The Knowledgeable Object PROGRAM, PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS Tuesday 27th November 2018 Wednesday 28th November 2018 Macquarie University 10 Hadenfeld Avenue #OBLCoP The Knowledgeable Object [email protected] AUSTRALIAN HISTORY MUSEUM & MUSEUM OF ANCIENT CULTURES Faculty of Arts The Knowledgeable Object Some scholars note that objects have a dual character, or contradictory nature. Their nature is definitive, observable, readily described and immutable. On the other-hand they lack fixity, are readily re-contextualised, multiply reinterpreted and ascribed highly variable values in their engagement with our ever- changing knowledge systems. Is it this tension between object and context that makes them Museum of Ancient Cultures, Macquarie University such effective educational tools and mediators Objects are often said to be sticky with of meaning? meaning. Over the next two days we will explore what it Ever since antiquity they have been a is that makes objects so valuable in fundamental way of knowing the world. They educational and museum contexts. are also a focus for transmitting our This symposium is a result of a Macquarie understanding of the world to others and, as University learning and teaching strategic such, are both vessels that embody meaning priorities project about connecting museum and understanding of the human experience in collections with both university and school museum collections around the world, and curriculum. primary source materials for a diverse range of learning and teaching possibilities. JANE THOGERSEN ANDREW SIMPSON EVE GUERRY GINA HAMMOND LEONARD JANISZEWSKI The #OBLCoP Project Team [Object Based Learning Community of Practice] Faculty of Arts Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia AHM0235, Australian History Museum E: [email protected] collection (photo: Effy Alexakis) The Knowledgeable Object – Day 1 Workshop: Tuesday 27 November 2018 Registration *Sign up for Lunch Time activity – limited places From 9:00am Location: 10 Hadenfeld Avenue (Y3A), Macquarie University Best Parking: Hadenfeld Avenue (Y1) carpark (remember to place your free parking permit on your dashboard) Morning Session 10:00am Introduction and housekeeping Gina Hammond 10:15am What is #OBL ? Jane Thogersen Stream 1 – Pilot Project Teachers Stream 2 – OBL Delegates Crafting your Collections: creating craft Introductory Presentations 10:30am 10:30am activities for the big kids in your collection. Chair: Eve Guerry Stephanie Chinneck Teacher Pilot Presentations Different ways to look at a source. 11:00am 11:10am Eve Guerry Gina Hammond GD: Feedback, Sharing Ideas and Telling Stories – Objects and history with 11:30am Innovation. Eve Guerry, Jane 11:30am different audiences. Leonard Janiszewski Thogersen 12:00pm Lunch Break *Join our local GamesGuru for some optional workshop games and networking opportunities! Limited spaces, so remember to sign up in the morning Afternoon Session 10 Minute Targeted Presentations Release the hounds: Liberating objects (and learners) 1:00 pm Beverley Miles from museums (and classrooms) 1:10 pm Case study: Making Object Collections Discoverable Barbara Palmer 1:20 pm Accessible Learning at the Australian Museum Ashleigh Harrington Enabling future teachers to integrate source-based 1:30 pm Alistair Kwan learning in the classroom 1:40 pm OBL in the simulated field archaeology classroom Eve Guerry How to approach ethical concerns with sensitive 1:50 pm Rebecca Kummerfel collections for OBL All speakers., 2:00 pm Chaired Questions Panel Chair: Andrew Simpson 2:15pm Short Tea Break 2:30pm Group Workshops Activity 3:15pm Output Presentations and Wrap-Up 4:00pm Close See you at the Symposium on the 28th 2 The Knowledgeable Object – Day 2 Symposium: Wednesday 28 November 2018 Registration *Sign up for activities scheduled throughout the day – limited places From 8:30am Location: 10 Hadenfeld Avenue (Y3A), Macquarie University Best Parking: Hadenfeld Avenue (Y1) carpark (remember to place your free parking permit on your dashboard) Morning Session 9:30am Introductions & Housekeeping Andrew Simpson Welcome to Country Chris Tobin 9:45am Keynote: The Matter of Education: Thoughts on History, Teaching Alistair Kwan and Learning 10:20am Session 1: #OBLCoP Project Chair: Martin Bommas 10:20 am Training Workshop summary Workshop participant/s 10:25 am Integrating museum objects across campus disciplines Andrew Simpson 10:35 am Mapping objects to learning and teaching units Georgia Barker 10:45 am Integrating museum objects into learning and teaching in the Eve Guerry school classroom 10:55 am Chaired Questions Panel All speakers 11:05 am Session 2: Archaeological material & practice in education Chair: Eve Guerry 11:10am Using Archaeology Collections in the classroom Helen Nicholson 11:25am The Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project Martin Bommas 11:30am Beni Hassan @ Macquarie. Co-creating a digital archive with Nicolle Leary students 11:35am Parramatta Archaeology Anna Namuren 11:40am An Afternoon of ceramics and Stranger Things: A Year 5 Inquiry Penny Crook Session 11:45am Archaeometric Analysis of Museum Collection: Engaging new Carla Raymond audiences 11:50am Chaired Questions Panel All speakers 12:00pm Lunch break + games & activities Afternoon Session 1:00 pm Session 3: Digital object based learning Chair: Penelope Edwell 1:05pm A Museum Made Digital Kyla McFarlane 1:20pm Pedestal 3D - A Purpose built object based learning web platform Michael Rampe 1:35pm Applications of the Image Matrix Online Tool in Teaching and Nathan Daczko Outreach 1:50pm Chaired Questions Panel All speakers 2:00 pm Session 4: Empowering the collection for engagement Chair: Gina Hammond 2:05pm Using artefacts to develop historical empathy Denis Mootz 2:20pm Animation as a means to explain the biography and significance Ray Laurence of objects 2:35pm In the Steps of Emanuel Ringelblum: A milk can, a silk program, a Paul Bentley portrait of Doris Fitton, and the Sydney Opera House Architectural model on a stud farm 2:50-3pm Chaired Questions Panel All speakers 3:00pm Afternoon Tea 3 3:20pm Session 5: Creative discipline links Chair: Leonard Janiszewski 3:25pm Using objects to teach students from non-traditional museum Craig Barker visiting subject areas: The experiences of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney 3:40pm Interactivity for Identity Ellie Downing 3:45pm Making the Medical Accessible - An example from the Harry Daly Alison Wishart Museum 3:50pm Cross-disciplinary curation of rocks and art, neither rock art nor Andrew Simpson rocket science 3:55pm Social history OBL - breaking down barriers for lifelong learning Jane Thogersen 4:00pm Artist Books Stephen Copland 4:05pm Small Museum Big Mission Penelope Edwell 4:10pm Chaired Questions Panel All speakers 4:20pm Object Café panel - What is it and how could you use it? Chair: Andrew Simpson 4:50pm Wrap-up and Thank you 5:15pm Join us in the Museum of Ancient Cultures for wine and cheese and networking … 4 SELECTED WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS The Knowledgeable Object – Day 1 What is #OBL? is shared with aggregation services, it’s possible to explore a number of collections at the same time. Skills are then needed to construct a Jane will discuss the Object Based Learning approach and how search, and filter the results. In the best cases, you can copy or it has informed the methodology underpinning this workshop. download information to use in teaching and learning. Let’s start a Jane Thogersen discussion about how teachers and students can find useful Crafting your Collections: creating craft information, and what they would like to do with object information activities for the big kids in your collection when they have it. Crafting activities can transform interactions with objects and lead to Barbara Palmer new experiences, responses and learning outcomes. This workshop Accessible Learning at the Australian Museum will explore the possibilities for creating engaging activities for an Access and inclusion practices are often developed in isolation, adult audience with your collection. And yes, you will get to take applied as an afterthought rather than integrated into everyday something home with you. practice. Stephanie Chinneck The Australian Museum’s Science Engagement and Events (SEE) team Different ways to look at a source (lead by Ashleigh Harrington) have been actively working over the An object is a source, that source can become a window into so many past three years to make their education events, like the Science different areas, including historic events, technical or economic Festival, as accessible as possible, with the aim of the Festival being developments, movements and people. This morning we will an accessible event by 2020. workshop a selection of objects and consider how they could inform Hear about what we have been doing, who we’ve been talking to, how an understanding of contemporary society and develop skills such as we’ve been adapting our practice, and everything we still have left to critical analysis. do! Gina Hammond Ashleigh Harrington Telling Stories – Objects and history with Enabling future teachers to integrate source- different audiences based learning in the classroom An artefact is more than its physical form. Objects such as multi- Empowering our educators through innovative ways of accessing coloured etched mirrors, badged silver-plated and ceramic tableware sources to facilitate experiences that extend beyond the traditional or gleaming soda fountain counters can give voice to multiple histories classroom walls means that our education