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Museum Presentation: How TO and How NOT TO Interact with Visitors Video Guide

Professional development resources for educators from the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network.

DESCRIPTION

These short films to help train staff and volunteers for engaging the public in a museum setting.These professional development videos "Museum Presentation (How NOT to Interact with Visitors", and "How to Interact with Visitors" can be used as a tool with staff and volunteers to demonstrate best practices for interacting with museum visitors.

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  • A video still of a museum presenter in a black shirt talking to a museum visitor in a blue shirt
  • a bearded museum visitor asking a question to museum educator at a table
  • A museum educator holding a phone ignoring museum visitors
  • Computer screenshot of the How to Interact video featuring a man in a blue shirt walking to a museum educator
  • A video still of a museum presenter in a black shirt talking to a museum visitor in a blue shirt
  • a bearded museum visitor asking a question to museum educator at a table
  • A museum educator holding a phone ignoring museum visitors
  • Computer screenshot of the How to Interact video featuring a man in a blue shirt walking to a museum educator

DESCRIPTION

These short films to help train staff and volunteers for engaging the public in a museum setting.These professional development videos "Museum Presentation (How NOT to Interact with Visitors", and "How to Interact with Visitors" can be used as a tool with staff and volunteers to demonstrate best practices for interacting with museum visitors.

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TRAINING VIDEOS

Credits

YEAR CREATED
2017
OWNING INSTITUTION

Science Museum of Minnesota

FUNDING

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

PERMISSIONS

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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