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21 May 2013 5:00 pm
Have you ever had one of those moments of the blinding obvious where you almost slap yourself upside the head? Well, I had one last week at Lowell National Historical Park during the third iteration of the Facilitated Dialogue class. When sharing research about visitors’ preference for dialogic programs at the Tenement Museum, course leader Sarah Pharaon of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, said that what visitors valued most was interacting with the other visitors in the museum.
Part of the resource, riding through the
resource on another part of the
resource. What's their part of the story?
It was in that moment I realized that our visitors, real and virtual, are part of the tangible...
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