A presentation given by John McCarter at the TTI/Vanguard "Serious Fun" conference.

1. Creating Online
Experiences
John McCarter - The Field Museum

2. The Museum on the Web
Building for the future

3. • fieldmuseum.org is one of the first
major sites to launch in Drupal 7
• Top-to-bottom overhaul with
extensibility foremost in mind

4. So what’s next?

5. Gems & Jewels eBook
The Field Museum... To Go

6. • A collection, an exhibit, a book, and
now an interactive experience
available on iTunes for iPad
• A marriage of Museum collections,
scientific expertise, and digital
platforms

7. Gems Video

8. Abbott Hall of
Conservation
Designing for Digital

9. • Exhibit interactions evolved: from
placard to video to digital media
• Kid-friendly media reveals and
explains complex scientific
concepts

10. Abbott Hall Video

11. WhyReef
Virtual Learning through Games

12. • Game-based learning of Museum
science in a virtual world
• Over 140,000 unique visitors in the
first year

13. WhyReef video

14. Digital Planet
Learning to solve problems for the 21st Century

15. • A new Museum Experience for a
new generation
• Interaction and participation
strengthens lifelong engagement
with science and the Museum

16. Digital Planet video

17. Science Podcasts
Behind the Scenes at the Field Museum

18. • Sharing with the world our wealth of
knowledge and expertise
• Real people, doing real science,
every day

19. Science Podcast video

20. Epilogue
Natural History is Change & Evolution

21. The Field Museum
fieldmuseum.org