Museum Box

A group 4 tool that I heard about at the beginning of the year is Museum Box. This can be found at http://museumbox.e2bn.org/.

It presents as a visually exciting way of presenting objects and ideas via text, images (your own or from their files), audio and video. These can be uploaded for marking/viewing if you are from a school on their registration list.

To be honest, I thought this would be a great way to illustrate and explain the few posessions that my great, great, great grandfather arrived in Australia with in 1843. In reality I have struggled with creating a cube with 1 side text and 5 sides photos from Museum Box files. It has taken me 2 attempts and 2 hours. Now I can't even find a link to it! I uploaded it to the "marker" at Museum Box and haven't seen it again. I guess this ensures that Boxes being published comply with ethical and safety policies and are vetted before being made public.

I know that I would need more practice to want to use this in a classroom setting. I can see it being more useful in a Secondary setting where students literacy and computer skills could help them more than Primary.

My reality today was that I could have achieved better results with a real box, writing, drawing and going on a treasure hunt in a classroom or around the school to find relevant items!

For me, I'll put Museum Box in the "I know it's there but I need more work on it" box for now!