OBJECTS IN FOCUS: TEACHERS’ RESOURCES REACHING BEYOND THE MUSEUM WALLS

Introduction to Jewish Museum London Jewish Museum London Learning Team London Museum of Jewish Life Albert Street 1932 Woburn 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 Programme o 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 Focus o 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 Concept Design 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 31 st 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 stages o 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

Evaluation o Google Analytics o First 3 months 3833 page views o Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll o Student Response – what we discovered o Most viewed page was Kinder baby doll o We were intrigued that students wanted to see video interpretation exploring how objects were made or used o 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.

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Questions Objects in Focus: Teachers’ Resources Tali Krikler Frances Jeens