New Technologies, Old Dilemmas - Ethical Issues in the Use and Abuse of New Technologies in Museums
8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #100, $40.00
So you think you are essentially an ethical person with sound moral judgment? Spend a morning tackling familiar scenarios and see how you measure up to the ethical challenges offered in the age of new technologies. As news sources decry the loss of personal freedoms in an information age, how do we as professionals step up to the challenge that we are, each of us, responsible for understanding the ethics of the decisions we make on a daily basis?
Chair: Holly Witchey, Director of New Media Initiatives, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
A Moving Museum Experience
8:00 AM-2:00 PM
Museum of Contemporary Art
Workshop #101, $60.00
Craft a moving experience by engaging and empowering children to learn about museum objects with Museum Movement Techniques. Based on theories that support using movement as a catalyst to learn, these techniques integrate kinesthetic learning and museum education pedagogy. This interactive workshop, led by the author of Museum Movement Techniques (discounted books available at workshop), Shelley Kruger Weisberg, allows participants to experience the benefits of this learning mode, including linking concepts across disciplines and developing facilitation skills. Continental breakfast served.
Bus departs from the Hilton Chicago Hotel (8th Street entrance) at 7:45 a.m. and returns to the Hilton at 2:00 p.m.
Chair: Denise Gray, Sr. Education Program Manager, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Labels: Engaging Visitors with Special Interpretive Devices in Art Museum Galleries
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #102, $150.00
Through a series of examples and activities, this workshop will focus on how to develop engaging, visitor-centered interpretive materials--from brainstorming the initial concept through evaluating simple prototypes--in art museums. Participants are encouraged to bring content from their own museums to make activities immediately relevant to their current work.
Chair: Matthew Sikora, Associate Educator, Evaluation, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
FULL - Judging Exhibitions from a Visitor-Centered Perspective
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #104, $150.00
Review, use, and discuss a framework for assessing exhibitions that will help you see the attributes of visitor-centered exhibitions and learn ways to incorporate them into your next museum exhibit project. Participants will probe the theoretical underpinnings of visitor-centeredness, analyze how to afford it, and see both positive examples and missed opportunites in real-life settings.
Chair: Beverly Serrell, Director, Serrell & Associates, Chicago, IL
FULL -Leadership Training for Collections Professionals
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #105, $60.00
Collections staff working in museums that are faced with resource constraints and multiple demands need to examine the best practices in meeting the museums mission and maintaining accountability and high ethical standards. Learn to lead from the middle by improving your skills in project management, team building, communications, negotiation, and managing change. Attendees will gain knowledge of key management concepts and practice problem-solving.
Chair: Martha Morris, Associate Professor of Museum Studies, George Washington University, Washington, DC
FULL - Writing Exhibition Labels: A Hands-On Best Practices Workshop
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #106, $150.00
Whoever your audience and whatever the subject matter, labels in an exhibition must be engaging, meaningful, and accessible. This hands-on workshop will explore the fundamentals of planning, writing, and testing effective exhibit labels. Beginners will be introduced to necessary skills, and experienced practitioners will gain new tools and perspectives for effectively producing this core component of successful exhibitions.
Chair: Barbara Becker, Independent Exhibit Planning & Development, , Berwyn, IL
International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection's Certified Institutional Protection Manager (CIPM) Workshop
8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #103, $195.00
The Certified Institutional Protection Manager designation is awarded to applicants demonstrating both education and experience in a management or administrative role who are responsible for cultural property protection, safety, and security. Management level courses are presented in a full day of classroom work, followed by a short on-site written exam. Coursework includes emergency preparedness, physical security, fire protection, legal considerations, workplace violence prevention, protection of collections, staff training, business continuity, and more.
Chair: George Martin, , National Gallery of Art, Oxon Hill, MD
Team Building Through Model Building
9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Chicago History Museum
Workshop #107, $75.00
Simple white models created by interdepartmental design teams can focus budget, time, and talent by pooling resources during the earliest phases of project development. Model building can galvanize teams around a shared vision and streamline decision-making and communication across the entire museum organization. This Hands-On session for beginners and experts combines actual model-building activities with workshop exercises and lively conversation intended to explore how model-making can align education, marketing, and visitor experience goals during project development.
Chair: Richard Faron, Director, Museum Explorer, Berwyn, IL
The Accreditation Self-Study: Secrets of a Successful Submission
9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #108,
Join the Accreditation Program staff and other colleagues working on Self-Study to discuss your questions, challenges, and tips for completing it. Learn the secrets of a successful Self-Study, from answering the questions to assembling the documents to mailing it in, and how to avoid common pitfalls from the staff who will be the first to read it. This free workshop is open only to Accreditation Program participants currently working on their Self-Study. Space is limited. To register contact Martha Sharma at msharma@aam-us.org.
Chair: Martha Sharma, Accreditation Coordinator, American Association of Museums, Washington, DC
FULL - Art Explorer - An Interactive Program on Impressionism and Postimpressionism: A Hands-On Workshop
12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Art Institute of Chicago
Workshop #109,
This hands-on workshop will allow participants to experiment with Art Explorer, the Art Institute of Chicagos latest Web unit on Impressionist and Postimpressionist art. At computer stations, users will conduct advanced searches, create scrapbooks with images and text, and view online applications for classroom teachers, students, docents, and general audiences. They will also explore, through coordinated, interactive exercises in the galleries, ways in which the online resource can be used to enrich gallery visits. Attendance is limited. To register, check off Workshop #109 on the Annual Meeting Registration Form.
Chair: David Stark, Director of Admin & Interpretive Media, Dept of Museum Education, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) and CDWA (Categories for the Description of Works of Art) Life: Practical Approaches to Creating, Disseminating, and Re-Purposing Museum Collection Information
12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
Workshop #110, $40.00
This workshop will explore creating standards-based information on museum collections, focusing on the data structure, data content, data value, and data interchange formats and related protocols for efficiently creating high-quality, user-friendly metadata. An overview of standards, real-life examples from the Getty and other museums, and classroom exercises will be included. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of interesting and/or problematic cataloging examples from their own collections.
Chair: Murtha Baca, Head Standards Prgm, J Paul Getty Research Inst., Los Angeles, CA
Shaping Outcomes: An Introduction to On-Line Training in Outcomes Based Planning and Evaluation
12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Harper Library
Workshop #111,
Training in outcomes-based planning and evaluation is offered through this walkthrough of a new online course called Shaping Outcomes developed by IMLS and IUPUI as a resource for the museum and library fields. Developers of the course will assist participants in creating their own outcomes-based logic models using Shaping Outcomes in a computer classroom at the University of Chicago. (Participants must provide their own transportation to the site, which is 6 miles from the conference center.) To register for this free workshop or to ask questions about the Shaping Outcomes contact outcomes@iupui.edu. Participation is limited to 12.
Chair: Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Director, Museum Studies ProgramIndiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
