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Math @ the Museum

This month I’m working with a 4th grade teacher to present a series of live-zoom classes for her online students exploring STEM @ the Museum, three Mondays in a row. This has been a fantastic experience for me, in that I’m getting to work directly with a teacher to identify the content that works bestContinue reading “Math @ the Museum”

My Top 5 Favorite Online Museum Platforms

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”

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”