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Hey, let's get started.

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So good afternoon, everyone.

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My name is Helen Wechsler, and I
work at the Office of Museum

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Services at the Institute of
Museum and Library Services.

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We're delighted that you could
join us for this webinar about

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one of our national initiatives,
Museums for Digital Learning.

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So, our speakers today are
Brooke Gyermek, who is the

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Digital Learning Manager and MDL
Project Manager at History

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Colorado, and me.

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That's all you've got!

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And I'm just going to start us
off by providing a brief

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introduction and then I'm going
to turn it over to Brooke to

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talk about the function and use
of the platform and hopefully

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entice you to dip your toe in.

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So we conceived of Museums for
Digital Learning back in 2018.

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IMLS had been funding
digitization projects as well as

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online educational resources for
individual museums for a long

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time.

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I can't even begin to guess the
number of objects digitized with

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IMLS funding.

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I just know it's enormous.

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And the volume of important
object-based classroom materials

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being made available to teachers
by the nation's museums was also

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considerable.

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We also knew that for most
museums, their K-12 educator

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audience is relatively local.

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We then wondered what it would
be like if any teacher anywhere

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across the content could access
content from any museum across

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the country.

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We got a few committed museums
and a cohort of K-12 educators

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together to co-create the
templates and functionality that

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would characterize MDL,
guaranteeing that we would meet

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the needs of teachers and
students.

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The product of that work is what
you're about to see, a platform

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with educational resource kits
contributed by museums across

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the US for teachers and students
who can search by subject, grade

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level, and education standards.

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Brooke, I'm going to turn it
over to you to talk more about

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the platform and the
opportunities for museums to

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become MDL contributors.

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Museums for Digital Learning,
which I will refer to as MDL

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throughout the rest of the
presentation, is a platform made

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for museums who have existing
digitized collection items

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ranging from artworks to primary
historical resources, biological

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or geological specimens, and
other unique objects from your

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museum's collection.

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The audience is K-12 students,
so having existing education

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materials or the potential to
create educational materials,

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based on field trips or
exhibits, is ideal.

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While you do not need to have
educators at your organization,

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you will need staff, and we do
recommend at least two staff

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members who are able to commit
to collections uploading and

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content creation.

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It is also essential that there
is institutional buy-in for this

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effort as well as support from
your institution.

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Once you sign up, museums are
expected to create a Resource

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Kit which we will talk more
about throughout this webinar.

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Who is already participating?

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Viewers are able to see a list
of all of our existing museums.

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Museums who have signed up, but
not yet published content,

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appear at the bottom of the
page.

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We have a total of 93 museums at
this time, including two

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international museums.

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Nearly all museum types are
represented, from house museums

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to art museums, history museums,
botanical gardens, and more.

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The primary audience for MDL is
students across K-12 classrooms.

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Educators would be the initial
viewers examining each Resource

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Kit for national educational
standards that align with their

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curriculum, content that is
appropriate for their students,

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and activities for students to
engage with.

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Links for Resource Kits can then
be shared directly with student

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users via a link or through
Google Classroom.

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The steps for joining MDL can be
done online using the links

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provided.

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First, you can visit
museumsfordigitallearning.org

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and fill out a form to become a
participating organization.

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Then you can sign up for an
information session, where you

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will get additional information
about the back end of the

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platform.

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There are additional resources
available that can be explored

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once you create an account.

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Some of the resources available
on the platform include a

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Resource Kit Planning Guide,
which gives guidance on 6 tasks

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that will support your team in
creating high quality resource

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kits that will engage students.

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There is a planning guide
template that you can fill-in as

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you work through the six tasks.

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Videos and additional resources
help you to identify the

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difference between media (which
is uploaded content) and objects

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(uploaded content with metadata
from your collection records).

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A template is provided for
creating an Educator Overview

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which allows you to quickly
share the highlights of your

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Resource Kit with educators who
are looking for resources for

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their classroom.

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A publishing checklist allows
you to ensure that the Resource

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Kit is ready to be published if
you are in need of additional

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support.

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We also offer monthly
information sessions, which are

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about 30 to 45 minutes long, and
are open for new and existing

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content contributors.

