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Collaboration & Engagement: Museums & the Web 2013 Takeaways

April 27, 2013by jolifanta 2 Comments

Games, curation, design thinking, more games, crowdsourcding, theater, humor, and 3D printing. These were some of the topics of great salons, discussions, workshops, and sessions, at this year’s Museums & […]

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art, education, museums, technology
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5 types of user experience, by John Falk

September 19, 2009by jolifanta 3 Comments

This week the OCLC held a Digital Forum West mini conference/symposium at the Getty. I noticed that John Falk was the keynote speaker and weaseled my way in to see […]

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education, museums, research, technology
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Visual Literacy for College Freshmen

September 16, 2009by jolifanta 1 Comment

At U Penn this year, incoming Freshmen are taking a twist on the old classic summer reading project. Instead of reading a novel together, they are looking at a painting, […]

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art, education, history, pop culture

Managing Expectations in Museums

April 24, 2009by jolifanta 1 Comment

Following on the Museums and the Web conference last week, Nina Simon made an excellent observation in a great blog post Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their […]

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art, education, museums

Debit Card Fraud

August 13, 2008by jolifanta 2 Comments

This post begins with a big old sigh: >> S I G H << I have been had. I don’t know by whom, or how, but someone has been using […]

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education, pince nez

Blogging in Museums (as discussed at MW2008)

April 9, 2008by jolifanta 6 Comments

It’s been a while since I have posted (long enough for me to not notice WordPress updated their interface – ack!) and what better inspiration to get me writing again […]

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art, education, museums, technology

My First Mandarin Class

January 9, 2008by jolifanta 1 Comment

I had my first Mandarin Chinese class last night and it was awesome! I learned a very cool tidbit of language history (a secret passion of mine). The English phrase […]

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education, research

Digital Gaming Teaches Kids in Schools

January 9, 2008by jolifanta Leave a comment

Here is an awesome blog post from Global Kidz about the things students are learning inside and around digital games, and how they learn about social resistance and working the […]

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education, research, technology

Past Exhibitions Archives

January 7, 2008by jolifanta 1 Comment

Yesterday I drove behind the Orange Curtain to catch the last day of the exhibition Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury at Orange County’s gem […]

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art, education, history, los angeles, museums, research, technology

New Year’s Reading

January 3, 2008by jolifanta 3 Comments

I am gradually coming out of my December hibernation (during which I did a lot of knitting and cooking) and have been scanning the ethernet over the past couple of […]

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education, technology

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