Pachyderm is a content management system that supports the authoring and publishing of some of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's digital assets and was used to create "Making Sense of Modern Art" - a Web accessible multi-media program using the museum's collection "to explore the art and ideas of the 20th century" (Wise, 2002).  Susie Wise, SFMOMA's senior producer of Interactive Educational Technologies has published an article in the Winter/Spring 2002 issue of Spectra about Pachyderm.  It's accessible electronically: http://www.nmc.net/pdf/spectra.pdf  In September, The New Media Consortium was awarded a 3-year, half-million dollar grant to create Pachyderm 2.0.  Five museums and five higher ed. partners are collaborating to make this a system "that will be open source, royalty-free, and available to every not-for-profit museum, university and library in the U.S. " (see press release http://www.nmc.org/about/news/2003/PR-IMLS_grant.pdf  You can also visit the project website at www.nmc.net/projects/lo/pachyderm.shtml  Museums involved in Pachyderm 2.0 include SFMOMA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  

 

Sharon



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	>From: "Chaplock, Sharon" <[log in to unmask]>

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	>Subject: Learning Objects

	>Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:59:02 -0600

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	>Are any of your museums (or better, you!)  doing cataloging or developing

	>content of learning objects?  I'm engaged in research concerning

	>pedagogical approaches to learning objects based on museum collections.

	>Right now, I'd just like to get an idea of who may be working with learning

	>objects in museums.  Just to be clear, I'm speaking of learning objects

	>using Bank's definition of Learning Object: "a relatively small, reusable

	>resource, through which a coherent, identifiable piece of learning can be

	>achieved."  Small efforts or large projects such as Pachyderm are all of

	>interest.

	>

	>Thanks everyone!

	>Sharon

	>

	>Sharon Kayne Chaplock

	>Marquette University

	>School of Education

	>

	

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