It's difficult to name only one as each has its own characteristic so I am going to cheat a bit and give you an idea of what attracts me in museums and examples of museums that exhibit these characteristics.
I am particularly sensitive to the architecture and atmosphere - spaces/ light and how the different objects are brought to attention or highlighted. One of the most vibrant museums I have visited is Te Papa, in Wellington, NZ. It is an eclectic mix, combining the visual appeal of unexpected colours and angles with interactivity and multimedia. Past history blended with high technology.
I also love the non-linear multimedia layers on a timeline, patterns or associations which bring together various perspective around the same theme or paintings together with quotes from writers, philosophers, a recorded narrative or a short film. A recent exhibition called the Nature of Things at the Modern Art Museum or the setup of the Museum of Portuguese Language in Sao Paulo are such examples.
The guiding narrative should include interesting questions, which make you better observe details, and/or episodes that illustrate and relate the artifacts or people in their social and personal context.
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Hmmm...did not manage to get to the elluminate session in time...but here is my contribution.
1. What is your earliest memory of an educational technology?
Pencil, china ink and brush, calligraphy notebooks
2. Who is the most influential scholar in educational technology you can name?
Ted Nelson, Alan Kay, Stuart Moulthrop, Charles Peirce, Umberto Eco
3. What is an important event in the history of educational technology?
World Wide Web
4. What are some of the historical lenses we can use to look at the history of EdTech?
Social semiotics
1. What is your earliest memory of an educational technology?
Pencil, china ink and brush, calligraphy notebooks
2. Who is the most influential scholar in educational technology you can name?
Ted Nelson, Alan Kay, Stuart Moulthrop, Charles Peirce, Umberto Eco
3. What is an important event in the history of educational technology?
World Wide Web
4. What are some of the historical lenses we can use to look at the history of EdTech?
Social semiotics
A good resource for parents and teachers is Digizen
http://www.digizen.org/
by the Childnet International Organization
http://www.childnet-int.org/
http://www.digizen.org/
by the Childnet International Organization
http://www.childnet-int.org/
Deidre..I can imagine how you must have felt. I once had a similar pb when an interview about blogs I gave to an online French teaching journal was inadequately referenced in a blog post.
A teacher had copied half of it, mentioning my name but not acknowledging the original source or blockquoting the content that was not his. By adding his own ideas following mine and pointing to links different from those given in the interview, he completely distorted the meaning of what I had said.
Fortunately, I wrote to the editor, who contacted him, explained what he had done and asked him to remove it, which he did.
A teacher had copied half of it, mentioning my name but not acknowledging the original source or blockquoting the content that was not his. By adding his own ideas following mine and pointing to links different from those given in the interview, he completely distorted the meaning of what I had said.
Fortunately, I wrote to the editor, who contacted him, explained what he had done and asked him to remove it, which he did.
I agree with you Cynthia that the barrier between real/virtual/professional/personal is getting very thin indeed. Just to illustrate, I have recently introduced and connected my niece to an ex-student of mine, whom I had not seen for years but who contacted me through Facebook, and an online friend/collaborator as they all happen to be living in the same country and city.
This kind of connections used to exist way before the internet but were much more difficult as we often lost track of people/places and it was time-consuming (sending letters or phoning people).
Nowadays, I have a number of students and ex-students, family members, people with whom I work f2f and virtually who have added me to Facebook and Orkut (the Brazilian social networking site bought by Google). Just like you, I tell my students about the importance of what they post online so that their present virtual identity does not haunt them in the future and refrain from posting anything which is not of interest to the world at large.
This kind of connections used to exist way before the internet but were much more difficult as we often lost track of people/places and it was time-consuming (sending letters or phoning people).
Nowadays, I have a number of students and ex-students, family members, people with whom I work f2f and virtually who have added me to Facebook and Orkut (the Brazilian social networking site bought by Google). Just like you, I tell my students about the importance of what they post online so that their present virtual identity does not haunt them in the future and refrain from posting anything which is not of interest to the world at large.