CLIO Design Proposals
Overview
Numerous proposals were drafted for CLIO and its precursors with each one improving on the last by widening the scope. These proposals are provided to illustrate the design process and evolution of the CLIO project from its inception.
Burke Museum
Oral History Kiosk
We submitted a proposal for University of Washington’s Resilience and Compassion Lab micro seed grant named “Many Voices: A Storytelling Toolkit for Community-Based Oral History Projects”. The project would be based on previous work by the Eastwick Oral History Project[1] at the University of Pennsylvania. We would fabricate an interactive kiosk exhibit for the Burke Museum and it would use entirely free- and open-source technologies.
BurkeBox Object Kiosk
We submitted a proposal to the Burke Museum's Education department for a technology project that would work to supplement their existing BurkeBox program. The Burke Box[2] is an educational program provided by the Burke Museum that delivers lesson plans, resources and museum-quality objects directly to classrooms. This program provides engagement and enrichment to elementary and middle school students about earth science, life science, and culture. Generally, these interactive lesson plans were facilitated by trained educators.
We would be creating the first ‘advanced learner’ Burke Box, intended for high school students. This new Burke Box would be about the effects of nuclear development on ‘downwinders’ in Hanford, WA. Our lesson plans followed Washington State educational standards to include content from local history and culture, geology and physics, as well as multimedia recordings and first-hand accounts from those affected by the nuclear development.
BurkeMobile Object Kiosk
There were changes in Burke Museum personnel that resulted in our project being moved from the BurkeBox program to the BurkeMobile[3] program. This program, unlike the Burke Box, traveled to schools and community events outside of King county to facilitate pop-up exhibits educating about the very same subjects: life science, earth science and culture. At these events, museum educators would direct a lesson for groups of up to 30 students before inviting them to independently explore their collection of carefully-curated exhibits.
We submitted a proposal to the Burke Museum's Education department for a technology project that would work to supplement their existing BurkeMobile program. We wanted to integrate a digital kiosk into the pop-up exhibits that would behave similarly to the Oral History Kiosk, where visitors could bring an object up to a wireless NFC scanner and pull up a related digital interactive activity to learn more.
CLIO
After deliberation about the original BurkeMobile project proposal, it was decided that a kiosk that required visitors to manually move objects to it might disrupt the flow of the exhibit setup.
Slater Museum
Nature in the Classroom Online
Evergreen State College
Community-Focused Technology Development
