Applied Museum Studies Student Resources

Course Resources

• Essay/Research Paper Guidelines - long document - wait for it to load completely!
• Terry Quinlan's Conservation Resources
• Dennis Lloyd's Course Resources

Free Online Lessons and Tutorials

• actDEN (Digital Education Network)
  The tutorials are easy to use. Be sure to check out the "DEN" areas, too - see The Museum of Modern Technology" in the "SkillsDEN" for a Jetsons-like set of cartoon-based tutorials in Operating Systems, Email and Web Browsers.
• Online Lessons from North Dakota State University
• Powerpoint Basics from the University of Alberta
• Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text - What is wrong with sending HTML and MIME messages?
• Windows Explorer: Managing Your Files from Duke University

Other Resources

• Algonquin College Learning Resource Centre
• Museum Job Resources Online
  Museum employment resources, originally assembled by one of our graduates, Joel Long, and now maintained by the Program.
• Reading The Museum
  The Literacy Program of the Canadian Museums Association, a program of demonstration projects, workshops and information-sharing activities to encourage literacy in and through museums. This is a link to past issues of the Program newsletter.
• Bibliographies for Museum Studies
  A Pilot Project Developed in Partnership with Prof. J. Lynne Teather, Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto
• Mouseia, Lynne Teather's museological resources page at the University of Toronto.
• Visitor Studies Bibliography by the Canadian War Museum.
• Google Groups - access to Usenet newsgroups
• Common Errors in English
• Punctuation Made Simple
• The Underground Grammarian - this is WHY good writing skills are so important! Check out the newsletters at the left side of the screen.
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk - the best little guide to grammar since 1935.
• Hate Chemistry? Rather read comics? Do both at
  The Periodic Table of Comic Books
• The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. You can listen to sound clips (under 4 minutes) or read text transcripts. Archive of all shows back to 1988.
• Museum of Ancient Inventions at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts - see "The Exhibit"