WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 1 00:00:00.099 --> 00:00:05.960 Explain to us where are you working and why it is that some of the collaboration you are 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:12.370 doing is quite unique either from a geographic standpoint or some of the subject matter that 3 00:00:12.370 --> 00:00:14.880 you are collaborating around as a 21st Century skill? 4 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:16.270 My name is Rich Cherry. 5 00:00:16.270 --> 00:00:18.500 I am from the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. 6 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:22.120 That’s a collaborative of 20 museums and cultural organizations in Balboa Park, San 7 00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:23.120 Diego. 8 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:24.620 Balboa Park is one of the largest parks. 9 00:00:24.620 --> 00:00:33.910 It’s a bit bigger than the Central Park and all these organizations are maybe totally 10 00:00:33.910 --> 00:00:40.132 completely on to the geographic location. 11 00:00:40.132 --> 00:00:44.030 And so it’s a different kind of collaboration than what a lot of collaborations between 12 00:00:44.030 --> 00:00:50.770 museums and libraries that are happening at the national level, where you have a group 13 00:00:50.770 --> 00:00:54.430 of highly motivated people that are interested in a particular subject matter. 14 00:00:54.430 --> 00:00:59.819 We are working with bunch of disparate institutions everything from you know Air and Space museum 15 00:00:59.819 --> 00:01:05.840 to an art museum to an anthropology museum, to a national history center. 16 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:10.700 And the collaboration piece is about using sheer technology to cause those organizations 17 00:01:10.700 --> 00:01:14.159 to improve their ability to kind of serve the mission. 18 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:20.380 So when you look at you know a national history museum and an anthropology museum a lot of 19 00:01:20.380 --> 00:01:25.560 that stuff that technology does is very similar and yet these organizations were going after 20 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:29.700 their own direction whether it’s website development or infrastructure work or you 21 00:01:29.700 --> 00:01:31.710 know as they do in most organization. 22 00:01:31.710 --> 00:01:34.670 They all have a silo for each one of those things. 23 00:01:34.670 --> 00:01:50.659 The challenge is that we are doing a geographic collaboration versus a subject specific collaboration 24 00:01:50.659 --> 00:02:03.659 is that the varying levels of capacity within each organization you know at a national level 25 00:02:03.659 --> 00:02:04.950 collaboration where I have been involved in the average consumption. 26 00:02:04.950 --> 00:02:06.900 We had a bunch of highly motivated people from a variety of organization very specifically 27 00:02:06.900 --> 00:02:07.900 interested in getting their end results to educate themselves. 28 00:02:07.900 --> 00:02:08.900 The three of our museums that we have at the park, they are all of varying capacities about 29 00:02:08.900 --> 00:02:09.900 doing that, they really like the idea but they may not have the right people on staff 30 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:10.900 that they are going to be the leaders or even the thinkers, it’s about how do you do something. 31 00:02:10.900 --> 00:02:21.240 So what we do is we take a lot of time spending in teaching, bringing in national level speakers 32 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:26.500 to talk about particular areas like social media, how that affects the cultural organization, 33 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:28.090 but also taking those in, people from museums to conferences, facilitating that. 34 00:02:28.090 --> 00:02:29.090 So there are times they meet each other at the conference even though they work in an 35 00:02:29.090 --> 00:02:30.340 institution that’s right next door. 36 00:02:30.340 --> 00:02:41.240 We find that really exciting when they come back with ideas that then help us to move 37 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:42.960 program forward of getting used to this collaborative technology. 38 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:46.061 As far as the 21st Century learning stuff you know one of the programs that we have 39 00:02:46.061 --> 00:02:47.061 because in the park, in addition to the museums there is also the Balboa Naval Hospital. 40 00:02:47.061 --> 00:02:51.490 Of course we have a lot of our veterans that are coming back from it, it’s a center for 41 00:02:51.490 --> 00:03:01.720 working on different kinds of injuries, major injuries to soldiers and so we have got this 42 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:12.060 big partner with the Warrior Foundation actually, it gives some of those people who are in six 43 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:20.841 months to a year with therapy. 44 00:03:20.841 --> 00:03:21.841 A lot of times they are doing physical therapy for a couple hours a day, for the rest of 45 00:03:21.841 --> 00:03:22.841 the day they don’t really have a thing to do. 46 00:03:22.841 --> 00:03:27.110 A job and they have to from new veterans. 47 00:03:27.110 --> 00:03:29.770 So we bring highly motivated individuals from that organizational program, do intensive 48 00:03:29.770 --> 00:03:32.890 training on technology as it’s done within the cultural organizations, and then we put 49 00:03:32.890 --> 00:03:36.220 them on projects, so they actually get real time experience working on projects with museums. 50 00:03:36.220 --> 00:03:39.560 We have had one recently redeployed all of the bigger kiosks in the sports museum. 51 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:43.120 All of these button driven video kiosks from that one developed about 10 years and all 52 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:44.500 the infrastructure is slowly failing. 53 00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:51.200 So we put it all on Southern State Appliances Services and trying to get the word about 54 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:57.960 you know how do you move from these old types of devices, DVDs, just ripping them off, putting 55 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:08.400 it on you know a southern state chip-based device, editing the video in a lot of cases 56 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.920 because the logos that were used back then are not even the logos that the institution 57 00:04:11.920 --> 00:04:13.900 uses any more, so we actually do video editing. 58 00:04:13.900 --> 00:04:18.520 To provide that training and put them to work, and you know not only are you kind of engaging 59 00:04:18.520 --> 00:04:22.560 them to technology, but you are also engaging them in a different way and different societies, 60 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.600 so they are actually you know more engaged with the fact that this museum, they might 61 00:04:26.600 --> 00:04:30.900 want to go to a museum when they were before they actually came in to the program. 62 00:04:30.900 --> 00:04:35.350 And we find that a lot of the skills that we, that we provided to them are not just 63 00:04:35.350 --> 00:04:39.540 technology skills but kind of life skills, you know how do I put in a resume together 64 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:44.190 for a job like the one I have you know that we are doing as an intern. 65 00:04:44.190 --> 00:04:48.470 You know how do I interact with people in an office situation versus situations in a 66 00:04:48.470 --> 00:04:51.940 fire team you know there is a lot of big differences about that. 67 00:04:51.940 --> 00:04:56.750 And so we are really excited about that because it is relatively new and we have about four 68 00:04:56.750 --> 00:05:12.560 interns and probably will scale up about seven, and the funding that we got from fund that 69 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:20.350 focuses on getting a project manager that actually has one of the social management 70 00:05:20.350 --> 00:05:21.350 skills. 71 00:05:21.350 --> 00:05:22.350 So I’m actually figuring out how to get these guys and girls over it, does have a 72 00:05:22.350 --> 00:05:23.350 lot of issues that they are worried about you know as a veteran and then applying that 73 00:05:23.350 --> 00:05:24.350 skill set to the technology. 74 00:05:24.350 --> 00:05:25.350 Tell us if you would your website so folks can look at some of the specific things that 75 00:05:25.350 --> 00:05:26.350 you are doing. 76 00:05:26.350 --> 00:05:27.350 Right, bpoc.org. 77 00:05:27.350 --> 00:05:28.350 Terrific, thank you very much. 78 00:05:28.350 --> 00:05:28.352 Thank you. �