[MCN-L] Space Shuttle Simulator

2008-11-11 Thread Sharon Yanai
Dear friends, Please don't see this as a commercial but as a recommendation for something which works(!) and is very cheap to adopt for visitors on Science Centers. At MadaTech - Israel National Museum of Science we started to run a 3D space shuttle simulator which simulates NASA Missions

[MCN-L] Armchair Delegates Unite!

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Urban
Hi everyone, I'm sorry I won't be able to join some of you in Washington, D.C. this year. Since I'll be an armchair delegate this year, I've posted some thoughts on Musematic (http://musematic.net/?p=533). I'm guessing that I'm not the only one who wasn't able to make it to D.C. this

[MCN-L] New Omeka release

2008-11-11 Thread Sheila Brennan
Hi everyone, I wanted to share with you that the Center for History and New Media released an upgraded version of Omeka (http://omeka.org) , our free and open-source web publishing platform for collections-based research of all kinds, one that bridges the scholarly, library, and museum worlds

[MCN-L] Museum Education Salary Inquiry

2008-11-11 Thread Susan Fishman-Armstrong
Sorry for the cross-posting... We are a small staffed university archaeological repository. I am the only full time employee. One of my duties is public outreach and it has grown so big that we are looking at funding for a full time educator. We have multiple traveling teaching trunks and an