The Heritage Interpretation Training Center
A sample my new/updated
interpretive course offerings for Summer 2022 J
Prof John
Veverka
I
am pleased to offer some of my current and newest interpretation courses for Summer
2022. As for all of my 44 courses, extensive
handout materials and textbooks are provided.
See which courses you might be interested in for this and next year and
I can chat about how the courses work. etc.
Here’s the link for the complete 44 course catalog. http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_training_center_course_catalogue_.html
I can also offer
group/team training for more than one course participant. Courses and lectures can be offered via ZOOM
presentations and discussions. Ask for details and discounted costs.
Start a course any time –
work on the course at your own speed. Chat with John anytime.
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Introduction to Heritage Interpretation -
14 Units - 2 CEU credits. $200.00
The
basic college level entry course into what makes the message or media
“interpretive”? Provoke, Relate and
Reveal, theme development, interpretive objectives and developing the message
to be as inspirational and memorable as informational.
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Interpreting the Climate Crisis – 2022
Interpretive Planning for Programs, Exhibits, Panels and Related
Services To Help You to Interpret Climate Change and
Global Warming Issues to Your Audiences, Communities and Regions.
13 Units, 4 CEU's $250.00. Our Climate Change special resource issues
will be included:
This course has a focus on Fire, Drought, Heat,
Wildlife Effects, Flooding and Rainforests.
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Interpretive Master Planning for Climate Change
Impacts, interpreting on-site climate crisis affects (short and long term).
Updating or Creating Park/Heritage Site Interpretive Master Plans to
Focus on Site Climate Changes Visible Impacts on park/heritage site features,
landscaped and natural or cultural resources. 10 Units, $200.00
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Interpreting Legends,
Myths and Fables.
($200.00 course
tuition)
Storytelling when folklore is already part of our cultures.
Our
cultures are surrounded by legends, myths and fables, all of which had (or
still have) important cultural connections. This course is to help you
re-discover your sites or regions stories and present them to your visitors,
weather around an evening campfire, a guided walk in a historic district or
cemetery, through a cultural heritage museum exhibit.
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When there's nothing left but the
story… Interpreting the Abandoned.
Our new course on helping interpreters develop their interpretive techniques, skills
and story- telling planning to help them interpret the abandoned landscape,
cabin, farm fence line, battlefields, archaeological ruins, sites or artifacts
left behind by their owners, waiting to have their forgotten stories
re-awakened, brought to life and revealed by the interpretive storyteller.
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Advanced Interpretive Techniques -Interpreting the "rest of
the story".
Interpreting "the rest of the story", a powerful
Interpretive communications technique for revealing and releasing the
"rest of the stories" hidden in artifacts, objects, historical
figures/events, landscapes, or sites through both live presentations and interpretive
media text and label copy.
12 Units, $200.00
Interpretive
writing needs to have a focus of releasing the main idea or concepts in a short
and memorable format – a great follow-up to the introduction to interpretation
course.
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Writing for themes and objectives.
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Tangibles and intangibles.
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Short and memorable
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Active language – paint with words.
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Provoke – Relate and Reveal
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50 – 100 words for exhibits and outdoor panels
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Work on actual writing projects you may have.
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More to write right. J
- My Interpretive Writers Guidebook is
included with the course.
Includes a copy of my new
“Interpretive Trails Book”
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Skills
– techniques – activities and philosophy for teaching (and inspiring)
interpretive communications to others.
Provoke, Relate and Reveal. My
new interpretive training handbook will be included for the course.
This
course focuses on the basics for planning truly interpretive exhibits:
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Exhibit psychology of the audience.
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Exhibit load and costs/contact
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Exhibit themes and focus workshop.
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Exhibit storyline flow.
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Individual exhibit planning forms
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Exhibit pre-post test evaluations
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Writing exhibit label copy.
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Exhibit rehab – breathing new life into
old, out dated and just plain boring exhibits and exhibit galleries with a
limited budget. Course tuition:
$200.00 – 2 CEU unit credits.
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What
do you do if the objectives of your exhibits are not met, or your find exhibit
mechanical issues? What happens if you
find your exhibits create “negative learning”?
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Historical
sites, botanical gardens, parks and heritage sites and other interpretive
sites. Below, Interpretive Planning for
Nine-Mile Canyon, UT. My Interpretive
Master Planning textbook is the course textbook.
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Interpreting Invasive Species - Nine Units - $250.00 tuition, 2 CEU Unit
Credits.
Interpreting Invasive Species - Identification, Prevention, Management and Interpretive Media
for Public Awareness.
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A Curators guide for
helping their docents/volunteers create truly interpretive gallery
tours for Art and Traditional Museums.
$200.00 USD.
Techniques for revealing
the hidden stories and meanings in art and artifacts for presenting dynamic and
inspirational interpretive tour experiences for your visitors.