People who work in and teach about museums don’t have good examples of exhibit design and exhibit labels to use as examples. There’s no online database of good exhibit labels, or even of all exhibit labels, or of good images of exhibits. It’s a natural for crowdsourcing, though. We need to set up a site that encourages the uploading of labels, either bits of exhibit scripts or images of labels in use, and of pictures taken in exhibits and floor plans of exhibits. Some could be annotated, some could be offered as is, and tagged by other users.

Over time, we’d have a source to point students and practitioners to, an archive of examples to teach from, and an ad-hoc record of interesting work in the field.

We could organize this in an hour, and build it over the next few years…

Steve

I’m so jealous.

Sherman, I like both of your ideas. Your second one might be connected to Ryan Cordell’s “Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop.” (And it also reminds me of Jason B. Jones’ “Rubrick” project.)

Amanda, by “like a book” do you mean featuring pages and the ability to flip through them with some kind of fluid, animated interface?

You know what I want? Hate that it’s so CHNM-centered — that’s sheer accident, I swear. But I want an Omeka plugin and/or theme that’ll make page images display like a book. Maybe that’s a terrible idea: should just generate an epub or something. But that’s something I’ve been kinda wanting.

Okay, so we need issues with plausible fast hacks? A few ideas:

1) A greasemonkey-like script for one or two browsers that would replace text with defined objects from a publicly-readable or local-file table. Example use: Replace displayed names in a Blackboard discussion board with the name and an image/avatar. My problem this solves: students in discussion boards on Blackboard (and probably other LMSs) use the usual socially-inept responses, and there’s no reminder when reading an entry of who wrote it. (I suspect it would have other uses, too — someone would create a “pants”-style meme table I’m sure.)

2) Inline-frame add-on to Google Docs forms (or another forms tool). Example uses: 1) Rubric scoring of text answers (for assignments) that would display the student response side-by-side with scoring prompts. (Which ProfHacker entry discussed using Google Docs Forms for grading?) 2) Variant of #1, but used for calibrating multiple graders’ responses.

I tried to choose proposals that seemed to first identify a need for something that doesn’t yet exist and then propose a session that would either start creating that something or that would facilitate a conversation about creating that something.

So we could follow up one of these sessions with the “One Session | One Solution” approach to the topic, or we could turn one of these sessions into “One Session | One Solution.” Mostly, I’m just trying to initiate a pre-unconference discussion.

“Match make/ paper prototype nifty visual interfaces for particular kinds of digital objects and collections,,” by Trevor Owens

A new way of extracting, sharing and re-using collection data: “The future of Zotero,” by Tim Sherratt.

“Building a better backchannel,” by Mark Sample.

What Omeka-in-the-Classroom could or should look like: “Archives, encoding, and students, oh my!” by Tonya Howe.

Creating (or locating) a theme and/or a plugin to enhance the accessibility of either the front end or the back end a commonly-used CMS like WordPresss, Omeka, Drupla, Joomla, or the like: “Making the digital humanities accessible,” by George Williams.

Other ideas also welcome, if you’ve got ’em!