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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? So if NSF is funding it, is it only for science exhibitions? Why is that?

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. For internal web managers, tagging also improves accessibility for people who are blind by adding text descriptors to images so that site visitors understand the content of those images. The games on the website at my museum are old.

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

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For example, check out this discussion about the Monte Carlo method, Pi, and what it means to be forty. The only criticism I have of ScratchR's design is that there is no way to embed Scratch projects in other places on the Web. The adults aren't solely there as monitors--many are creators. ScratchR is really well-designed.