First Day of Class

Announcements

• Meeting next week at 10:30am at the New Jersey State Museum
• Need cell numbers from each of you for travel forms
• How many of you drive?

Intros

Let’s go around the room and introduce ourselves; name, year, what do you hope to get from this course?

What is this class?

• A brief history
• Last year’s projects

Syllabus

Let’s review the syllabus

Next Week

Map to NJSM

• 8:30 am – meet at AIMM 222
• 8:30 am to 10:00 am – Mark Thompson teaches 1st part of class in AIMM 222
• 10:00 am – Drive over to NJSM
• 10:30 am to 11:00 am – Beth Cooper introduces NJSM covering mission, history, audience and how exhibitions are realized
• 11:00 am to 12:00 pm – Jim Moss presents collections management basics with possible tour of compact storage
• 12:00pm – drive back to TCNJ

Assignment

Open Content & Big Data

• Create a Google Drive presentation and name is “Design Notebook”
• Read  The “Open” Economy: filling the data pipeline in TreadsWatch 2015 pp. 9-17
• Read  Data is the New Oil in TreadsWatch 2014 pp. 24-31
• Read Open Content in the 2012 Horizon Report Museum Edition pp. 23-26
• Create a slide and name it “Open Content & Big Data”
• From the museum exhibition examples described in the reading, which ones do you find most interesting? Write a paragraph or two describing the exhibits and why they appeal to you.

NJSM Archaeology & Ethnography Collections

• Review the NJSM’s Archaeology & Ethnography Collection overview on their site
• Review the New Jersey State Museum New Jersey’s Original People, Cultures in Competition & A Much Moved People exhibition pages.
• Create another slide in your Design Notebook and title it “NJSM Archaeology & Ethnography Collections”
• Think about your reading on open content & big data and how it might be used to enhance the Original People, Cultures in Competition and/or Much Moved People exhibits. Write a paragraph or two outlining your ideas.

Submitting Your Work

This week’s homework assignment is due next week before class. When you’ve completed it, post a comment on this page (First Day of Class), including a link to your Design Notebook, and submit that link to canvas.