Dear Rosie,
The comments from everyone about focusing on the content is really sensible. Annette said that "Getting the museum's content accessible (and in a
sustainable way) is probably going to be more important to them than a bells and whistles game". I like the web mashup look and feel of the Moor Stories that Rick mentioned in his post.
What we've been doing is building a platform so that organisations can focus on their content but then use the content as a basis for generating an app.
The platform is web based and allows you to put in content. Then it supports defining what kind of interpretation you have on that content. So for example, do you want a video attached to it, do you want to automatically trigger some text/audio? do you want to share it on social media? do you want to support making audio recording for that content? And also features to allow cross organisation/exhibition links to content. You can have different versions for different audiences so it gives the flexibility to provide a different level of experience/detail for different people. Then the platform generates a native app for you so that what you get is an automatically generated app. The app tracks what visitors have looked at for data analytics.
So maybe this is one way of looking of using apps which would not be game focused, it wouldn't be a one off use of an app. The central thing is the content and then that can content be reused.
We're currently looking at how to use the app as a learning resource.
The platform is called Let's Explore, http://www.lets-explore.com
We've been working with The Lightbox in Woking, Brooklands Museum and Watts Gallery to get feedback in order to produce a user friendly platform. You're
welcome to contact me off list if you'd like to know more about it.
Regards,
Helen
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Dr Helen Treharne
Project Manager, Let's Explore
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computing
University of Surrey
GU2 7XH
Phone: +44 1483 683161
On 28/10/2014 08:00, "Rosie Fuller" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hello
I am working with a small museum (that is, a large collection but a small site). They would like to increase their education provision - increasing access to their collection and supporting learning from school to university level. one of the ways they would like to do this is by creating an app. There has been very little development of the idea so far, and I think before they go any further, it would be good to learn from other organisations' experiences.
I would be grateful for any suggestions of case studies, posts or articles about small teams with small budgets creating apps.
It would also be very useful to hear from anyone who has considered creating an app and then taken a different route.
My question is, really - have organisations found that creating an app is worth the time/money invested in it?
Apologies for cross-posting.
Many thanks,
Rosie
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