Hi. I am Barry Joseph.
I am formerly the VP of Digital Experience at the Girl Scouts of the USA and Associate Director For Digital Learning at the American Museum of Natural History.
When I began at the Museum I used this blog to talk about my adventures, exploring issues related to digital media and museum-based learning. I featured original interviews, thought pieces, and highlights from my work and those of my colleagues at the AMNH.
Starting in 2020, with the launch of Barry Joseph Consultancy, LLC, I turned this blog into a place to explore digital engagement writ large.
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Category Archives: From My Work
MicroMuseum, Session 2: Augmented Ice Cream
Today was the second session of MicroMuseum. The first session focused all on science (microbiology). Today we flipped it and focused all on technology (augmented reality). And from here on out we’ll be combining the two. After a challenging name … Continue reading
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MicroMuseum launched today – a mobile gaming program about microbial organisms
Today was a wild day for me. After participating in the press briefing for the new pterosaurs exhibit, where I helped share the exhibit-related card game developed within an after school program, we launched a NEW after school program that … Continue reading
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Get your red hot Pterosaurs: The Card Game! Download the game now.
Today was a big day for Pterosaurs: The Card Game, the project we co-developed with youth in our #scienceFTW program. Actually, it was a big day for pterosaurs, as this morning we held our press briefing to introduce our new … Continue reading
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Pterosaurs: The Card Game AR App Launchs in App Store
Wahoo! So excited. What just started last fall as a fortuitously timed conversation with the Museum’s exhibition department (learning they were making totally cool pterosaurs animations for our new exhibit opening next week) has now been released to the public … Continue reading
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Film Shoot for Pterosaurs: The Card Game Playthrough Video
Last week we had youth game designer Katie (participant in the recent #scienceFTW program that developed the game) and Martin, the son of an AMMH employee, get together to play Pterosaurs: the Card Game to supplement the upcoming material around … Continue reading
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NYTimes Recognizes AMNH’s Minecraft and Pterosaur Gaming Projects
We are so super thrilled that today’s New York Time’s special magazine section features a wonderful article (re: At Play in Skies of Cretaceous Era) about how the Museum is, in their words, “an eager participant in a 21st-century movement … Continue reading
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11 Questions to a Museum Blogger on Museum Blog/gers Day
For #MuseumBloggersDay the @futureofmuseums tagged me to respond to 11 Questions to a Museum Blogger on Museum Blog/gers Day, and then pass it on. Let’s see if I can answer 11 questions in 11 minutes (I won’t even re-read it … Continue reading
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Come Work With Us – Program Assistant for Youth Digital Learning Programs
I am so excited to share this description of a new position opening up here at the museum, working directly with me: Program Assistant for Youth Digital Learning Programs. For more details or to apply for the position, please go … Continue reading
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Augmenting the Museum: Pterosaurs, Microbiomes, and More
“omne trium perfectum” (Latin for everything that comes in threes is perfect) According to Wikipedia, the rule of three is a writing principle that “suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than … Continue reading
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My Beef With Badges: A Call for Conversation
Below is my latest column on DMLcentral. It addresses concerns I have had for some time and, writing it, helped me to crystallize how to address them. I hope this is seen not as a statement but as the start … Continue reading
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