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VIRTUAL MUSEUM AS INNOVATIVE TOOL FOR ADULT
EDUCATION
(GRUNDTVIG
2 PROJECT)
Minutes of the meeting held in Metz on the 3rd and 4th November
2006.
Participants present:
Augusts Ruplis, Riga Technical University
Anita Eglite, Riga Technical University
Martins Vedikis, student of Riga Technical University
Lars Birch Andreasen, Danish University of Education (Friday
only)
Helene Illeris, Danish University of Education (Friday only)
Richard Steyer, INFA
Christianne Brisse, INFA
Lina Pauhitiene, Lithuanian Art Museum
Vaida Radyte Ziuriene, Lithuanian Art Museum
Robert Ghirlando, University of Malta
Ian Ellis, University of Malta
Pappa Milea, Varnava Museum
Katsikis Petros, Varnava Museum
Psychogiore Metaxia, Varnava Museum
Papadopoulos Anna,
Varnava Museum
Prilidis Dimitris,
Varnava Museum
Carlo Mastroeni,
Impegno Civile Messina
Adriano Smiroldo,
Impegno Civile Messina
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FRIDAY 3rd NOVEMBER
At 9.00am, the participants were met in the reception of Hotel
Cecil by Richard Steyer and were taken to the offices of INFA (IFRA
has now become INFA). There they were met by Christianne
Brisse, manager, who showed them round the offices of INFA and
also explained the work of INFA.
After the meeting at INFA, the participants were taken to Hotel
IBIS, where the day’s meeting was held.
Prof Augusts Replis, co-ordinator, chaired the meetings.
1. Welcome
Participants were welcomed by Christianne Brisse on behalf of
the French partners.
Richard Steyer presented the agenda and informed participants
of changes to the agenda.
Prof Ruplis presented certificates of attendance at the Athens
meeting to participants.
2. Approval of minutes of last meeting
The minutes of the Athens Meeting were taken as read and
approved.
3. Tasks and possibilities in virtual museum activities
Robert presented the paper he had written and posted on the
Blackboard on the various possible uses that can be made of a
website when used as a virtual museum. A constructive
discussion followed.
4. Demo of the website “Virtual Museums as Educational Tool”
Lars and Helene presented this website. This is a homepage
about virtual museum as educational tool for students who want
to know more about virtual museums, e.g. students who are
writing dissertations or assignments. The address of this
website, which they will put on Blackboard is:
http://www.vmit.dk.pnp.munksoegaard.dk
Helene also presented a report “Learning with Digital
Technologies in Museums, Science Centres and Galleries” by Roy
Hawkey of King’s College London, that was prepared for Nesta
Futurelab. She will be putting the report on the Blackboard.
5. Presentation “Implementation of ICT in museum”
Anita made her presentation on implementing ICT in museum. She
said that ICT in museum has become a part of the information
manegement policy of museums in EU, USA and elsewehere. A
useful source of information was a book titled “Information
Management in Museums”. She also spoke about the difficulty of
bringing history alive.
6. Presentation of “Learning Tools for Virtual Museum”
Martins made a presentation about (1) scanning of film negatives
and (2) editing of digital photos. He explained how to use a
scanner to scan photographs, negatives, diapositives, etc. For
editing digital photos, one can use Photoshop or else
Photofiltre which can be downloaded for free from
http://www.photofiltre.com.
Photofiltre can open Photoshop files. It is not as powerful as
Photoshop but it is simpler and free.
7. Presentation “Museum and Adult Education (ICOM opinion)”
Augusts explained what is UNESCO, ICOM, ICTOP, and who is Boylan.
ICOM is the international commission of museums. ICTOP is the
international committee (of ICOM) for training of (museum)
personnel. He then went on to say that ICOM had produced a
basic syllabus for museum studies and curriculum guidelines for
professional development in museums. He gave some details about
who Boylan was and said that a revolution was required in the
professional training of museum workers.
