Workshop: Connecting Visitors to Meaning Through Interpretive Exhibits.

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We attended a Workshop yesterday sponsored by the Texas Historical Commission.  Topic: Connecting Visitors to Meaning Through Interpretive Exhibits.  We did some reading, writing, discussing, collaborating, production of a mock exhibit and presentations as well.  We learned a lot about this kind of exhibit design in a museum context and found many parallels to our own ideas of teaching and
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Austin Museum Partnership Educator Night

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We brought a variety of materials and most importantly three of our UTeach Spring Interns to Educator night sponsored by the Austin Museum Partnership, and hosted at the LBJ Library — Fancy. We had some great conversations with teachers and with museum staff about adding math to museum offerings and about opportunities to take Math Field Trips!