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  1. Last day to apply for the online workshop on interpretive writing for art museums educators. www.museum-ed.org
  2. 5 session online workshop on interpretive writing for art museum educators. It's free! Apply at www.museum-ed.org
  3. Museum-Ed needs pointers for writing teacher's guides. Send advice to krisw@museum-ed.org & we'll make a wiki of ideas on www.museum-ed.org
  4. P. Samis talk about museum visitors recalls a Falk sound bite: museums are always ABOUT SOMETHING, also should be FOR SOMEBODY. #icm2009
  5. RT@zbartrout. Not only are people writing more, they are actually good at it! Great Clive Thompson Wired article: http://tinyurl.com/naar67
  6. Meeting the cultural heritage technology students at the Italian University in Lugano, Switzerland.
  7. Also great: Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibits, ed. McLean and Pollock.
  8. Reading John Falk's new book: Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience, and gaining lots of insight from HIS experience.
  9. Just posted a report on a cell phone audio tour survey, www.museum-ed.org. Link is on front page just about the picture.
  10. Just posted evaluation of visitors’ engagement with interpretive experiences in Walker’s permanent collection >http://tinyurl.com/nvnyqu
  11. Posted Classroom Realities: Results of the 2007 National Survey of Teachers on Museum-Ed >http://tinyurl.com/kq6kao. Download it anytime.
  12. Posted all the notes from AAM 2009 roundtable on museums working with schools and teachers >http://tinyurl.com/men56c
  13. Just posted the results from AAM's 2009 label writing competition on Museum-Ed >http://tinyurl.com/n9prgu
  14. Survey up on www.museum-ed.org about cell phone tours. If you have these tours–fill out the survey. We promise to compile & report results.
  15. Finally getting around to reading Museums & the Web papers. Russo and Peacock's "Social Media" explains so much>http://tinyurl.com/qqqmby
  16. Report on British art education has good news about museums' (termed galleries in the report) contributions>http://tinyurl.com/c3b6vk
  17. Well, to say the modern collection at Chicago deserves it's own wing is an understatement, but it's all I can think of to say.
  18. Cy Twombly gallery a revelation in the new modern wing at the Art Institute of Chicago.
  19. Seen in the air on the way to Chicago: Walker Art Center made the list of 30 must see museums in this month's Sky magazine.
  20. First glimpse of the new, light-filled modern wing at the Art Institute of Chicago last night. Beautiful!