There are still a handful of courses left in 2021.
Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees course begins Oct 4 on Museum Study
Is your relationship with your board collaborative, contentious, or non-existent? Does your board drift between non-management and micromanagement? Do you mentally or emotionally check out of the relationship due to lack of time or commitment?
Anne W. Ackerson will be leading a class on Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees. This four-week course, geared for executive directors and others who work with a board will cover roles and responsibilities, assessing the board-staff relationship, and putting strategic and integrative thinking to work at board and committee meetings, among other topics. Each week will include readings and assignments. We'll also gather in Zoom chats to explore topics in more depth and problem-solve your CEO-board challenges!
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/leading-together-working-for-and-with-your-board-of-trustees
How to Tell Stories and Construct Effective Exhibition Labels course begins Oct 4 on MuseumStudy.com
Ever wanted to know how to tell stories and construct effective exhibition labels? If so, this course is for you. We will focus on providing you with tips on how to research, develop, and structure content. Plus, how to transform your story into effective exhibition panels and labels. As we delve into all stages of the process, strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for this type of content development. Participants will be encouraged to generate and refine their own ideas for content and exhibition label development that fits their respective institutions. Join Saul Sopoci Drake for the 4 week online course How to Tell Stories and Construct Effective Exhibition Panels.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/how-to-tell-stories-and-create-effective-exhibition-panels
Climate Change Interpretation course begins Oct 4 on Museum Study
Join Professor John Veverka for the 4 week online course Climate Change Interpretation. Climate change and global warming issues are quickly reaching a critical level affecting each of us as well as the world every day. From enabling extreme weather, sea level increases from glacial melting and flooding, affecting farming and food production, and the increasing health risks such as asthma in children, we, as interpreters, interpretive organizations and agencies, museums and zoo educators have to do a better job in interpreting climate issues to our visitors. We need to do this particularly at the grass root level, for our own visitors raising awareness of problems and de-bunking myths.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/climate-change-interpretation
Integrated Pest Management: The Plan and Implementation online course begins Nov 1 on Museum Study
So you are familiar with Integrated Pest Management, but you never got around to writing a plan to carry it out. Here is the course for you!
A written plan formalizes the IPM strategy and keeps management abreast of your status. It organizes your ideas and lays the groundwork for the needs of the collection and the building(s). It provides the direction in which you want to take the program, including grant funding and accreditation.
Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator Gretchen Anderson for this four week online course in which participants will learn how to apply IPM principles to their specific situation and institution. A draft plan and specific implementation strategies will be developed and discussed. Even though our institutions have different challenges the exchange of ideas presents the opportunity for us to help each other brainstorm solutions that will work for our situation.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/integrated-pest-management-plan
Advanced Interpretive Techniques course begins Nov 1 on Museum Study
Join Professor John Veverka for the 4 week online course Advanced Interpretive Techniques - Interpreting the "rest of the story". Interpreting “the rest of the story”, a powerful Interpretive communications technique for revealing and releasing the “rest of the stories” hidden in artifacts, objects, historical figures/events, landscapes, or sites through both live presentations and interpretive media text and label copy. This course will help you utilize and blend the Paul Harvey Rest of the Story format with Tilden’s Interpretive Principles. An interpretive technique marriage you can embrace and use throughout your interpretive career.
For more information visit our website: https://www.museumstudy.com/advanced-interpretive-techniques-interpreting-the-rest-of-the-story