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Please share with colleagues: The course outline is now available (see below) for this innovative blended online/on-campus learning opportunity for professionals and volunteers working in museums, heritage sites, and cultural centres. The registration deadline is August 18, so register today! Museum Information Management: Knowledge, Management and Transformation HA 488N (1.5 units); blended online/on-campus offering Today's museums and cultural institutions are strengthened by their creative use of the wealth of digital information/media they collect, manage, preserve and share. Explore the dimensions, strategic value, and potential uses of this diverse range of digital resources and learn how to strategically harness these resources to improve the effectiveness of your cultural institution and its internal and online information assets. This engaging and interactive course provides you with the opportunity to examine your institution's information opportunities and develop a project plan to act on one or more of them. Whether you work with education, collections, research, programming, marketing and audience development, or management within a museum or heritage setting, this course strengthens your ability to: * Identify the myriad of information resources managed across your institution * Recognize the growing strategic value of collection-related digital resources for your institution and to the communities it serves * Define the uses of major software systems used to manage digital information resources (e.g. collection management, digital asset management, content management) * Identify opportunities and strategies for collecting and integrating digital information resources to enhance your website, exhibits and collections * Identify resources (human and other) required to support sustainable museum technology projects * Develop a formal technology project proposal/plan that can be used internally or for obtaining external funding Dates: Online component: September 15 - October 3; On-campus component: October 6 - 8, 2008 See draft course outline below for further information about each component. Please register by: August 18 (late registrations accepted if space permits) To register in this course please visit https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/forms/crm/online_reg.aspx. Fee: CDN$641, including a CDN$70 materials fee (Canadian funds, credit and non-credit participation options) A CDN$170 registration deposit is required with each registration form. Instructors: Scott Sayre, PhD and Kris Wetterlund, Principals, Sandbox Studios/Museum411 Inc., work with museums to plan, create, manage and assess education programs and technology projects. Scott Sayre has over a dozen years of experience guiding museums in the application of business and educational technologies. Currently a founder and principal at Sandbox Studios Inc., he previously served as the Art Museum Image Consortium's Director of Member Services and US Operations. From 1991 to 2002 he was the Director Media and Technology at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts where he formed and led the museum's Interactive Media Group in the development of ArtsConnectEd.org, the MIA's Web site <http://artsMIA.org<http://artsmia.org/>> and sixteen interactive multimedia gallery kiosks. Sayre held the position of Applications Developer at the University of Minnesota's Telecommunications Development Center. He has a Doctorate in Education from the University of Minnesota and a M,Ed, and B.A. in Visual Communications Technology from Bowling Green State University. Kris Wetterlund worked with teachers as an art museum educator for the past ten years, in the education department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and as Director of Education at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Wetterlund received her degree in art education from the University of Minnesota and is certified as a K- 12 Minnesota teacher. She has served as team leader in the St. Paul Public School's writing of elementary art curriculum, and has authored art educational resources online, for both the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Minnesota Museum of American Art, including the award- winning Get the Picture: Thinking about Photographs. Currently Wetterlund is designing and implementing a Minnesota-wide two year teacher training program for ArtsConnectEd, an online partnership between The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Draft course outline: On-line: Week 1-3 Week 1 The Changing Role of Museums and Information Technology 1) Presentation a) Course Overview - objectives, outline, assignments b) Defining museum information. c) The importance of information management in the long-term success of an institution. Expanding the definition, expanding the scope of museum information Week 2 Looking at Systems 1) Presentation a. Politics of museum information b. Major museum systems 2) Interview with Steve Jacobsen - Constituency Management 3) Interview with Dan Dennehy - Digitization and Digital Asset Management Week 3 Metadata and Standards 1) Presentation a. Content, Data and Metadata 2) Interview with Angela Spanazee - Introduction to Standards 3) Interview with Susan Chun - Steve Tagging project On Campus: Week 4 (three days only) Day 1 Project Planning and Information Policy In class activities 1) Lecture/Activity: Resource Assessment 2) Lecture - Developing a project proposal 3) Student and Instructor project meetings and work time 4) Student proposal idea presentation/discussion 5) Discussion of Readings 6) Work time with instructor consulting Day 2 Open Source, Interchange and Sustainability In class activities 1) Lecture: Data Interchange, Collaboration and Sharing 2) Case Study: ArtsConnectEd 3) Remote guest speaker Q&A - Guest speaker will be selected based on student interest. 4) Work time with instructor check-in Day 3 New Technologies and Multimedia and Usability In class activities 1) ArtsConnectEd Usability Testing 2) Student Presentations 3) Lecture: Web 2.0 and beyond 4) Discussion of Readings Enrollment options allow you to choose to take courses either to enhance professional development or build academic credit. Individual course descriptions and registration forms are available by contacting us at crmp at uvcs.uvic.ca or by visiting our web site at: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/home.aspx For more information, please contact: Anissa Paulsen, Program Coordinator Cultural Resource Management Program Continuing Studies, University of Victoria PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3N6 Tel: 250 721-6119 Fax: 250 721-8774 Email: apaulsen at uvcs.uvic.ca Visit our Web site! http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp To receive monthly email updates, contact crmp at uvcs.uvic.ca
