Equally comfortable in a lecture hall, conference plenary, classroom or workshop setting, I am deeply committed to teaching, sharing knowledge and creating situations that facilitate collaborative learning. Here are some of the subjects I teach.
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Adjunct Lecturer in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information, where I teach in the Master of Museum Studies program and supervise student internships. In the fall of 2018, I'm teaching a new elective course I developed called "Artifact, Audience, Text: Writing in the Museum."
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Co-founder, together with Meredith Leonard, of the Ontario Museum Association Summer Institute, offered for the first time in 2018.
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Course Director for Exhibit Planning & Design, one of nine courses in the Ontario Museum Association's Certificate in Museum Studies.
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Previous faculty appointment in the Fleming College Museum Management and Curatorship program, where I developed and taught a one-term course that introduced students to the use of Adobe Creative Suite for the development of exhibit graphic panels.
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Exhibit development workshops for participants in the Myseum of Toronto Intersections Festival.
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One-to-three day exhibit development workshops. Past clients include The Organization of Military Museums of Canada, the Kawartha Lakes Historical Society and the City of Kingston's Cultural Services Department.
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Traditional maritime skills, including boat building, canoe building, boat and canoe restoration, half-model making and small craft sailing and seamanship.
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Exhibit fabrication, exhibit model-making and workshop practices.