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Making Connections: Using Mobile Phones as a Museum Tool
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Manabe, Makoto; Lydens, Lois – Journal of Museum Education, 2007
Mobile phones have been steadily gaining appreciation among the museum community as a versatile tool. The new generation of mobile phones allows museums to imagine a whole new range of applications, including audiovisual personal tours and live-feed broadcasting. Personal tours using mobile phones are appealing to museum educators since patrons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Telecommunications, Nonschool Educational Programs
Digital Technology at the National Science Museum of Japan
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Lydens, Lois; Saito, Yasuji; Inoue, Tohru – Journal of Museum Education, 2007
The National Science Museum (NSM) in Japan has recently completed a project using different types of visitor-oriented digital technologies. With sponsorship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the NSM team carried out a four-year study to examine how digital technologies can be used to enhance as well as educationally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Handheld Devices, Nonschool Educational Programs