One Room (The before post)
I’m about to start my gig at Office Hours, the RISD Museum program “where invited artists, designers, performers, and other
Education, Museums, teaching
Digital humanities, teaching, Technology
MOOCing
My post on my summer of being a student, and watching students work as professionals, is up on the Public
History of Museums, Management, Museums, Public humanities
History museums, learning from history
Can museums use museum history to think about the future? Can their past successes and failures guide them? How might
Museums, presentation, Public humanities, Technology
LeGrand Lockwood, Early Adopter
Back in April I gave a talk at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk, Connecticut. They’ve done a very nice
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Teaching through projects
The public humanities program has two required courses, one theory and one method Projects count for about 50 percent of
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Edward Tufte’s course on Presenting Data and Information, Storified
You can see my notes from the course, storified, here.
Collections, Exhibits
Authenticity, and bears
The scene: Roger Williams Natural History Museum, Providence, Rhode Island. A group of twenty third-graders has just arrived. The docent
AMST1550, teaching
Tomorrow’s the first day of class
Tomorrow’s the first day of AMST1550, Methods in Public Humanities. I’ve finished the third version of the syllabus today –
Education, Public humanities
A really quick definition of public history
My reply to Mary Rizzo’s Jon Stewart, public historian?, and especially Erik Greenberg’s comment: Let’s think about a “big tent” definition
Museums, Public humanities, Technology
Creative Providence: Past, Present and Future. An NEH Grant Proposal.
We’re submitting a planning grant to the NEH for a new program that will link Providence’s creative past with its
