ABSTRACT

Sponsored by the Museum Education Roundtable, this is volume 36, Number 3 of the Journal of Museum Education (JME) on Museum Educators and Technology Expanding Our Reach and Practice, published in the fall of 2011. This edition includes articles on the digital redux, the use of technology expanding the reach of the museum, collection datasets, game-based learning, online communities, using virtual technology and distance learning programs.

chapter |2 pages

From the Editors-in-Chief

Digital Redux

chapter |6 pages

From the Guest Editor

Museum Educators and Technology Expanding Our Reach and Practice

chapter |11 pages

Connections through Collections

A Lifecycle Overview of How Collection Datasets Are Utilized in Educational Projects

chapter |12 pages

Experiments in Web Storytelling

chapter |8 pages

The Meaning Makes It Fun

Game-Based Learning for Museums

chapter |9 pages

Cooking Up an Online Community

chapter |8 pages

Perspective

It’s How You Play the Game