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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Teaching Paleontology at Night at the Museum through Digital Fabrication
For sure, one of the coolest things about working at the Museum is getting to be involved with the sleepovers, otherwise known as Night at the Museum. Sorry, it is not like the movie – the dioramas do not come … Continue reading
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Gizmodo piece on Capturing Dinosaurs
Capturing Dinosaurs concluded last Friday with an amazing presentation by the youth. It was all youth led, full of science, 3D fabricated fossils and bad, very bad, dinosaur jokes (Why did the dinosaur cross the street? Because the chicken hadn’t … Continue reading
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Vine’s from Week One of Capturing Dinosaurs
Vine, the 6-second looping video app from Twitter, even strikes me as silly sometimes. But that doesn’t stop me from using it all the time. Below are some Vine’s from this week’s Capturing Dinosaurs program. I like them as a … Continue reading
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Capturing Dinosaurs – The Beginning
Yesterday we launched a ten day summer program for high school youth using the Museum’s dinosaur collections and the tools of digital fabrication to teach comparative fossil anatomy. The program, Capturing Dinosaurs, is a remarkable collaboration amongst our education department, … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Re-Newed Wonder at the AMNH through Virtual Wonder Cabinet Program
During January’s Digital Learning Week, the Museum’s Youth Initiatives team brought together youth, Museum educators, and scientists for a series of programs to explore using digital tools to engage with Museum halls, collections, and research. This post about “Virtual Wonder … Continue reading
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Digital Learning in Museums Snapshot – April, 2013
Last month I realized I had NO IDEA what was actually going on in museum education programs around the country. Is everyone teaching youth how to design games but no one is teaching them how to use a mobile app? … Continue reading
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AMNH’s Morpolution Video: Youth and Authentic Science Practices
What happens when you put the tools of science into the hands of youth and ask them to participate in authentic science activities? Find out in this new video from our Morpholution program (created by the fine folks in our … Continue reading
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A Tour of the Space Visualization Lab at the Adler Planetarium
When I was out last week at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, after my inspiring tour of the Field, I walked out the thin peninsula in the windy snow to meet with Robert Friedman of the Adler Planetarium. Robert … Continue reading
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Digital Media and Learning at the Field Museum
Eve Gaus is the Digital Learning Manager at the Field Museum in Chicago. When I was out last week at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, she was generous enough to take me around, talk about their new digital learning … Continue reading
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Conferring the Franklin Good Badger Badge
For my recent Ignite presentation, Franklin Wants a Badge, at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, I spent four minutes reading an abridged version of a real children’s story about badges: While I was reading the story, tweets critical of … Continue reading
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