Comments on: Creating a Virtual Museum http://teachercalder.ca/2014/01/24/creating-a-virtual-museum/ The ramblings of a geeky student success teacher Thu, 13 Feb 2014 21:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: jaccalder http://teachercalder.ca/2014/01/24/creating-a-virtual-museum/#comment-75024 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:55:45 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=549#comment-75024 Neat idea Jean,
We could (if I can manage all this in one semester) connect to remote locations and other First Nations most certainly. I could do this to areas I used to live in as well as potentially Aboriginal communities from other parts of the world. Thanks for the ideas!

]]> By: Jean Hargreaves http://teachercalder.ca/2014/01/24/creating-a-virtual-museum/#comment-75023 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:52:03 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=549#comment-75023 Hi Jac,
You might know that the digital ideas would not come from me except that I have added Drop Box to my meager technical repertoire. I do want to congratulate you on mobilizing learning, always your strength. This approach certainly gives a powerful voice. How about connecting with other students in remote areas…Pikangikum had a leader very interested in supporting this.
Continue the wonderful work and have a great winter week end.
Jean

]]> By: jaccalder http://teachercalder.ca/2014/01/24/creating-a-virtual-museum/#comment-75022 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:29:14 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=549#comment-75022 Heather…. I love it! We often have math and science running in the first semester, so we could make projects around the Native astronomy, traditional diets, herbs/medicine, etc. to add on to it next year. What an amazing idea!

]]> By: Heather Theijsmeijer http://teachercalder.ca/2014/01/24/creating-a-virtual-museum/#comment-75021 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:41:54 +0000 http://teachercalder.ca/?p=549#comment-75021 Wow – this sounds like a fantastic (and huge!!) project! Best of luck with it. I wonder if, in the future, other schools could add “wings” or “galleries” to the virtual museum – add in information about their own geography or peoples?

SecondLife and Minecraft are good venues, but would that allow *everyone* to have access? (Or would access only be to those with SecondLife/Minecraft accounts?). I’ve never heard of Google Gallery… Would even a well-set-up wiki work, too?

I’m always looking to inject science into large projects – ideas might include Native astronomy (grade 9 science), traditional diets (foods/nutrition), traditional herbs/medicine (biology or chemistry), going further back – traditional tool materials (earth science)… just ideas :)

Looking forward to seeing how this progresses!

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