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Claire Savage
  • 48, Female
  • Perth, WA
  • *Australia
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Can interpretation for children be fun as well as educational?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Cathy Lewis Aug 31, 2009.

High Tech Interpretation - Is anyone doing it?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Cathy Lewis May 15, 2009.

 

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Claire Savage posted blog posts
Jun 10, 2011
Claire Savage liked Jane King's blog post When is a Paper NOT a Paper? - ATF2011
Jun 10, 2011
Cathy Lewis replied to Claire Savage's discussion Can interpretation for children be fun as well as educational?
"Hi Jane Thanks for your comments. It would be great to hear from Yolanda and Rosemary. It's good to know that Rosemary found inspiration at my workshop - hearing things like that make it all worthwhile. I am hoping to get back to Australia…"
Aug 31, 2009
Jane King replied to Claire Savage's discussion Can interpretation for children be fun as well as educational?
"Hi Cathy, I know that the City of Melville at their Heathcote and Wireless Hill sites have being doing some really interesting things with upper primary and teenage students - I'll get Yolanda to post some comments. Also Rosemary at Kodja…"
Aug 13, 2009
Cathy Lewis replied to Claire Savage's discussion Can interpretation for children be fun as well as educational?
"I've just been to an AHI event at London Zoo. We looked at the interpretation in the new Animal Adventure section (formerly called the children's zoo). It is fab - all written in rhyme for younger children (4-6s) but just rude enough to…"
Aug 7, 2009
Cathy Lewis replied to Claire Savage's discussion Can interpretation for children be fun as well as educational?
"It seems no-one has replied to this - but there most be lots of fun children's stuff going on in Australia! My particular interest at the moment is writing/interpreting for teenagers. Quite a few sites are 'tackling teens' in the UK.…"
May 15, 2009
Cathy Lewis replied to Claire Savage's discussion High Tech Interpretation - Is anyone doing it?
"Hi there, I'm completely new to the site - and sending my message from the UK! I've just spent the last two days at the Museums & Heritage Show in London where there was some amazing technology on display. This included a touchscreen…"
May 15, 2009
Claire Savage replied to Claire Savage's discussion High Tech Interpretation - Is anyone doing it?
"I've just received information about a new report developed by the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. It's called An Investigation into the incorporation of leading edge mobile technologies in the recreation and adventure…"
May 8, 2009
Jane King replied to Claire Savage's discussion High Tech Interpretation - Is anyone doing it?
"The Podcasting article in Musing last year was excellent. There is more info on pod-casting at http://www.museumdetective.com Rosemary said:Museums should make more use of podcasts as an marketing tool. Virtual tours of the museum space or even…"
Apr 29, 2009
Jenna Lynch replied to Claire Savage's discussion High Tech Interpretation - Is anyone doing it?
"http://www.cityofperth.wa.gov.au/web/Visiting/Activities/Audio-Trails/ city of perth i-walk podcasts"
Apr 28, 2009
Jenna Lynch replied to Claire Savage's discussion High Tech Interpretation - Is anyone doing it?
"I have been wondering how effective/ineffective the use of podcasts are at heritage sites that can not be entered by the public. Is it engaing enough to listen to a podcast and look at the exterior of a building?... or after the novelty of the audio…"
Apr 28, 2009
Rosemary replied to Claire Savage's discussion High Tech Interpretation - Is anyone doing it?
"Museums should make more use of podcasts as an marketing tool. Virtual tours of the museum space or even people talking about the exhbitions could be uploaded onto the museum website. I really enjoyed the article in Musing (Summer 2009) on…"
Apr 28, 2009
Claire Savage posted discussions
Apr 27, 2009
Claire Savage replied to Admin@MuseumsWA's discussion Museums and Tourism - a marriage made in heaven?
"Given that most museums and galleries are free to enter how can they make the most out of the visitors they do get? In the UK entry fees were introduced years ago and visitor numbers went down so they eventually took the entry fee away. Given that…"
Apr 27, 2009
Claire Savage replied to Admin@MuseumsWA's discussion Welcome to our new site!
"I'm loving the site and I'm looking forward to lots more discussions. Great to see the beautiful images people are putting up. Excellent"
Apr 27, 2009
Claire Savage replied to Jane King's discussion Is everyone a Curator?
"Fascinating article! It lead me to thinking about how museums and other collecting places really view their public. Are they a consituent group to be engaged and cultivated or are they just a bit of a nuisance causing disruption to what would be the…"
Apr 27, 2009

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Claire Savage's Blog

Thinking about the future at ATF2011

Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:00pm 0 Comments

I like to search for inspirational stuff and I came across this TED talk that I thought was fascinating. It's by an architect from the UK who has a very interesting approach and some even more interesting outcomes.  Linking nature and people and thinking well outside the box he comes up with some outstanding concept.

 

Check out the talk from …

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Inspiration to Come to ATF2011 in Perth

Posted on June 9, 2011 at 7:21pm 0 Comments

One of the challenges with having a conference in Western Australia is inspire interpretation and museums and galleries professionals from all over Australia and the World to commit to making the journey.  Apparently we are the most isolated city in the world which has its disadvantages but has a heap of advantages too!

 

To help people to make the decision to come to the West we have set up a Tumbr account showing images of the fab things you can do in WA when you get here and…

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At 10:36am on April 21, 2009, Admin@MuseumsWA said…
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Why not join the MA members Group?
 
 
 

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