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Objects in focus: Teachers’ Resources reaching beyond the museum walls

Objects in focus: Teachers’ Resources reaching beyond the museum walls. Introduction to Jewish Museum London. 1932 Woburn House. 1983-1995 London Museum of Jewish Life. 1995-2007 Albert Street. Jewish Museum London Learning Team. 2010 Museums merge, reopen in Camden.

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Objects in focus: Teachers’ Resources reaching beyond the museum walls

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  1. Objects in focus: Teachers’ Resources reaching beyond the museum walls

  2. Introduction to Jewish Museum London 1932 Woburn House 1983-1995 London Museum of Jewish Life 1995-2007 Albert Street Jewish Museum London Learning Team

  3. 2010 Museums merge, reopen in Camden Judaism: A Living Faith History: A British Story Jewish Museum London Learning Team

  4. Arts Council England. Museums and Schools Partnership Programme • National project across 10 regions. • Responding to Henley Review. • Aim for the visits is to spark young people's curiosity and encourage a lifelong passion for culture and learning. • Jewish Museum brief was to welcome 5000 students on 3 visits to the museum. 15,000 visits in total. • Develop ‘downloadable resources from the website and offer the opportunity for hundreds of schools to engage with the programme’. Jewish Museum London Learning Team

  5. Brief for Objects in Focus • Further study options to support existing workshops. • Downloadable resources to support First World War workshop. • Enable the Museum to extend engagement with wider audiences. • Develop ideas that prepare, embed and extend the museum visit in a concrete and meaningful way either pre or post visit. Jewish Museum London Learning Team

  6. The Aims of Objects in Focus • To create a online platform that enables teachers and students to interact with beautiful and unique items from the museum’s collections. • To create a valuable pre and post visit extension resource for teachers. • To support teachers in teaching religious studies, East End history and Holocaust studies and to create cross-curricular links to enable multiple department collaboration. Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  7. Design Concept Design used the ACE Quality Principles as a framework • Designed to be used primarily in the classroom • Visually engaging and easy to navigate • Ease of Maintenance Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  8. Timeline and Budget Budget of £5000, excluding staff time ACE project begins Objects in Focus begins Budget signed off Objects in Focus goes live Shortlisted for M&H award Fran recruited March 2014 March 31st 2013 February 2013 January 2013 October 2013 November 2012 Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  9. Starting a Hierarchy of Information Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  10. Building a Template Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  11. Choosing the Objects Many of these were not used. Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  12. Object Information

  13. Next stages • Review the objects displayed and respond to student/teacher evaluation and curriculum changes • Increase the number of Digital Takeaways • To test feasibility of adding audio layer Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  14. Evaluation • Google Analytics • First 3 months 3833 page views • Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll • Student Response – what we discovered • Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll • We were intrigued that students wanted to see video interpretation exploring how objects were made or used • Students enjoyed the objects that showed more than one image of the object • The majority of the students wished to have interpretation of the objects by museum staff.

  15. Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/objects-in-focus Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

  16. Questions • Tali Krikler • Frances Jeens Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources

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