The Heritage Interpretation Training Center
A sample my new/updated interpretive
course offerings for Spring 2023 J
Prof John Veverka
I am pleased to offer
some of my current and newest interpretation courses for Spring 2023. As
for all of my 44 courses, extensive handout materials and textbooks are provided.
See which courses you might be interested in for this year and we can chat
about how the courses work. 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.
You can start a course
any time – work on the course at your own speed. Chat with John anytime as
well.
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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
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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.
- Writing for themes and
objectives.
- Tangibles and
intangibles.
- Short and memorable
- Active language –
paint with words.
- Provoke – Relate and
Reveal
- 50 – 100 words for
exhibits and outdoor panels
- Work on actual writing
projects you may have.
- More to write
right. J
- My Interpretive
Writers Guidebook is included with the course.
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Planning Interpretive
Trails e-LIVE Course - 13 Units - 2.5 CEU Credits $200.00
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.
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This course focuses on
the basics for planning truly interpretive exhibits:
- Exhibit psychology of
the audience.
- Exhibit load and
costs/contact
- Exhibit themes and
focus workshop.
- Exhibit storyline
flow.
- Individual exhibit
planning forms
- Exhibit pre-post test
evaluations
- 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.
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