Jeannine :

        I've been working on a travelling exhibition web site at the
Smithonian (http://www.si.edu/maroon). The original purpose of the
web site was to give teachers around the country educational material
about the travelling exhibition. There are two versions of the
educational guide. One online and one they can download (pdf). Of
course there is a printed version of it but I don't know anything
about that one. I've been working on the web oriented project.
        The costs for us is really low... The full educational guide
with exercises and pictures is about 350 pages big. It'll be MUCH
more than 5$ to print. Therefore, especially because everything is
not equally interesting for a teacher that want to focus on one (or
two or three) aspect(s) of the exhibit, being able to print one (or
two or three) part(s) of the educational guide is very interesting,
time and money saving. They can still browse through the rest...
        Plus, from my personal point of view, those resources could
be interesting for regular visitors, because everything that is
written in the educational guide is NOT found in the exhibition.
Therefore, it's documentation that visitors want to read either
because they are to visit the exhibit, or they can't.

        On another level, it's always interesting to see what other
museums are doing for educational activities, how they prepare the
visitors, etc. I really think the museum community should take
advantage of that cheap technology (Internet) to built an online
archive of educational material... That's all about sharing knowledge.

Romain Haug
french student
MA Museology
Montréal, Canada

>Jeannine Finton wrote:
>
> > We've completed the guide and now are faced with a dilemma. Because it does
> > contain primary source images and documents, all the student worksheets and
> > educational objectives, each lesson averages about 7 pages in length. The
> > total guide is around 50 double-sided pages. The cost of photocopying and
> > mailing the guide would be around $5 per copy.  While the cost might
> > eventually get built into the program fees, in the short term that is a
> > significant expense.
>
>Jeannine:
>
>A suggestion.
>Does the museum have a web site?  You might consider putting the
>entire guide on the web site in a .pdf format.  The teachers could
>then download and print it off themselves.
>
>You could send them all copies of the three suggested lessons along
>with information on how to find the entire book on the Internet.  If
>they don't have web access, they could order a copy from you for
>$5.00.
>
>Heather Price
>Ella Sharp Museum
>Jackson, Michigan
>
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