From: Deborah Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 15 2001 - 10:06:58 PST
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:06:58 -0800 (PST) From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Re: pinhole Pathways again Message-ID: <Pine.GSU.4.10.10111151005280.4212-100000@isaac>
Dear Eric,
I'd suggest PDFs if you are going to have them printable from the Web.
However, being able to customize them experiences with choices that would
branch off to meet teachers' and students' needs would be a nice feature.
Deb
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 emuller@exploratorium.edu wrote:
> Thanks for all the input on the pathways email I sent out a week or so ago.
> We had some great suggestions including opening up the sound column for school
> tours (call me, I'll see what I can do), creating an Earth Science pathway and
> having a "women" and a "people of color" pathway.
> Keep these suggestions coming.
>
> There are a couple related things I want to concentrate on in this email.
> Who is our audience and what kind of pathway would be best for them?
> And what is the best method to disseminating a pathway?
>
> The old pathways were geared towards middle school students and teachers. These
> visitors could have had little to no experience at the museum. You could pass out
> a copy of the pathways, send your students into the museum and have them meet you
> a few hours later. They would fill out some questions and hand them in.
> Depending on the teacher, students were done with their Exploratorium experience
> when they handed in their pathway.
>
> The updated pathways located at http://www.exo.net/~emuller/pathways follow this
> theme.
>
> Should we keep this method?
> Should we make it less directed?
> Should we design the pathways for teacher use or for student use?
> What grade level/s should we concentrate on?
> Should we provide suggestions for assessing students on a field trip other than
> written questions?
>
> What methods have you tried?
>
> One of the things to keep in mind is that annually thousands of school groups
> visit the museum. We don't have the person power to give guided tours to every
> group. We also want to avoid mailing the pathways out via snail mail at the time
> of reservation.
>
> We're looking at on-line alternatives to disseminate the new pathways. We're
> still assuming that the teacher will still be the person to make contact with the
> museum.
>
> Would a web page work if you could print it off?
> Would it be better to have static web pages with thematic pathways or have a
> system where teachers could pick out the exhibits and the associated questions?
>
> Well that's it for now.
> Please comment on these questions or provide any other thoughts about pathways.
>
>
> Thanks a bunch?
> -Eric
>
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