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The course outline is now
available (see below) for this innovative blended online/on-campus learning
opportunity for professionals and volunteers working in
museums, heritage sites, and cultural centres. The registration deadline
is August 18, so register today!
Today's museums and cultural institutions are strengthened by
their creative use of the wealth of digital information/media they collect,
manage, preserve and share. Explore the dimensions, strategic value, and
potential uses of this diverse range of digital resources and learn how to
strategically harness these resources to improve the effectiveness of your
cultural institution and its internal and online information assets.
This engaging and interactive course provides you with the opportunity
to examine your institution’s information opportunities and develop a
project plan to act on one or more of them.
Whether you work with education, collections, research,
programming, marketing and audience development, or management within a museum
or heritage setting, this course strengthens your ability to:
Dates: Online component: September 15
– October 3; On-campus component: October 6 – 8, 2008
See draft course outline below for further information about each component.
Please register by: August 18 (late
registrations accepted if space permits)
To
register in this course please visit https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/forms/crm/online_reg.aspx.
Fee: CDN$641,
including a CDN$70 materials fee (Canadian funds, credit and non-credit
participation options) A CDN$170 registration deposit is required with each
registration form.
Instructors:
Scott Sayre, PhD and
Kris Wetterlund, Principals, Sandbox Studios/Museum411 Inc., work with museums
to plan, create, manage and assess education programs and technology projects.
Scott Sayre has over a
dozen years of experience guiding museums in the application of business and
educational technologies. Currently a founder and principal at Sandbox Studios
Inc., he previously served as the Art Museum Image Consortium's Director of
Member Services and US Operations. From 1991 to 2002 he was the Director Media
and Technology at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts where he formed and led the
museum's Interactive Media Group in the development of ArtsConnectEd.org, the
MIA's Web site <http://artsMIA.org>
and sixteen interactive multimedia gallery kiosks. Sayre held the position of
Applications Developer at the
Kris Wetterlund worked
with teachers as an art museum educator for the past ten years, in the
education department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and as Director of
Education at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Wetterlund received her
degree in art education from the
Draft
course outline:
On-line: Week 1-3
Week 1
The Changing Role of Museums and
Information Technology
1) Presentation
a) Course
Overview – objectives, outline, assignments
b) Defining
museum information.
c) The
importance of information management in the long-term success of an
institution. Expanding the definition, expanding the scope of museum
information
Week 2
Looking at Systems
1) Presentation
a. Politics of
museum information
b. Major museum
systems
2) Interview
with Steve Jacobsen – Constituency Management
3) Interview
with Dan Dennehy – Digitization and Digital Asset Management
Week 3
Metadata and Standards
1) Presentation
a. Content,
Data and Metadata
2) Interview
with Angela Spanazee – Introduction to Standards
3) Interview
with Susan Chun – Steve Tagging project
On Campus: Week 4 (three days only)
Day 1
Project Planning and Information Policy
In class activities
1) Lecture/Activity:
Resource Assessment
2) Lecture
– Developing a project proposal
3) Student and
Instructor project meetings and work time
4) Student
proposal idea presentation/discussion
5) Discussion
of
6) Work time
with instructor consulting
Day 2
Open Source, Interchange and Sustainability
In class activities
1) Lecture:
Data Interchange, Collaboration and Sharing
2) Case Study:
ArtsConnectEd
3) Remote guest
speaker Q&A – Guest speaker will be selected based on student
interest.
4) Work time
with instructor check-in
Day 3
New Technologies and Multimedia and
Usability
In class activities
1) ArtsConnectEd
Usability Testing
2) Student
Presentations
3) Lecture: Web
2.0 and beyond
4) Discussion
of
Continuing Studies,
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