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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Find the Future: The Game.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.” You were born to do this!”

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! They thought, wouldn't it be interesting to create a game to get people in the library who may not have ever come? My focus is on how children learn science.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

For example, a baseball basket could include a ball signed by a famous player, a jersey, and season tickets to home games. Tech basket Many people prioritize keeping up with the latest tech releases or having the best new gadgets. For example, you could create a bundle with art, history, and science museum passes.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Game Friday: Games for Lurkers

Museum 2.0

In the spirit of this sentiment, this week we look at games for lurkers, that is, games people watch. Games people watch? Isn’t the point to play games? I’d guess, in this country at least, more people watch games than play them. In museums, we always assume that everyone wants to get their hands dirty and “do it.”

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