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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. As in any online community, ScratchR has spectators, joiners, collectors, critics, and creators. What make Scratch users come to the online community?

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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ExhibitFiles is a community-based site launched last month to encourage the documentation, sharing, and exploration of exhibits and the exhibit design process. The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. A community site in its truest sense, where anyone can post a review or case study.

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