Along with curators from four other campus museums and collections, Alla Barabtarlo and Kelli Hansen made presentations on using material culture in K-12 social studies and English classes at the Columbia Public Schools Faculty Professional Development conference last week. The room was full of educators interested in using the collections in their teaching. We’ve set up a listserv for anyone interested in discussing material culture in education at MU. If you would like to join, email Kelli at hansenkb@missouri.edu.
In other outreach news, Special Collections was trending on Tumblr again last week! We’ve had a lot of activity on the account, so here are just a few of the best-performing posts from this month:
- Everyone out of the water! It’s Shark Week!
- Dogs, Jackals, Wolves and Foxes, and an Adopt a Book program update
- Butterflies and moths (and cute fuzzy caterpillars!) by artist Eleazar Albin
- Reading lessons in the nineteenth century (with animated gifs)
- Lynd Ward’s sinister wood engravings for Madman’s Drum, 1930
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