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We are also currently hosting
seasonal Content Creation

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Cohorts, which include six
virtual meetings with guided

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support.

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A Content Creation Cohort is a
series of virtual meetings with

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new museum content contributors
hosted by the MDL team.

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These 6 virtual meetings across
11 weeks are intended to give

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additional support for following
the six tasks for creating

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resource kits.

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Two staff members from your
organization must participate

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and you receive a $1,500
stipend.

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This allows your team to develop
the skills needed to create

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Resource Kits independently in
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Once you join MDL, you are able
to sign up to join the upcoming

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cohorts and there is a limit to
10 museums per cohort.

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The first 3 tasks of the Content
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planning.

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The exhibit exercise allows your
team to explore all the

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resources already available for
your topic, identify which

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educational subjects are covered
and who your audience will be,

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and finally, choose national
standards and write guiding

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questions that will be used as
the foundation for your Resource

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Kit.

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The last three tasks in the
Content Creation Cohort focus on

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the creation of your Resource
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content and student engagement
activities, uploading media and

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objects, and considering other
components like audience before

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publishing your work.

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To get a better understanding of
what a Resource Kit includes, we

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are going to examine a Resource
Kit created by the History

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Colorado team.

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First, we would anticipate that
educators use the Contents tab

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and home screen for the Resource
Kit to examine what the whole

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Resource Kit includes.

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Each type of activity is
indicated with an image and the

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title gives additional
information at the bottom of the

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Contents.

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Educators can see additional
resources under Educator

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Materials as well as the
Resource Kit Standards.

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Each resource Kit must have an
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This templated document allows
museums to quickly share the key

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components of the Resource Kit,
like guiding questions and an

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overview of the activities,
which helps educators quickly

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determine if the resource is
right for their classroom.

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Back on the homepage of the
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written for the student
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8th graders.

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Students explore each activity,
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or by using the arrows within
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As students work through the
Resource Kit, the related

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guiding question appears at the
top of the screen.

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Museums use these questions to
create structure in the Resource

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Kits, and an example of this can
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In this annotation activity,
students are asked to think a

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little more deeply about miner
adaptations to overcome the

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challenges of Colorado's
geography.

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The students have been presented
with all of the information

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needed to understand how miners
adapted and are now asked to

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think about which adaptation
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important.

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This annotation activity also
allows students to download

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their work to turn into their
teachers.

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As you can see, the students
then move into learning

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connected with a new guiding
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The banner above helps students
to see this and allows educators

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to plan accordingly.

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They may ground the activities
across multiple days, ask for

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student check in between guiding
questions, or bring students

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together to reflect on guiding
questions before moving forward.

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It is also helpful to include
background knowledge activities,

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reflection opportunities, and
wrap up questions.

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This "Know, Want to Know, Learn"
activity, which is commonly used

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by educators, allows students to
activate prior knowledge before

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starting the Resource Kit.

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The apples to oranges game here
gives students an opportunity to

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sort the images to think about
the positive and negative

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aspects of the topic, and
finally, students are able to

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return to their no want to know
learned activity in the final

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activity of the Resource Kit.

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Utilizing these educational
strategies and resources is

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something that our team at
Museums for Digital Learning is

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able to support you with
throughout the Content Creation

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Cohorts.

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If you are unable to
participate, there are also a

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variety of resources and guiding
templates on the back end of the

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MDL platform.

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There are significant benefits
for both museums and K-12 users.

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Your reach will increase as
schools across the nation will

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be able to access your
resources.

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You will be increasing the
accessibility of your digital

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collections as well as creating
valuable educational content.

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And it's all free.

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Students and educators get
access to unique museum

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collections that support
national standards.

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They are able to engage in a
variety of resources digitally,

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and our hope is that by
recruiting a wide range of

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museums, we will be able to
bring more underrepresented

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stories to the classroom,
closing a resource gap that

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teachers struggle with.

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Here are some quotes from museum
professionals who have been

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using the MDL platform.

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And here are some quotes from
some educators who have been

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using the MDL platform.

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Good luck.

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I hope we see lots of cool
resource kits coming from all of

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you. And take care, thanks for
joining.

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Thank you.