In this special episode from the American Association of Museums Annual Conference, Jonathan sits down with Nina Simon, author of the Museum 2.0 blog, who shares a fascinating approach to exhibit creation that turns the process inside out — and it involves the use of three-dimensional online worlds. Nina also shares her vision for museum experiences that adapt to visitor's interests in real time.

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About the Guest:
Nina Simon joined the Tech Museum of Innovation in October 2007 to curate their Tech Virtual Museum Workshop project, a collaborative, distributed approach to exhibition design that merges online, Second Life, and real-world content development. She also maintains Museum 2.0, a blog about ways that museums can integrate social networks, user-focused design, and etc. into their institutions.

Nina Simon, author of Museum 2.0, at AAM in Denver, CO.

In this special episode from the American Association of Museums Annual Conference in Denver, Jonathan steps into a voting booth created by the Liberty Science Center. Using a touch-screen voting interface, museum visitors in Jersey City, NJ, see — with graphical results tallied in real time — how they match up to current presidential candidates and other “voters” on scientific issues. Wayne LaBar of the Liberty Science Center walks Jonathan through the experience and its context.

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Wayne LaBar demonstrating the virtual voting booth that is currently in action at the Liberty Science Center.

About the Guest:
Wayne LaBar is Vice President of Exhibitions and Featured Experiences at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

In this extended edition of the Real Time Minute, Jonathan shares excerpts of a conversation with four museum professionals using three-dimensional virtual worlds to conduct meaningful learning activities in real time.

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Chris Lawrence, Nora McCartney, Paul Sparrow, and David Klevan at AAM in Denver.

Show Notes:

In this special edition from the American Association of Museums Annual Conference in Denver, Jonathan catches up with four museum professionals immediately after their panel session entitled, “Charting New Territory in Virtual Worlds”. The conversation featured Chris Lawrence, Nora McCartney, Paul Sparrow, and David Klevan.

About the Guests:
Paul Sparrow is Vice President/Broadcasting and Programs at the Newseum.

Chris Lawrence is Supervisor of Distance Learning Programs at the New York Hall of Science.

Nora McCartney is Educational Technology Curriculum Manager at the New York Hall of Science.

David Klevan is Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Outreach Technology at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Related links:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“Witnessing History: A Teen Second Life Exhibit” - Video on YouTube
Newseum
New York Hall of Science
PowerUp the Game

During the panel session on virtual worlds, Chris Lawrence acted as a human “applause meter” to gauge audience interest in various topics the panel was prepared to discuss. Seeing a live demo of virtual worlds in action topped the charts.

In this “old school” episode, Jonathan visits a place from his childhood to reveal one of his first learning moments about non-verbal communication — a lesson that applies to the real-time virtual classroom.

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SPECIAL NOTES: Meet Jonathan Finkelstein online during the following upcoming events:

• Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning Conference Online: October 17-18, 2007. Based on the popular series of Jossey-Bass guidebooks on online teaching and learning, the OTL Conference Online brings all of the books’ authors — as well as a community of hundreds of professionals worldwide — right to your desktop for interactive online sessions, discussions, hands-on learning, strategy swapping, and networking. Jonathan will lead an interactive session, and host several other author panel sessions. All registrants receive their choice of 3 books at no additional charge (including Jonathan’s Learning in Real Time).




• Podcast Online Workshop: Producing Great Audio and Video Podcasts: December 3, 7 and 12, 2007. In this three-part live online workshop - taking place over a two week period - Jonathan Finkelstein guides participants as they learn and practice the practical skills and techniques needed to produce high-quality, highly engaging audio and video podcasts.

In this special edition of the Real Time Minute, Jonathan showcases an interview with Stephanie Eskins about her real-time online work with the Smithsonian, and her participation in the certification program on "leading effective live online events" that Jonathan leads. The interview was conducted by Susan Manning and Dan Balzer, hosts of the LT Green Room.

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(SPECIAL NOTE: Jonathan’s next two offerings of the LearningTimes CSTP workshop on “Leading Effective Live Online Events” begin August 17, 2007 and September 28, 2007. Join us, live online!)

In this “moving” edition of the Real Time Minute, Jonathan notes at least one similarity between experienced drivers and effective live online facilitators: the natural way in which they process “dashboard” signals as they lead their car — or learners — from Point A to Point B.



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(SPECIAL NOTE: Jonathan’s next two offerings of the LearningTimes CSTP workshop on “Leading Effective Live Online Events” begin July 17, 2007 and August 17, 2007. Join us, live online!)

In this extended edition of the Real Time Minute, Jonathan sits down with Richard Urban, Michael Twidale, and Paul Marty for a conversation about real-time, online experiences by and for museums and learners inside Second Life, a three-dimensional, socially-constructed virtual world.

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Richard Urban, Michael Twidale, and Paul Marty at the LearningTimes
booth at Museums and the Web, April 2007.

In this extended edition, Jonathan explores real-time, online experiences by and for museums and learners inside virtual worlds like Second Life. The conversation featured Richard Urban, Paul Marty and Michael Twidale, authors of a paper entitled, “A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums“, which is part of the proceedings of the 11th annual “Museums and the Web” conference held in San Francisco in April 2007.

About the Guests:
Richard Urban is a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Paul Marty, Ph.D. is assistant professor at the College of Information at Florida State University .

Michael Twidale is associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michael is Rich Urban’s doctoral advisor, and in the past was Paul Marty’s doctoral advisor as well.

(SPECIAL NOTE: Jonathan’s next CSTP workshop offering of “Leading Effective Live Online Events” begins June 1, 2007. Join us, live online!)

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