Over the past two days, the Explainers and ExNet hosted floor staff managers from around the country in a workshop designed to share with each other the joys and challenges of developing staff that interacts with the public in science museums. We had about 30 participants from Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, California, and even the mythical [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Explainer Manager Workshop
Posted in exploratorium on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
UCSF Tour
Posted in exploratorium on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, we had a tour of the UCSF gross anatomy labs with the amazing Dr. Peter O’Hara who has taken a special role this year as a friend of the Exploratorium and the Explainers in general by teaching us about biology and anatomy. During a normal school day, we dissect plenty of cow eyeballs and [...]
Obama Made Me Proud!
Posted in exploratorium on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Obama made me proud! Check out this 6 year old Obama supporter!
PIE Enlightenment Machines
Posted in exploratorium on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before Luigi Karen and Mike left for India, I told the magic man himself that I would put a link to their blog on the Explainer blog page. In case you haven’t heard, the PIE institute is in India now, doing workshops with Tibetan Buddhist monks.
Luigi and the others give all kinds of great freshly [...]
Brain-TV
Posted in exploratorium on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this sweet video that I made with the pictures and movie clips that Charlie Carlson took during Peter O’Hara’s brain training.
Also when I was in the library cutting the footage and adding the sound effects Jo showed me a cool article about an artist that has knitted a realistic [...]
Props to PIE for their pizzazz in the paper
Posted in exploratorium on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s an article in the Chron today about these science activities that went on at Chrissy Field yesterday. The wind tubes activity that PIE has been developing were there and got featured in the photo:
Dear Mr. President
Posted in exploratorium on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, whilst cleaning my room, I re-found a letter that I found last year in the museum. It was in an elementary school kid’s binder, and I copied it before I turned it all in to lost and found because I thought it was so great. Although it is not particularly relevant to science, I [...]
Pirates
Posted in exploratorium on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember the morning Ryan and Gabriel made us wear eye patches? Well I randomly found this swell website all about pirates tonight and I thought I’d share what this apparent pirate expert has written about the pirate/eyepatch theory. (when this page opens, just click on the link of the left that says ‘eye patches’)
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