Museums and the Web 2007 - A Teacher’s Insight
At 10 years and running this conference and it’s participants keeps pushing the boundaries of the voice of museums on the web. This year there were some stand out presentations and papers covering a wide variety of topics.
We Are Your Audience
This session was fantastic. Rachel Horwitz and Cathy Intemann, a librarian and a teacher respectively, from McKinley Middle School in
Albuquerque, NM, gave attendees an insider’s view into the classroom experience and what teachers and students look for in terms of web interaction.
“We propose to demonstrate how teachers align instruction to standards, how we choose a Web site from an Internet search, and how we integrate the museum Web sites into the classroom lesson to broaden and enhance instruction. We want our students to wonder at and wander through the museums of the world.”
The paper and the presentation were supplemented with a survey the two presenters took of their fellow colleagues at their school.
You can read their paper here:
We Are Your Audience