Public Program Next Steps

Our class will be split into 4 groups that address different components of the Program, but also work together. Everyone is required (mandatory) to be at the Program on March 17th and help with implementation.



The workshop Groups are (with general responsibilities):

• Planning/Logistics- responsible for any and all arrangements related to program (permit, security, etc) and set up with outside resources (Gwen Miner, Aramark, etc)


• Marketing/PR- responsible for press release, posters/flyers, e-mails, general outreach and coordinating with Hartwick resources (publications, Facebook, etc)


• Budget and Materials-Monitor budget, track all expenses, request any checks and purchase all required materials


• Evaluation- develop and implement evaluation, including collecting during program and summarizing afterwards

Public Program: Working Toward Some Consensus

Date: April 17th
Time: 11am to 3pm
Locations: Yager Museum and Frisbee Field
Offerings: Exhibit, activities, and refreshments

Purpose:
1) Raise awareness of Hartwick students, faculty and staff about the Yager Museum
2) Engage peers in dialogue about domestic life development and transition that has occurred during the last 150 years
3) Engage peers in the Yager Museum exhibit and hands-on activities that illustrate the following areas of the transition and development of domestic life:
a) Technology
b) Dining/Etiquette
c) Crafts

Goals:
1) Technology: Illustrate the difference in today's technology (often taken for granted) compared to what was available in the 19th century and early 20th century.
2) Dining/Etiquette: Illustrate the development of dining/etiquette and its meaning.
3) Crafts: Define and illustrate the development of piece work in the home and today's craft work.

Objectives:
1) Technology areas for activitites
a) Ironing
b) Coffee grinding
c) Laundry
d) Scavenger hunt question

2) Dining/Etiquette activities
a) Place setting/greetings
b) Tea/coffee drinking
c) Calling cards and meaning
d) Scavenger hunt question

3) Crafts actitivities
a) Candle making (two locations- then and now)
b) Piecework (two locations- then and now)
c) Calling cards
d) Quilting element/design (African American voice)
e) Piecework/flower making
f) Scavenger hunt question

Class Discussion Questions: Evaluation and Benchmarking in Museum Education and Museum Programs

Here the discussion questions for Tuesday provided by Margaret and Danielle:


1. Q:What is evaluation in the museum environment?

2. Q: What are the four stages of evaluation and define them?

3. Q:Why is evaluation so important?


Be sure you've completed the readings and be prepared to discuss these questions.

Focus Group: What Do Your Peers Think?

Museum Education 304
Short Assignment
Assigned: March 4, 2010
Due in class: March 16, 2010

Your assignment is to create your own audience focus group for the Yager Museum. Select three or four friends, classmates, staff or even faculty to sit down with you for a 10-20 minute Q&A about their perspective on the Yager Museum.

You determine the questions. Examples include:

Where is the museum located?
How many times have you visited?
Why do you go to the Yager?
If you have never been why?
If you have been once but not again, why?
What would encourage you to come more often?
What were your expectations of the visit?
Were those expectations met?

Make up some questions of your own using the readings as a guide.

Please write a 500-750 word reflection paper addressing:
1. Who you surveyed (names not need, but basic information is, like age range, gender, student, staff, etc.)
2. What questions you asked
3. The response you received
4. Whether the answers you received match the general criteria you read about in the Black Chapt 1 reading.

Please submit this reflection paper by Tuesday, March 16 using the following as guidelines:
1. 12 pt font, Times New Roman, one-inch margins, 1 ½ spaced
2. Name of class and your name as the header
3. Proof-read and spell-checked

RSS Feeds

Here's some quick guidance on subscribing to the RSS feed on the blog. As we discussed, you should be able to use the following link: http://yagermuseum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss and add (copy and paste/import) this to your Hartwick Microsoft Outlook RSS feed folder. Let me know if you have any additional questions.

Public Program Framework

I. Determine Your Purpose
What is the overall purpose for doing this program? Does everyone in the group understand the purpose?
a. Purpose:
i. The Yager Museum will offer engaging exhibits, programs, and events that will engage the College Community.

II. Define Goals and Objectives
Goals - the direction to go. Objectives - the means to achieve. Goals will help your group focus on meeting the purpose of the plan and objectives will break down the stages of how the goals will be met.
a. Goals:
i. Create a powerful personal experience
ii. Involve the College community in the Yager Museum and attract them to the Domesticity exhibit.
b. Objectives:
i. Work with Gwen Minor to offer a variety of activities
ii. Partner with the Dean of First Year Students?
iii. Make activities relevant to exhibit.

III. Create and Detail Your Program Plan
a. Outline Program
i. Event schedule
ii. Create a budget
iii. What are you doing and who is doing it
iv. Marketing and promotions
v. Supplies needed
vi. Set up required
vii. Safety issues
viii. Back-up plan (weather)
b. Evaluation
i. How will you measure success

IV. Implement the Program

V. Evaluate the Program

VI. Program Report

Public Program Brainstorming

After looking over the exhibit at the Yager Museum and a visit with Gwen Miner at The Farmers' Museum, here is our working list of ideas for our April 24th Public Program:

• Spinning
• Animals
• Flax
• Candle/soap making
• Sewing
• "Dress up"
• Music (music department)
• Theatre kids
• Old time photos
• Coffee grinding
• Games
• Ironing
• Calling cards
• Place setting/table setting
• Scavenger hunt or something similiar

What are our next steps?

1) Budget info

2) Selecting our ideas

3) Developing our game plan