[NHCOLL-L:5689] Gallery Guides online short course starts October 17

[Helen Alten]

MS011:  Gallery Guides
Karin Hostetter
Price: $95
Dates: Oct 17 to 21, 2011
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Self-guided brochures, exhibit labels, docent led tours, guest speakers, 
and audio tours are only a few of the methods available to guide 
visitors through an exhibit. Explore the strengths and challenges of 
many different methods and garner resources for further information. 
Learn how to determine which method works best with which exhibits and 
how to provide variety to enhance the visitor experience.

Logistics:
Participants in Gallery Guides will read literature and participate in 
four one-hour chats to discuss what is in an effective guide. Each 
student should read course materials and prepare questions or comments 
to share with the other students in the chat. This is a mini-course that 
lasts two weeks and takes no more than 20 hours of a student's time. 
This is an opportunity to brain-storm with colleagues about what works 
and what doesn't work.

To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at 
http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please 
contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

The Instructor:
Karin Hostetter has over thirty years experience with museum education. 
With a career that includes natural history museums, cultural history 
museums (including first person interpretation), nature centers, and 
zoos, Ms. Hostetter is experienced in interpretive writing, program and 
curriculum development, and staff and volunteer training. As a museum 
educator, she was Curator of Education for the Heard Natural Science 
Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary (McKinney, TX). Among her award-winning 
education curricula are several programs she developed for the education 
departments during her five years at the Heard Museum and her twelve 
years on staff at the Denver Zoo. As an interpretive writer, Ms. 
Hostetter has written text for exhibits, wayside exhibits, visitor 
brochures, and professional magazines. Her skill is in making technical 
information understandable and meaningful to visitors.

Karin Hostetter is owner of Interpret This, a consulting company 
specializing in interpretive writing, program and curriculum 
development, and volunteer program management. When she is not 
consulting with other museums, she likes to volunteer and contract teach 
at them with a special love for preschool and family programs.

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Helen I. Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org