters.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lath Carlson Priya Mohabir Kristin Leigh Devon Hamilton
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This is a handout from the session "Design/Build or Design/Bid/Build…that is the question!" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout includes notes from the session that outline risks, opportunities, and solutions regarding exhibit design.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bill Booth Penny Jennings Greg Belew Tony Zodrow Barbara Punt Steve Wiersema Tamara Schwarz
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Knowing your Community: To Be More Interesting, Be More Interested" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It provides a set of three questions for museum professionals to ask members of their community.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Bill Booth
resource research Public Programs
This is a handout from the session "Engaging Underrepresented Populations in your STEM Programming: A place-based approach" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It includes slides from the presentation, which describe how a neighborhood-based approach can be used to reach target audiences.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Christine Keefe
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This is a handout from the session "Risky Exhibits: Tackling Tough Topics" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. It includes slides from each of the panelists.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Lath Carlson Paul Martin Michelle Maranowski Mikko Myllykoski
resource research Media and Technology
This is a handout from the session "What If There Wasn't a Building? Pecha Kucha" at the 2014 ASTC Conference held in Raleigh, NC. The handout links to a recording of the session.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Eli Kulansky Kathy Gustafson-Hilton Paul Orselli Troy Livingston Phoebe Schenker Julie Bowen Joannna Haas
resource evaluation Public Programs
To better help museum visitors make sense of large data sets, also called “big data”, this study focuses on what museum visitors felt individual layers of a visual (alone and in combination with other layers) were communicating to them as the visual was constructed or deconstructed layer by layer. A second, smaller study, collected data to better understand how adult visitors would construct large data visualizations. This study was concerned with how people make sense of “big data” in their daily lives and how they engage with reference systems. The primary study used four different “big data
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TEAM MEMBERS: Indiana University Mary Ann Wojton