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 * CS52. Masha Turchinsky & Team **; **Cathy Saunders; Emine and Banu Bedel; Mark Dzula** – //Innovative Museum Practices Panel//

May 27 Friday 9:00-10:30 PM HM 148

Explore innovative museum practices with this diverse group of museum educators as they share and discuss a range of topics including: unearthing and interacting with the MET Museum’s collection through their digital // Inside the Museum project //, the importance of the setting as a scaffolding to creativity and imagination, the role of play on improving the effectiveness of museum education, and discover what happens when visitors respond to art by making art of their own.

Affiliation/Bio: Turchinsky, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Teachers College, masha.turchinsky@metmuseum.org. Masha Turchinsky, Senior Publishing and Creative Manager for Digital Media at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed.M. candidate in International Educational Development--Language, Literacy and Technology. Creative Director for Guitar Heroes, the Met’s first mobile app. Special focus on building multiliteracies and cultural capital through art and participatory experiences in museums.

Co-presenter: Dan Shields-Developer and Technical Director for Connections (www.metmuseum.org/connections) and The Timeline of Art History at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org/toah)

Co-presenter: Don Undeen-Information Architect at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Co-presenter: Adam Squires, Designer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Director of The Timeline of Art History (www.metmuseum.org/toah) and Connections (www.metmuseum.org/connections) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Co-presenter: Cathy Saunders, Providence Children’s Museum, saunders@childrenmuseum.org. Cathy Saunders has been director of education at Providence Children’s Museum since 2005. She oversees the Museum’s educational programs and visitor experience as well as training of the Museum’s educator corps and professional development workshops for pre-school and out-of-school time program leaders. Previously, Saunders was the science camp coordinator at Science Museum of Minnesota for eight years. As a volunteer, she has trained non-violent witnesses, been an on-air community radio host and mentored student activists. Her artistic creative expression has been through dance – modern and improv dance forms and folk dancing. Saunders holds a B.A. in Human Ecology – the study of humans’ relationships with their social and physical environments – from Macalester College and an M.S.Ed. in Museum Education Leadership from Bank Street College of Education.

Co-presenter: Emine Bedel, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, ferdabedel@hotmail.com; Banu Bedel, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Emine Ferda BEDEL, BS Hacettepe University, MEd and Ph D Pennsylvania State University, currently working as assistant professor at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Banu BEDEL, BArch and MCP Middle East Technical University, MS Arch University of Cincinnati, currently working at Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Co-presenter: Mark Dzula, Teachers College, markdzula@gmail.com. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mark Dzula is a freelance educator with museums and cultural institutions around New York City. He is also the director of Juke Box Radio, a performance group for kids. As a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Mark is interested in understanding the relationship between art, communications, and education.