Hi Karl, > > Dunno what the content of your course is per se, though if its a processes > course rather than a specific technology focused course, perhaps these > suggestions will be of use to you... > > First, I'll send you an an old paper from the SIGGRRAPH educators > conference off-list hat covers CAROL, work my colleague Gordon Goodman and > I did for roughly seven years (this was written in about the middle) that > discusses a long-running practice we had of having our web development > classes work with museums. You may find it helpful. (Anyone else wants to > see it without having to dig through the ACM's online library, just lemme > know and I'll send you the PDF) > > Second, I'd suggest that you take the approach, rather than building an > app specifically for this museum, of building an app that is a more > customizable app for museums and/or an html5 content management system plus > phone gap style approach that allows any museum to build a gallery-style > app with a common core feature set that many museum s would want. This > then allows your work to be Open, while the museum's app they learn to > build with you can remain closed, and can "print" to both IOS and Android > as a final end product. What's more you get to train the museum staff to > maintain, add sections to, or change the content of their app at will, > without being permanently tethered to you and your university. Most > museums don't want to "maintain code," they do want to be able to spin up > new "exhibits" or new "chapters" of their existing content. > > Third, You might even look at having your "Museum App Building Engine" > have the ability to scrape their website and then let them take some or all > of the content from it. FOSS@RIT, via our currently dormant civx.usproject > has significant scraping capabilities across a wide range of > technologies, including javascript and other more challenging formats. > That's a FOSS project and I'm sure Remy would be happy to help you class > either fork it or point them to some of the tech they use under the hood to > use if a fork is more than what's needed. > > Fourth, I dunno what your cross campus relationships are, or what kind of > students you get in your classes, but considering that this is driven by > the "Presidential Fellow for Arts, Education and Community" you might want > to tink about teaming up with an interactive emdia/web design class and or > just reaching out to those departments to offer independent studies to some > of their student to work on the project with you and your students. > > Hope that's all of some use to you. > > >
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