growing your audience: reaching kids online with digital museum educational resources

Growing Your Audience: Reaching Kids Online with

Museum Educational Resources

Darren MilliganSmithsonian Center for Education

and Museum Studies

MCN2010October 29, 2010

Knowledge Begins in Wonder

Part 1 – Smithsonian in Your Classroom Magazine

“WHAT IS THE INTERNET?Today's Internet, in a physical sense, is a collection of sixty thousand linked computer networks that connect more than thirty million people. This system provides a platform for people worldwide to share information. When you connect to the Internet, you become part of a diverse electronic community rich in educational resources.”

Part 2 – Smithsonian IdeaLab

Let’s Check It Out!http://smithsonianeducation.org/universe

Part 3 – Opportunities, Challenges, Mistakes

(your choice)

Image by Flickr user eurleif, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License

Image by Flickr user Extra Ketchup, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License

Knowledge Begins in Wonder

Portrait of Samuel Pierpont Langley Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 15, Folder 8, 2002-12174.jpg

Children's Room in the South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 41 Folder 8

“We have ambitious plans to use new technologies to reach new audiences. … We have much to offer students and teachers in art, science, history, education, and culture. We want to give learners of all ages access to America’s treasures and our creative experts who bring them to life”

–G. Wayne Clough

Photograph by Eric Long, Smithsonian Institution

Richard Nixon Library, Nixon White House Photographs, compiled 01/20/1969 - 08/09/1974. National Archives and Records Administration, Local Identifier NLRN-WHPO-C5385-12A

The Creation of Sesame Street:

“There are pivotal moments in history when technology, national challenges and educational opportunities come together and something amazing happens.”

-Claudine Brown, Director of Education, Smithsonian Institution

Thank you.

Darren Milliganmilligand@si.edu@darrenmilligan

smithsonianeducation.org@smithsonianedu