AAM + ACM session (Five-Minute Media Matinee and Big Impact/Low Budget)

Has your museum been experimenting with different types of media outlets and devices to advance your promotional or educational goals? Do you know of someone who has? We'd like to know about it!

We're looking for short (five minutes maximum) media pieces that illustrate how museums are creatively utilizing the wide array of technologies and outlets available to produce high impact, high quality, low cost media presentations that engage and reach their intended audience(s). The pieces can be audio or video presentations, podcasts, PDA or cell phone tours, PowerPoints, iMovies, databases, or games that were developed for interpretation, PR, development, education, or outreach.

The collected pieces will be shown at companion sessions at the upcoming AAM and ACM conferences in Philadelphia: Five-Minute Media Matinee (Popcorn Included) – ACM April 28, 2009, Tuesday, 3:00 pm; Big Impact/Low Budget  – AAM May 1, 2009, Friday, 9:00 am.

We're writing to invite you to share an example from your own organization or to let us know about work done by colleagues. This is a survey of what's happening in the field not a competition. If you have a piece you think we should consider, please send us the following information in the body of an e-mail by January 9th to [Sara DeAngelis (saradeangelis@earthlink.net) and Suzanne Sarraf (s-sarraf@nga.gov)]

Here are our steps:
1. Send us a brief description of a project you think should be shared with the museum community.
2. We'll be reviewing suggestions from across the field.
3. We'll be selecting examples that represent a cross-section of media and organizations and asking for a copy of the pieces in January 2009. 
4. We intend to share as many examples as we can at the conferences.
Please note we are not gathering the actual media pieces at this time, just suggestions as to what we should consider. Once we have an idea of what's available we will start collecting examples in late January.

Thank you!
Sara DeAngelis (Consultant, Bank Street College), Herminia Din (University of Alaska Anchorage), Liza Reich Rawson (Brooklyn Children's Museum), Gail Ringel (Boston Children's Museum), Suzanne Sarraf (National Gallery of Art)

Please limit your suggestion to one project per museum.
Museum:
Contact (name, e-mail and phone):
Title of piece:
Multimedia type:
Duration:
Audience:
Multimedia piece description (200 words maximum. Please include a brief description of the piece and its goals. If you've done any assessment, tell us what you learned about its impact.):
Budget for multimedia piece (Please specify development, production, and hardware/installation costs.):
1 to 3 sample images:
URL or any related references pertaining to the project: