Mills Kelly at edwired proposed that universities give away the general education requirement courses, about 40 credit hours at George Mason University where Kelly teaches. In an extended essay titled, The End of Western Civilization as we Know It, he explains:
What I’m suggesting here is that we have to throw out our assumptions about what [...]
Posts Tagged ‘museums’
The Long Tail: PBS, Higher Education, and Museums
Posted in Education, museums, new media, tagged Anthony D. Williams, Chris Anderson, Daniel Othmer, Don Tapscott, Electronic Museum, long tail, Museum2.0, museums, Museums and the Web, pbs, universities, Wikinomics on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Omeka: Internet Exhibits Made Much Easier
Posted in Dayton, Ohio, Ohio Humanities Council, Omeka, civic engagement, cultural heritage, history, museums, oral history, public history, tagged archives, blog, Center for History and New Media, DaytonCreate, digital collections, digital exhibits, museums, Ohio Humanities Council, Omeka, wordpress on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Center for History and New Media, in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society, released Omeka this past winter. Omeka is a web platform or publishing tool for sharing collections and producing exhibitions online. Omeka is available free to download and it is open source, permitting all kinds of modifications as well as [...]
Cultural Heritage Areas
Posted in Ohio, Prince Edward Island, cultural heritage, museums, tagged cultural heritage areas, culture, museums, Prince Edward Island, tourism. pei on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blessed with long stretches of beaches and bounded by its shoreline, Prince Edward Island is a unique multi-cultural heritage and environmental area. The compact island and its population are the size of some of the cultural heritage areas of Ohio. PEI museums, ceilidhs and other performances, recreational opportunities, and marketing offer some good [...]
PEI: Acadians and the Farmers’ Bank of Rustico
Posted in Prince Edward Island, cultural heritage, history, oral history, tagged acadian, cajun, cultural heritage area, culture, Doucet House, Farmers' Bank, museums, Prince Edward Island, Rustico, tourism on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“ . . . a people’s bank is of such vital concern to the prosperity of agriculture, that it deserves every consideration . . .” Father Belcourt, 1873
The wide curve of Rustico Bay faces the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and is sheltered by Robinson’s Island and a thin spit of land along on the [...]
PEI: Student Employment and the “Storied Past”
Posted in Prince Edward Island, cultural heritage, history, museums, popular history, tagged cultural heritage, museums, Parks Canada, PEI, Prince Edward Island, student employment on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Three seasonal activities—agriculture, fishing, and tourism—are the backbone of the Prince Edward Island economy. The number of local, provincial, and national museums is striking relative to the small province’s population. According to the 2007 Provincial Budget Address, “Protecting our past and celebrating our heritage has always been a top priority for Islanders.”
During the summer, museums [...]
