Questions Raised by Department of Museum Education

Cyberpedagogy Presentation: A Framework for Documenting Education Programs
Questions Raised by Department of Museum Education

December 9, 2010

Staff present:
Hillary Cook (HC)
Annie Heckman (AH), contracted instructor
Karin Jacobsen (KJ)
Carolina Kauffman (CK)
Robin Schnur (RS)
Matt Woods (MW), contracted instructor


HC:
How did you frame this project to the teens?
Is this a feasible method for the whole program?  Capturing all student work?

RS:
Did it create a strange dynamic to focus on one group?

MW:
Maybe the kids should decide which group represents them?
Are there examples of how a social network could be used?

CK:
Did you compare to other teen programs?
Where did the reflections come from?
Should you have done interviews with the whole class in conversation?

MW:
or audio interviews?

KJ:
What are the uses to which this documentation could be put?  Are you putting it to any use?
If you can’t do it all, what type might best serve programatic goals?
Do you have research on what potential funders are looking for?
This is all anecdotal-- what can we do quantitatively?

CK:
Digitize?  Google docs?

MW:
How has this research project informed your personal practice/processes?



RS:
To what extent does the Teen Lab documentation experience support the goals of the cyberpedagogy course?

AH
What suggestions to you have for addressing the specific [developmental] needs of teens as an audience?

HC:
Teens need to feel ownership over the process.  How can we frame the experience so that they know it will benefit them?
What documentation product could be given to teens so that they would be excited to have?
Further suggestions to teens for what the uses could be for documentation?

new survey questions to add to powerpoint

As I've proposed them:

For teen pre-survey:
"Please rank your knowledge and skill of the following software and hardware: (followed by a list of all technology to be used in the pending project)"

For teen post-survey:
"Will you now bring your family or friends to the Art Institute?"
"Please rank your knowledge and skill of the following software and hardware: (followed by a list of all technology to be used in the now-complete project)"

For the educators and the staff maybe... maybe just a big question to propose to them:
"How does the program assess the achievement of its goal of teaching teens to 'help guide teens to
be critical thinkers, interpreters, and makers of culture'?" (quote taken from the AIC goals sent to ASM)

Ryan Education Center Presentation Draft

I dorked out and have spent the better part of the last two days (much to my boss's annoyance) constructing an overarching power point for our presentation to the Education Center Staff. This power point (less some formatting that does not carry over well) is currently in our google docs folder if you would like to look over the content.

- Next class, Wednesday 12/1, I will want to walk you all through this presentation, confirm some assumptions and and fill in some gaps.

- Depending on when the actual presentation is scheduled, I may or may not be able to attend so I want to make sure someone else feels comfortable talking through this 10 slide power point.

Questions and comments welcome.

Notes from Class Discussion Nov 17

Presenting December 8th?
Julianne will check with Matt & Annie, email them tomorrow.

Presenting to the department during the day:
Michelle will check with Hillary.
Second or third week in DecemberDays that work for us: Thursday, the 9th.

What will our presentation look like?
Series of recommendations, methodology, a document.
Essentially the same product, packaged differently for different audience.

TEEN LAB
Follow up on files
Alex will crafting recommendation file

What is the purpose of the documentation for the students?
 For the teens:
Gather everyone's projects together and offer a disk

Would like to present on the 8th

STAFF
Recommendations document
One project in-depth
Photo narrative: powerpoint: Catherine (one group-- hopefully some quotes, write about content)
Video interviews

Interview questions?
- What was your favorite aspect of the animation project?
- What's something you've learned in teen lab that you've taken home?

We will finish interview questions via email.
Take a look at google docs
Post 2 questions for kids
Post 1 question for instructor
on cyberped group discussion
by Friday

teen lab survey stuff

Sorry dudes... I can transcribe this if you can't read my handwriting! These are my ideas about the existing teen surveys...

Monday November 15th

So I asked Matt and Annie if there was any documentation of the teens past projects, and they directed me to the Ning.  I "inventoried" what I could find on the ning, and this is pretty much it (and most of this is from Annie's ning blog):

• 4 photos, the only other photo documents are from Catherine
• one worksheet
• a post reviewing Jitish Kallat's work in the AIC
• Make-Up assignment possibilities

Matt has posted a flash animation of the students called "Teen Lab Studio Ballet" from the day the students learned to create stop animations.  It could be useful.  So conclusion: there isn't any early documentation of the work students were doing before we entered the classroom.  Also, there is no online "database" for their worksheets and assignments, other than what is already on the Ning.  

As for the students blogs (which hopefully are being updated TODAY because most students have finally started shooting photos for their projects) some of the students have posted nothing, but here is the average information I could find:

• a make-up assignment from last week
• one update on the group project
• questions they had to formulate for the Skype with Jitish Kallat

I will email Hillary about the Skype, and hopefully she will send that our way!!

Also, I believe I have chosen a group for us to focus on.  This group is telling the story of a penguin who lives in a black and white world that is sad and boring.  The penguin stumbles into the color world and is much happier, excited and really enjoys the world of color.  But it must return to its home, and back in the black and white world the penguin starts to spread the idea of color.  Suddenly everything starts changing and in the end the penguins dreary world turns colorful.  Kind of like that movie, Pleasantville.

It's pretty straightforward.  These students (Sophie, Alisha and Khiry) are very far along in their process, though like the other groups have not uploaded their work to the Ning yet.  However, they have planned out their process, their background has been done for a few weeks now, they have a very clean layout and look to their whole piece.  This was the group I was thinking about when it was brought up that we should focus on one group last class, and when I asked Matt and Annie what groups were moving along well, they immediately mentioned this group.  But we can talk about this more in class Wednesday.  

stuff form hillary

Hey all,

Here's a message form Hillary regarding those files not working when forwarded from Catherine from Lauren:

Hi Michelle,

I have attached here an example of a reflection/evaluation form we give the teens at the end of the semester (this one is from spring 2010). I also attached a blank pre-survey (given to the teens on the first day of this semester) and an excel spreadsheet with all the responses from these pre-surveys. Let me know if you still have problems with any of the files, or if you need anything else. I don't have everyone's email addresses, so can you share with the class? Not everyone has all of these documents.


Thanks!
Hillary


I uploaded all those attachments to Google docs and shared them with everyone. Lemme know if you didn't get an invite or access.