In the discussion that followed, Helene said that Museums were
developing in three directions:
1. more
as learning centres than centres of conservation
2.
constructive learning theory fits in with use of museums as
leaning tools
3. ICT
made interactivity possible and easy
Lars pointed out the importance of learning by doing, whilst
Richard said that young people are ahead in the use of ICT and
hence when considering lifelong learning, we need to keep in
mind that young people know a lot about ICT.
The meeting then adjourned for lunch.
8. After lunch, the meeting resumed with a presentation by
Prof Morelli from the University of Metz., Chairman of the
Department of Communication and Education, whose main areas of
research are culture and art in the light of new technologies.
They have three research groups:
1. Pixel
– focussing on new technologies, how to use multimedia
2.
Praxitel – works on the aesthetic aspects
3. Praxis
– works on the practical aspects of communication.
He spoke
about a paper that they presented at the 2003 Paris
International Conference on Museums and New Technologies. He
pointed out the importance of keeping things in their context
when working on memory and not to separate them from it.
Internet allows users to put things in their cultural context;
i.e. it gives you more than just an aesthetic relationship as
happens when seeing a piece of art in an art gallery. He is
working with the National Multimedia Commission that was set up
to look at multimedia and education. His doctoral thesis (2000)
was on multimedia and the contribution of the artist in creating
multimedia. He analysed 10 CDRoms and interviewed 12 artists.
He is working on how ro record a performance on DVD.
Information about the relationship between museums and new
technologies can be found on the website:
http://www.ichim.org.
He has written a book about Theatre and New Technologies. He
said that the book by Brenda Laurel on Computer and Theatre was
too metaphysical and ignores the roles that actors can have in
this kind of theatre.
Helene mentioned another conference on Museums and the Web.
Each partner then presented him/herself to Prof Morelli.
That brought the day’s meeting to an end, and the participants
were taken to visit the Archaeological Museum of Metz. The
participants later met for dinner in a typical French
restaurant.
SATURDAY 4th NOVEMBER.
The meeting on Saturday was held in a hotel in the old centre
of the city of Metz.
9. The Greek participants presented a DVD that they had
produced about their museum in Varnava. It showed the museum
itself and the items exhibited.
10. The
Italian participants presented their website about Nobel prize
winner, the Sicilian poet Salvatore Quasimodo, which includes
recordings from Swedish and Italian Television about the Nobel
Prize ceremony and interviews.
11.
The French partner
presented their CD “e-Learning with Fun”, which includes
sketches to prove the importance of the Internet and exercises
on how to learn to use it. These are based on the popular TV
game “Who wants to be a millionaire?”. They had checked to make
sure that their game, although similar, has enough differences
not to infringe any copyrights. A discussion followed.
12.
The meeting then went
on to discuss the activities for the second year. Augsuts
proposed to start work on preparing a proposal to submit as
Grundtvig1, which would consist of a course on virtual museums.
The project would involve two tasks: the preparation of course
material and the holding of international seminars. The closing
date for submitting proposals for Grundtvig 1 was the 1st
March. Augusts said that he would open a folder in the
Discussion Board of Blackboard for participants to share ideas
on this proposal. E-mails and Skype would also be used as means
of communicating.
13. Augusts reminded the partners who had not already done so
to post a short history of their country on the Blackboard.
The meeting was then closed with Prof Ruplis thanking everybody
for their contribution to the meeting, but in particular Richard
and Christianne, the French hosts, who had looked after the
participants in an excellent and most hospitable manner.
The participants were now looking forward to the next meeting in
Copenhagen on the 19th and 20th January
2007. The third meeting of the year to be held in Messina was
tentatively set for the 25th and 26th May,
but the dates would be confirmed at the Copenhagen meeting.
The meeting was closed and participants were taken to lunch and
then to a walking tour of Metz. They later met for dinner in
an excellent restaurant.
SUNDAY 5th November
The partners from Latvia and Lithuania, Augusts Ruplis, Anita
Eglite, Martins Vedikis, Lina Pauhitiene, and Vaida Radyte
Ziuriene visited some museums in Paris.
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