Virtual Museums
An electronic door to a visit on the Information
Superhighway, a virtual museum
is an organized collection of electronic artifacts and information resources.
Things
that might be included are paintings, drawings, photographs, diagrams, graphs,
recordings, video segments, newspaper articles, transcripts of interviews,
numerical
data, and any other items that can be saved in a digital format.
Types of Virtual Museums
Learning Museums--online learning resources which invite exploration
and investigation.
Marketing Museums--marketing vehicles for sales as a major goal.
In this class, you may select to create either type of
museum depending on your job
requirements and interest.
Characteristics of a Learning Museum
-
substantial
collection
-
rich
and varied offerings
-
inviting
lobby or entrance
-
invites
repeat visits
-
varied
learning activities
Virtual Museums
foster active, student-centered or customer centered learning.
They offer opportunities for real research into subjects or products.
Virtual
museums place students in problem-solving situations thus fostering higher
order thinking skills. They are
global in perspective and set up in the way that
a "real" museum would be organized.
They are dynamic, multidisciplinary,
multi-sensory location on the web that are constantly updated and feature
appeals to different learning styles and interests.
This learning tool should
be looked at as a way to share treasures of learning with a much wider
audience
that the traditional classroom.
Source:
Summary of two articles by Jamie McKenzie found at
http://www.fno.org/museum/museweb.html
and
http://www.fno.org/museum/museweb2.html
Resources
for Virtual Museum design issues.
Oldies
& Goodies--School Museum List and Site
Building
Onramps to the Information Superhighway:
Designing, Implementing, and Using Local Museum Infrastructure
Home Sweet Home:
Creating WWW Pages Which Deliver
Eighteen tips to consider when creating a Virtual Museum web experience.
Some Samples
of Virtual Museums
Actual Museums present on the Web
Bellingham
Antique Radio Museum
Field Museum
Palaeolithic
Painted Cave
SCORE List of Virtual Museum Projects
Virtual
Museum--The Hebrew People
Big
Bear Valley...Back Then
European
Immigrant Journey
From Foot
to Flight
President's
Day Museum
The Age of
Enlightenment
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