Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

All social media is utterly native to mobile devices. Microsoft Office Mobile is preinstalled on Windows Phone 8 and is available for select models of iPhone and Android phones as well. OnLive Desktop is an interesting free app that provides a Microsoft Windows 7 desktop experience on an iPad or Android tablet.

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Phone NSF PowerPoint Mobile 67

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. Bilingual interpretation expands the way visitors experience and perceive museums, shifting their emotional connection to the institutions.

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Intergenerational Museum NSF Facilitation 53

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. Tags: children's museums design business models.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

If we were scientists, we'd have documentation of each experiment, each publishable result, each improved-upon discovery. Last week, I spoke with Jim Spadaccini ( Ideum ) and Wendy Pollock ( ASTC ) about their experiences creating this site. Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? ,

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NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20