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It has been a summer, and I am pleased to be back on the blog. Since last I wrote, I have traveled to Quebec, Bella Coola, and Revelstoke to work on cool projects; I have battled tent caterpillars and a particularly recalcitrant red squirrel in my garden; and I have managed to take a few days off here and there, too.
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I hope you are well and looking forward to a fun and productive winter.
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Structuring an Interpretive Program
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Want to create a program that meets your goals and your audience's goals too? Here are five basic things you have to keep in mind.
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Evaluating Your Products
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When it comes to measuring your success, you can take a numbers-based or a more subjective approach. We're going to look at doing both, starting with the quantitative. I have written a bit over the last while about program evaluation. You might want to get an intro to my way of thinking by…
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We don't need to endorse in order to interpret.
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Over the course of my forty-year career (yikes!) I have made a long shift from natural history to cultural history interpretation. The transition has been... interesting. See, when you interpret birds or rocks or stars, you generally don't argue for those things' moral goodness or purity. Yes, you might defend their place within their ecosystem and the things they provide …
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Quantifying Sparkle: Standards in Personal Programs
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Defining Standards for Personal Interpretive Programs I’ve had the opportunity, over the last few years, to do a great deal of traveling. I’m up to 54 countries and counting now, though my time in each has been tantalizingly brief. And as I travel, I manage to attend quite a few interpretive programs. I think it’s interesting to see the different …
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