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Member Newsletter of the Museum Education Roundtable Fall 2005 Mark Your Calendars... January 2, 2006 - Applications for the EdCom Annual Meeting Fellowship are due. January 10, 2006, 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. – Cultural Educators of Miami Meeting: Programming for People with Disabilities and Access Issues, Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. RSVP to Mark Osterman. January 12, 2006, 9:15 a.m. – Greater Boston Museum Educators Roundtable Program: Open-Ended Programs And Play For Families With Young Children: A Field Trip To The Childrens Discovery Museum, The Discovery Museums, Acton MA January 17, 2006 – Deadline for Winter issue of Network February 3, 2006 – 1-2 p.m. MER Board Meeting (Conference Call) February 7, 2006 - Greater Boston Museum Educators Roundtable Program: Museum/Library Collaborations, Boston Public Library February 8, 2006 – Cultural Connections (Northern CA) Program: Writing for Professional Publication, JFK University, Berkeley February 15, 2006 - Nominations for EdCom's Awards for Excellence are due. March 1, 2006 - Great Tours Workshop, presented by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, co-sponsored by AASLH. Winston-Salem, NC; Cost: $55, attendance is limited March 3-5, 2006 – AASLH Professional Development Program: Telling the Tough Stories: A workshop and dialogue about museums, their commuity, and the ethics of interpreting slavery, Belle Meade Plantation, Nashville, TN March 17, 2006 – Deadline for Spring issue of Network March 22-26, 2006 – National Art Education Association Conference, Chicago, IL April 11, 2006 – Greater Boston Museum Educators Roundtable Program: Administration & Staffing Issues, Location TBA April 12, 2006 - Cultural Connections (Northern CA) Program: Public Speaking Workshop, Location TBD April 24, 2006 – Great Tours Workshop, presented by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, co-sponsored by AASLH. New Jersey; Cost: $55, attendance is limited. April 27 - May 1, 2006 – American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, Boston, MA April 27, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. – MER Board Meeting at AAM April 27, 2006, 6 - 9 p.m. - MER will be co-hosting the opening evening event at AAM with EdCom on at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum. This event will also include the presentations of EdCom’s Awards for Excellence. April 29, 2006 9-10:15 a.m. – MER AAM session: "Who Cares? Being Relevant to Less Frequent or Reluctant Visitors" April 29, 2006, 5:30- 7:00 p.m. – Museum Education Roundtable Reception at AAM. Held at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. The speaker will be Gail Anderson who will connect the Journal of Museum Education, spring issue topic, "Museums of Relevance," to her recent publication Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift. May 19-20, 2006 – Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum will host a two-day symposium to examine new definitions of literacy in relationship to arts integrated teaching and learning practices. June 4 - 8, 2006 – The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums 2006 Conference And Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA June 14, 2006 - Cultural Connections (Northern CA) Program: Paradigm Shift: Income-Generating Programming, Location TBD August 13-14, 2006, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. – MER Board Meeting (Washington, D.C.) August 15, 2006, 9:30-11:30 a.m. – MER program (topic TBA), Washington D.C. September 13 - 16, 2006, American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ October 29, 2006 – Great Tours Workshop, presented by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, co-sponsored by AASLH. Baltimore, MD; Cost: $55, attendance is limited. |
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