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OBJECTS IN FOCUS: TEACHERS’ RESOURCES REACHING BEYOND THE MUSEUM WALLS
Introduction to Jewish Museum London
Jewish Museum London Learning Team
1983-1995 London Museum of Jewish Life
1995-2007Albert Street
1932Woburn House
2010 Museums merge, reopen in Camden
Jewish Museum London Learning Team
Judaism: A Living Faith History: A British Story
Arts Council England. Museums and Schools Partnership Programmeo National project across 10 regions.o Responding to Henley Review.o Aim for the visits is to spark young people's curiosity and encourage a lifelong passion for culture and learning. o Jewish Museum brief was to welcome 5000 students on 3 visits to the museum. 15,000 visits in total.o Develop ‘downloadable resources from the website and offer the opportunity for hundreds of schools to engage with the programme’.
Jewish Museum London Learning Team
Brief for Objects in Focuso Further study options to support existing workshops.o Downloadable resources to support First World War workshop.o Enable the Museum to extend engagement with wider audiences.o 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
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
Design ConceptDesign used the ACE Quality Principles as a framework
o Designed to be used primarily in the classroom
o Visually engaging and easy to navigate
o Ease of Maintenance
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Timeline and Budget
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Budget of £5000, excluding staff time
November 2012
ACE project begins
January 2013
Fran recruited
February 2013
Objects in Focus begins
March 31st 2013
Budget signed off
October 2013
Objects in Focus goes live
March 2014
Shortlisted for M&H award
Starting a Hierarchy of Information
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Building a Template
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Choosing the Objects
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Many of these were not used.
Object Information
Next stageso Review the objects displayed and respond to student/teacher evaluation and curriculum changes
o Increase the number of Digital Takeaways
o To test feasibility of adding audio layer
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Evaluationo Google Analyticso First 3 months 3833 page viewso Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll
o Student Response – what we discovered o Most viewed page was Kinder baby dollo We were intrigued that students wanted to see video interpretation exploring how
objects were made or usedo Students enjoyed the objects that showed more than one image of the object o The majority of the students wished to have interpretation of the objects by museum
staff.
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/objects-in-focus
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Questions
Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources
Tali Krikler
Frances Jeens