First meeting

Rachel and Liz met with Hillary Cook at Cosi on Michigan at 10:00 am October 9th.

They came up with a time line:

The dates are Mondays and refer to weeks.

Oct 12
Oct 19
Oct 26 - Meet with Hillary/Robin, submit focus group questions
Nov 2 - Week of Nov 2 or Nov 9: FOCUS GROUP, submit benchmarks report
Nov 9
Nov 16 - Nov 13- 30 Hillary out; Nov 13-30 create/develop teen
programs web 2.0 pages
Nov 23
Nov 30
Dec 3 - Present to Hillary/Robin
Dec 10

What we need to do:

- appointing a scheduler of meetings
- divvying up regions for benchmarks report
- appointing a co-wrangler (with Hillary) of teens for focus group
- the creation of a survey
- the creation of questions/framework/visual references for our focus group

Summary:

A good way to start would be researching other museums’ cyber-based initiatives for teen audiences to use as benchmarks. Perhaps each of us can choose ten institutions to research and comment on as models for our project. During this process, it would also be beneficial to look other Chicago institutions and organizations in an effort to build relationships with other teen programs in the area.

We will also conduct a focus group with teens involved in the museum to learn about how they use technology and what they would like to see us provide for their audience. To expand our sample group and incorporate teens that are not already involved in existing programs at the museum, we would also like to develop a survey or questionnaire to distribute at drop-in teen events.

Finally, we will use the above research to develop a blog and webpages on Facebook, MySpace, Flickr/Picasa, YouTube, and perhaps iTunes U that will be integrated into Teen Programs. These sites will provide publicity for programs, encourage discussion and social networking, and will provide online galleries for teens to exhibit their work created at the museum.