Two thousand and sixteen was a big year for me at the California Academy of Sciences. Lots of pivots, adventures and new beginnings! Here’s some of the highlights. The biggest news was my transfer in the Spring from Digital Learning over the Science Action Club team. Shifting from managing my own youth program to being part …
My colleague at the American Museum of Natural History Barry Joseph posted recently to the DML Central blog a post on "the Digitallearnification of Museums". This was based on a presentation that Barry, Eve Gaus of the Field Museum, and I made at the Digital Media and Learning conference a couple of months ago at …
Guys, this is the most amazing arachnid ever , the Bird dropping spider (Cyrtarachne sp.). Apparently the pulsing is caused by contractions in the gut of the spider that contain pigmented cells. There is no consensus about the evolutionary advantage of this, but it presumably could be to mimic a predator or warn would-be predators. More pics …
We took some nice group shots today of my Science Action Club team in front of the Cal Academy for our holiday greeting. Such a handsome bunch! We're so diverse and coordinated we look like a stock photo.