Last September we quietly launched the alpha version of Go Play, a site that Powerhouse was commissioned to produce for the then Communities NSW (now Office of Communities). Go Play was built to address the problem of the general invisibility of the wealth of great school holiday events, often free or low cost, put on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Young people & museums'
The honeypot effect: more on WaterWorx, the Powerhouse Museum’s iPad interactive
November 5th, 2010 4 Comments
Week one of our iPad interactive – WaterWorx – and the feedback has been great from visitors and teachers alike. Just to prove how much of a honeypot the iPads are, here’s a time-lapse from the day that the exhibition was soft launched. You can see the early morning final touches being added to the [...]
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“Let’s make more crowns”, or, the danger of not looking closely at your web metrics
January 9th, 2010 5 Comments
Happy new year everyone. I’ve got a bit of a backlog of posts but there is an ulterior motive for getting this out the door – and, well, it has been more than 18 months since I should have written about this. Over on our children’s website – Play at Powerhouse – we have a [...]
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Odditoreum visitor-written-labels now on Flickr
August 13th, 2009 Comments Off
Thanks to encouragement from Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn, Paula Bray has started uploading photos of some of the ‘visitor-generated labels‘ from our Odditoreum mini-exhibition. The ‘write-your-own-labels’ continue to be a roaring success. More on the Odditoreum here and on the basic info page.
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NMC Horizon.au Technology Report for Aus/NZ is released
December 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
Earlier this year the Horizon New Media Consortium convened in Australia to develop up a Horizon report specifically for the local education space. The report, detailing six technologies in the education sector to watch, has been released. Here’s a snippet – but I encourage you to read and then send around. Remember these are technologies [...]
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Light reading – two totally different audiences: researchers and young people
November 28th, 2008 Comments Off
Two interesting pieces of reading for those of you who have to spend time on public transport. First from the Research Information Network in the UK comes a report that looks at the need of academic researchers in discovering the content of museum collections using online databases. Not surprisingly “their most important wish is that [...]
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Teens, Games and Civics 2008 Report from Pew Internet & American Life Project / some implications for interactives in museums
September 17th, 2008 1 Comment
Another fascinating report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Teens, Games and Civics came out recently. Focussing on teen use of games (defined in very broad terms) the report is interesting reading. It is revealing in that it shows that game playing is most definitely mainstream (95%+ participation) and that gaming is a [...]
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on the ‘Generational Myth’
September 16th, 2008 1 Comment
In a new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, former NYU professor and Copyright reform activist Siva Vaidhyanathan writes a provocative essay against the notion of ‘digital natives’ arguing the term and any idea of a ‘generational shift’ is ludicrous and masks the very real diversity in skills, knowledge and behaviours amongst users of [...]
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Camilla Cooke explains the Kevin07 digital campaign – notes from CCI ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce’ conference, Brisbane, 2008
June 28th, 2008 1 Comment
Here’s the second of a set of notes scribed during the main sessions of the CCI’s conference ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce‘. Camilla Cooke was the strategist behind the Kevin07 digital campaign in what she described as ‘Australia’s first digital election’. In a fantastic presentation she went through the rationale behind the digital elements [...]
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Henry Jenkins – notes from CCI ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce’ conference, Brisbane, 2008
June 28th, 2008 Comments Off
I’ve been in Brisbane the last few days – presenting the Powerhouse Museum’s Creative Commons and public domain projects and also managed attend one day of the CCI’s conference ‘Creating Value Between Commons and Commerce‘. In amongst some truly awful examples of how not to use Powerpoint, there were some interesting presentations and papers. Here’s [...]
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