Creative Learning Factory

a CILC Content Provider

The Creative Learning Factory facilitates exceptional distance learning and professional development programming across a wide variety of subjects. Through customized hands-on, minds-on experiences, engaging workshops, webinars, distance learning programs, participants learn in a fun, highly interactive way, while professional participants leave ready to train, improve, enlighten and inspire within their own organizations.

- Engaging Professional Development
- Ideal for Teachers and Museum Educators
- Hand-on/Minds-on Experiences
- Inquiry-based Learning

2014-2015

Honorable Mention

2013-2014

Programs by Creative Learning Factory

Birth of Nationalism

Dr. Erik Jensen, Department of History at Miami University (Ohio), will discuss the emergence of nationalism in the European region with emphasis on the role of nationalism in revolution and world conflicts after the 1700s. The webinar will also...

Museum Educator Series: Can We All Be More Creative?

Within museums are countless numbers of objects that demonstrate our creative potential. From artistic masterpieces to mended pots, they show our potential to think in new ways, to solve problems, and to connect with the wider world. In this...

Museum Educator Series: Can you Trust Teens with History

Teens can be a tricky audience for a history museum. How can you involve them in your institution? Our presenter will share lessons learned, challenges, and tips for you to better integrate the teen voice into your institution, focusing on the...

Museum Educator Series: Common Core for Museum Professionals

This webinar with give an overview of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in ELA and Math including how they were developed and how they fit into the greater discussion of standards-based education. The presentation will examine how each set of...

Museum Educator Series: Connecting to Educators

Museum education has become more than just field trips. In order to meet mission AND the needs of teachers and students, museums must build relationships with this core audience. But how? Learn strategies for reaching out and engaging educators...

Museum Educator Series: Defining and Designing Particapatory Experiences

Community engagement. Audience participation. What do these ideas look like in practice, and how we can we strengthen this work? Join Nina Simon for an interactive discussion about techniques to enhance visitor participation and how this work...

Museum Educator Series: Early Childhood Programming in the Museum

Join the Creative Learning Factory and special guest Betsy Bowers, Director of the Center for Innovation in Early Learning at the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC), for Early Childhood Programming in the Museum. Gain valuable insight into...

Museum Educator Series: How Inquiry-Based and 21st Cent. Learning Styles Are Affecting Mus. Programs

This presentation will focus on how museums are developing school programming around 21st century skill techniques such as problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration. We will focus on approaches various art and history museums have...

Museum Educator Series: If History Matters, Do Something About It

In "If History Matters, Do Something About It," Kim Fortney, Deputy Director of National History Day, will facilitate a discussion surrounding the History Relevance Campaign. Learn what the History Relevance Campaign is, why it’s important, and...

Museum Educator Series: In Touch with Art and Culture with Trish Maunder

This Webinar Presentation will feature a short Power Point presentation and video (filmed and distributed internationally by the Associated Press) featuring the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology’s popular Touch...

Museum Educator Series: Inclusivity in the Museum

This session offers an overview of accessibility and inclusive design with several exemplary case studies. Sina Bahram, leading accessibility consultant in the field and recognized expert on inclusive design, will introduce best practices and...

Museum Educator Series: Incorporating Historic Interpretation

Join us as Mike Follin, Coordinator of Interpretive Services at the Ohio Historical Society, provides an in-depth overview of interpretive styles in both the first and third person. Mr. Follin will discuss the role and impact of the interpreter as...

Museum Educator Series: Keepers of the Story

Interpreting the African American Legacy is a wonderful opportunity to keep alive stories and experiences that are important cornerstones of American History. This webinar will cover the basics of creating a first-person character, particularly...

Museum Educator Series: Learning Theory and Museum Education Practice

This presentation will provide a brief history of learning theories and demonstrate how those theories play out in classroom and museum settings. A learning theory is composed of two parts- a theory of knowledge and a theory of learning. This...

Museum Educator Series: LGBT Programming in the Public History Field

As museums continue to expand the topics they explore with their visitors, the discussion of LGBT history has begun to appear in mainstream venues. This presentation considers some common challenges to incorporating queer history, along with...

Museum Educator Series: Make It @ Your Museum - Making the Most Out of MakerSpaces

Looking for new ways to bring creativity, innovation, experimentation and learning into your museum? Open a MakerSpace! In a MakerSpace, patrons make their own meaning with hands-on, minds-on active learning. Join Brandi Young, INFOhio...

Museum Educator Series: Making Your Museum Teacher Ready

Museums offer unique educational opportunities that are engaging, creative, and innovative. But what does that mean for teachers? In this webinar, participants will discuss museum education and outreach from a teacher’s perspective, explore...

Museum Educator Series: Programming for Visitors on the Autism Spectrum

The Creative Learning Factory's Museum Educator Series is designed to provide engaging content for museum professionals working with schools.

Museum Educator Series: Programming for Visitors on the Autism Spectrum, Part 2

Join The Creative Learning Factory and guest Aaron Feinstein, Director of Actionplay and The Miracle Project New York, for a follow-up on last season’s Museum Educator Webinar Programming for Visitors on the Autism Spectrum. Join Aaron as he digs...

Museum Educator Series: Reaching Out without Reaching Over: Engaging Underserved Audiences

It can be very easy to overlook the many people who don’t come through our doors or engage in our programming, but we must make efforts to reach those audiences who are underserved. There are many strategies to cultivate relationships beyond the...

Museum Educator Series: Reimagining Your Education Department with Megan Wood

Is it time to freshen up your education experiences? The webinar will highlight setting your vision and creating learning statements, organizing (or reorganizing staff), and measuring your progress. We will be providing organizational charts...

Museum Educator Series: STEAM: A Museum Educator's Perspective

Join us as Rachel Trinkley, Assistant Director of Education for Schools, Teachers, and Docents at the Columbus Museum of Art will present on STEAM, its benefits and challenges. Creative Learning Engineer Molly Uline-Olmstead will join her to...

Museum Educator Series: Strategize Me - Making a Personal Career Plan

We may participate in strategic planning to help chart our organization’s future, but how often in our careers do we stop and examine where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going? No matter if you’re just starting out or you’ve been...

Museum Educator Series: The Visitor Experience: Customer Service Meets Programming

Many factors contribute to the satisfaction of your museum visitors’ experience, from amenities to programmatic offerings. This webinar will examine how to take a holistic look at the visitor experience through communication, training, awareness,...

Museum Educator Series: The Zoo-Museum Crossover

Jim Wharton, Director of Conservation and Education at the Seattle Aquarium, will facilitate a discussion about what museums can learn from zoos and aquariums and vice versa. Zoos and aquariums are often referred to as living museums, or museums...

Museum Educator Series: Using Traveling Trunks for Educational Programming

In this webinar participants will learn about how to develop their own traveling trunk program or how to improve one that is already in place. Participants will also learn how to connect their traveling trunk program to other programs to create...

Museum Educator Series: Who’s in Charge? Experimenting with Shared Authority in K-12 Teacher Program

What does “shared authority,” “co-expertise,” and “peer-to-peer learning” actually look like? This webinar will feature an introduction to these concepts by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, guest editor of the July 2013 Journal of Museum Education issue,...

Type of Organization

Arts/Cultural/Museum

Contact

Sohayla Pagano and Becki Trivison info@creativelearningfactory.org
800 E. 17th Ave
Columbus OH 43211
6142972527
United States

http://www.creativelearningfactory.org

Primary Disciplines

The programs of Creative Learning Factory cover:

Curriculum
Fine Arts
Language Arts/English
Professional Learning Community
History & Social Studies
Standards
Museum Education