This week I’m preparing for another Varsity Tutors Large format course, on Monday, February 22, at 7pm EST/ 5pm MST: “Making Your Family’s Museum Visit Magical.” In this 2nd of 2 presentations I’ll virtually visit three museums and utilize their online platforms to demonstrate some tools and activities to make museum going fun for theContinue reading “My Top 5 Favorite Online Museum Platforms”
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Who are Museums For?
Later this afternoon I’m going to be presenting a “star” course for Varsity Tutors, an international online, tutoring service. My course tonight is a FREE, large-format course that allows me to share my Mondays @ the Museum product to a much broader audience than I could on my own. I really appreciate this platform thatContinue reading “Who are Museums For?”
Renewal
The last almost 6 months have been an incredible journey for Mondays @ the Museum! The plan for the Mondays @ the Museum side-gig experiment has always been a temporary one with the hope that the product(s) would have “legs” enough to provide adequate short-term funds in addition to opportunity to grow and learn andContinue reading “Renewal”
How to visit a Museum
I grew up with a visual artist and an amateur art historian. That meant that I was required to visit art galleries and museums in every town we visited and on every family vacation. While I appreciated most visits, I was also a normal child and teen and incredibly bored most of the time. EspeciallyContinue reading “How to visit a Museum”
Looking back to look forward
In the next few months I’ll be expanding my content creation for Mondays @ the Museums to provide new live and recorded videos on a number of topics related to museums and the world of informal education. While putting together my budget projections for the upcoming calendar year, I had to ask myself “why” again.Continue reading “Looking back to look forward”
Reflecting towards the New Year: 2020 is almost over (Huzzah!)
Mondays @ the Museum has made it 5 months from inception and 4 months from incorporation! When I first started Mondays @ the Museum, it was in response to a need for supplemental income and a realization that I had a unique (and possibly profitable) skill set that others might actually benefit from. My skillContinue reading “Reflecting towards the New Year: 2020 is almost over (Huzzah!)”
What is Mondays @ the Museum “selling?”
Recently I was introduced to a marketing professional who specializes in developing LMS or Learning Management Systems. For those that are unfamiliar with the term (as I was), “A learning management system is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation and delivery of educational courses, training programs, or learning and development programs.Continue reading “What is Mondays @ the Museum “selling?””
Questioning King Tut: Think Like an Archaeologist
This week the state of Idaho stepped back into phase 2 of our re-opening plan in response to rising COVID-19 cases. As our museum has to cut back our in-person access to our exhibition, I am thrilled that we get to share our space virtually with a national audience!
STEM @ the Museum: Educational Video
It’s alive!! STEM @ the Museum is the next iteration of the Mondays @ the Museum product development experiment. Similar to Frankenstein’s monster, this video takes and modifies parts from Session 4 of the Tour the Met course: “STEM at the Museum.” Hopefully, different from that poor monster, these re-used clips and re-written script andContinue reading “STEM @ the Museum: Educational Video”
Rethinking the product, aka. Pivoting
Today I spent my time re-writing a single lesson. But it’s SO MUCH BETTER! The change was sparked by one phone call, or voicemail message. I had previously pitched my initial course product to my daughter’s 3rd grade online school teacher, to get her insight and to see if she might be interested in tryingContinue reading “Rethinking the product, aka. Pivoting”
