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Training
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Online Museum Classes
Description:
Whether by design or accident, many museums find themselves with small collections of small animals - sometimes for exhibit, sometimes not; sometimes for educational program use, sometimes not. Determine which animals work best for your purposes. Know how to care for the animals considering healthy diets, appropriate exhibit or non-exhibit caging, guest safety, veterinary care, and needed permits.
Course Outline:
1. Pros and Cons of Live Animal Exhibits
2. Role of Live Animals in Museums
3. Good and Not-So-Good Animals for Small Exhibits
4. Cages, Feeding, Enrichment Considerations
5. Training Animals and People in Handling
Logistics:
Participants in Keeping Small Animals will read literature and participate in two one-hour chats to discuss problems they have experienced with keeping small animals. Each student should read course materials and prepare questions or comments to share with the other students in the chat. This is a mini-course and takes no more than 10 hours of a student's time. This is an opportunity to brain-storm with colleagues about what works and what doesn't work.
To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
The Instructor:
Karin Hostetter has over thirty years experience with
museum education. With a career that includes natural
history museums, cultural history museums (including first
person interpretation), nature centers, and zoos, Ms.
Hostetter is experienced in interpretive writing, program
and curriculum development, and staff and volunteer
training. As a museum educator, she was Curator of
Education for the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife
Sanctuary (McKinney, TX). Among her award-winning
education curricula are several programs she developed for
the education departments during her five years at the
Heard Museum and her twelve years on staff at the Denver
Zoo. As an interpretive writer, Ms. Hostetter has written
text for exhibits, wayside exhibits, visitor brochures, and
professional magazines. Her skill is in making technical
information understandable and meaningful to visitors.
Karin has worked with volunteers throughout her career,
becoming the first paid volunteer coordinator at the Denver
Zoo. Ms. Hostetter taught the National Association for
Interpretation's two-day volunteer management course for
volunteer coordinators and served on their panel about
volunteer programs. She authored a series of articles for
the National Association for Interpretation's Legacy
magazine, providing guidelines for developing and
maintaining a volunteer organization. Ms. Hostetter now
consults with organizations on structuring and improving
volunteer programs.
Over the years, Ms. Hostetter has been
responsible for small animal exhibits and animal care at
both the Heard Museum and the Denver Zoo. She worked with
wild animal rehabilitation and public education animals,
work that included training volunteer animal handlers.
Karin co-founded the Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Aquaria
special interest section of the National Association for
Interpretation.
Karin Hostetter is owner of Interpret This,
a consulting company specializing in interpretive writing,
program and curriculum development, and volunteer program
management. When she is not consulting with other museums,
she likes to volunteer and contract teach at them with a
special love for preschool and family programs.
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