Ontario Science Center’s YouTube Flix
We all keep talking about Web 2.0 integration in Museums, but who’s really doing it? The answer is: The Ontario Science Center!
When I found out that the Ontario Science Center was creating videos and posting them on YouTube I thought “These are the smartest guys and gals in Science Museums”. Kudos.
They do it right: not worrying too much about production values, just focusing on the coolness factor, they produce and post exactly the type of videos that would do well on YouTube.
Check out their Plasma Ball video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKMgRQKqDgA
If that were all the cool stuff they were doing it would already be great, but they are a true leader in the integration of the Museum and Web 2.0.
Their Redshift Now website incorporates visitor participation both from home and from within the Museum. My favorite is the stop motion animations folks can do on site and then email to friends and family. The one below is wonderful. An animation someone created for their mother, and the first comment was from “mom”. Like she says, it’s “absolutely wonderful!”
www.redshiftnow.ca/idea/default.aspx?id=2900
All I can say, is Rock On.
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