By Cath on 25 October, 2012
Introducing… The Museum Game – a video introduction, curriculum links, and a booking form :) Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Program, The Museum Game | Tagged children, critical thinking, culture, engagement, English, exhibitions, games, history, interactive, photographs
By Cath on 30 May, 2012
Presenting… Tricia Meier, teacher of a Year 5/6 class at Curtin Primary School, talking about her and her class’ experience of playing Sembl at the Museum. Read more >
Posted in Program, The Museum Game | Tagged Arts, children, competition, critical thinking, engagement, English, exhibitions, games, history, inclusion, interactive, resonance, teaching, technology
By Cath on 15 May, 2012
Yesterday the group of kids who played Sembl on paper last September returned to the Museum to play the prototype game *on iPad*. Cath reports on their response. Read more >
Posted in Objects, The Museum Game | Tagged children, collaboration, engagement, exhibitions, games, interactive, iPad, social learning, technology
![Museum’s iPad game Create[s] World](http://nma.gov.au/blogs/education/files/2011/12/NMA-aerial-150x150.jpg)
By Cath on 2 December, 2011
Cath shares an overview of the Museum’s forthcoming real-time multiplayer iPad game, and an update on work-in-progress. First presented in person to the Apple University Consortium conference Create World 2011, it is available here as a PDF. Read more >
Posted in Professional learning, The Museum Game | Tagged critical thinking, difference, engagement, games, technology
By Cath on 20 November, 2011
Sembl is all about connectedness – and I love that the kids who helped us playtest totally got that. Maybe by playing Sembl we really will save the world :) With that in mind, I present a music video from the wonderful Symphony of Science. Read more >
Posted in Inspiration, The Museum Game | Tagged big picture, engagement, music, video
By Cath on 30 September, 2011
This week we hosted a group of 23 local students, aged 9 to 11, to playtest Sembl and share their experience with us. It was very useful for us, and fun all round, so thanks, 4/5TM from Curtin Primary. Read more >
Posted in Program, The Museum Game | Tagged children, engagement, games, iPads, mobile
By Susannah on 11 May, 2011
How do museums represent history through their displays? How do museum educators help large groups of students who want to explore this question? Susannah reports on a recent visit by 170 year 7 students. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Objects, Program | Tagged critical thinking, engagement, meta, museology, teaching
By Jess on 13 April, 2011
Yesterday, Susannah and I facilitated a Not just Ned: Irish Migration Stories education program with a fantastic bunch of year 3 – 4 students. After the students had completed the discovery trail through the exhibition, we came back to our education rooms for a reflective exercise, which we learnt from Claudette Bateup our previous manager, to discover what [...] Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Inspiration | Tagged engagement
By Susannah on 17 March, 2011
Sometimes an exhibition-in-progress is more interesting to students (and educators!) than a fully finished one. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Inspiration, Objects, Program | Tagged children, conservation, engagement, museology, teaching, wonder
By Cath on 15 December, 2010
Yesterday we enjoyed some time with Curtis Taylor, whose short films appear in the wonderful Yiwarra Kuju (One Road) multi-touch table. Curtis is from Martu country, the western region of the stock route. Below are notes from some of the team about the visit. TRISH: A heartfelt thanks to Curtis for sharing his background knowledge [...] Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Inspiration | Tagged art, engagement, history, Indigenous, real, storytelling, Western Australia
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