Digital Heritage

Second Semester 2008-9:

• Inroduction Aims, Content and Assessment of the course (Week 1)

• Theorising Digital Heritage (Week 2)

• Curating Museums on the Web (Week 3)

• From Organisation to User: the changing focus of a museum website (with Malcolm Chapman, Head of Collections Development, Manchester Museum) (Week 4)

• Constructing Websites (Week 5)

• Fieldtrip to Churchill Museum (Week 6)

• Digitally Enhanced Galleries: Interactivity and Interactives (Week 7 )

• Project Presentations (Week 8 )

• Social Media, Online Communities and User-Generated Content (Week 9)

• Developing Haptic Experiences in Museums (with Christopher Dean, Freelance Product Development Consultant and Sam Sportun, Senior Conservator, Manchester Museum) (Week 10)

• ‘mi-Guide’: Developing and Evaluating a Handheld Multimedia Guide at the Museum of Science and Industry (with Pauline Webb, Museum of Science and Industry, Duncan Bates, University of Salford and Dr Kate Booth, University of Salford) (Week 11)

• Conclusion: Reflecting on the course’s ‘Blog Reflections’ (Week 12)