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State-of-the-Art: German
Museums on the Social Web.
1. Social Media for Museum
Education Projects
2. Benefits and Effects for Self-
directed and Collaborative Learning
with Social Media in Museums

2.
Weimarpedia
• blended learning project
• school classes (age 10-16 years)
• several museums and historical sights
• dealing with topics of the Weimar Classic at
school and onsite with different digital
technologies (e.g. Internet, iPads, wiki)

3.
Project details
• started in 2009 and ends this year
• aim is to connect school learning with
museum visits
• 20 groups per year
• 2,5 employees of the Klassik Stiftung and 4
employees of the Bauhaus University Weimar
• to guarantee a personal and contextualized
experience with a combination of offsite and
onsite learning

4.
Project course
• downloadable course materials for school
learning
• visit in Weimar lasts between 3 and 5 days
• Questionnaire, guided tour, creative work
(photo-stories, films, radio plays), wiki articles

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Weimarpedia

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Weimarpedia

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Weimarpedia

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Weimarpedia

9.
The Wiki
• students write, add or modify articles on their
ipads
• a permanent beta version is not established
yet
• content design, website structure or
participatory elements within the wiki are still
being discussed
• a collective knowledge archive

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ArchäoLOGIN
• blended learning project for the exhibit
“Fundgeschichten”
• school classes (age 10-16 years)
• use of digital technology (iPad and a Blog) to
guarantee self-directed and collaborative
learning about the different objects and their
stories.

11.
Project details
• started in April and ended in November 2011
• idea to improve the traditional school visits at
museums and to teach students how to retrieve
relevant information about museum objects, how
to use an iPad and a blog and last but not least
how to publish an article online
• 2 employees
• to guarantee a personal and contextualized
experience with a combination of traditional
analysis and new publishing methods for articles

12.
Project course
• two parts (2 hours)
• small groups of 4 people
• learn more about a specific object
• gathered information is brought together and
the students start writing their articles

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The Blog
• students write, add or modify articles on their
iPads
• blog is not being used as a communication
tool (no comments, no exchange, no
blogosphere)
• a collective knowledge archive

18.
Conclusion
• collaboration within blended learning projects
is onsite-related
• hardly any participatory elements online
(comment- or share-functions, chats etc.)
• potential of social media is not exploited
• social media is utilized to document and
archive results
• no learning/ knowledge-building online

19.
Potential Benefits and Effects for Learning
with Social Media in Museums
• “understanding”, “learning” and “knowledge”
as individual results
• documentation, observation and evaluation
• easy to guarantee communication,
information, personalization, networking and
exchange
• active participation and collaboration to foster
engagement, involvement and motivation to
guarantee learning online