New and emerging technologies present challenges and opportunities for museums and informal educators. Immersive online exhibits can create compelling visitor experiences, extending the reach and mission of museums and other cultural institutions, while new collaborative tools can help provide engaging environments allowing museums, communities, and the public to work together in meaningful ways.
Join the Cultural Management Program at the University of Victoria for this five-day immersion learning opportunity November 14 - 18, 2006: The New Web: Interactive and Collaborative Technologies in the Museum World Over the past ten years, museum developers have created a wide-range of online exhibits and interactive environments. With a decade of experience, museums have been classifying and evaluating different types of exhibits and best practices and standards have emerged. This course will explore the ways in which effective online exhibits are created. Established development tools such as Flash and QuickTime, along with database software, scripting and markup languages will also be examined. In addition, the course will look forward and investigate a new wave of collaborative and community-based technologies which promise greater visitor interaction and contribution, along with the possibilities and potential pitfalls that blogs, forums, collaborative sites, podcasts, and wikis present. Instructor: Jim Spadaccini is the founder of Ideum (www.ideum.com), a multimedia design and production firm which creates interactive online exhibits and Websites. Over the last six years, his firm has worked with a diverse set of clients including, NASA, the National Park Service, Computer History Museum, California Science Center, Chabot Space and Science Center, the Tech Museum of Innovation, Baseball Hall of Fame, the Museum of the African Diaspora, UC Berkeley, among others. Before forming Ideum, Jim was the Director of Interactive Media at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Please register by: October 14 Fee: $610, including a $60 materials fee (Canadian funds. Credit and non-credit participation options). For more details on this course: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/ha488h-web.aspx Visit our web site!! http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/home.aspx Joy Davis Program Director, Cultural Management Programs Continuing Studies, University of Victoria PO Box 3030 Stn CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3N6 250 721 8462 Cultural Resource Management Program http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp Aboriginal Language Revitalization Program http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr Intercultural Education and Training Program http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/iet
