{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Why Distance Learning?","title":"#92 Training Students to Teach Live Virtual Museum Programs with Central Michigan's Rebecca Petrone & Kayli Adams","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2441,"description":"In this episode of Why Distance Learning, Seth and Allyson speak with Rebecca Petrone, the educator/technologist at Central Michigan University's Museum of Cultural and Natural History, and Kayli Adams, a graduate assistant at the museum. They talk about how a museum with a full-time staff of three trains undergraduates to design and deliver live virtual programs for real classrooms, and what students and audiences get out of letting novices present.\nTogether, Seth, Allyson, Rebecca, and Kayli explore how the museum moved its distance learning from a green screen and webcam to a campus lightboard studio, how Rebecca builds programs around the objects in the collection, and how she uses the chat, open-ended questions, and a co-designed Valentine to make up for what students can't touch through a screen. Rebecca describes her shadow-then-present training model and her plan for a free virtual series that audiences book knowing the presenter is a student. Kayli talks about leading her first program before she felt ready and about the coloring pages she now keeps on hand for shy kids. The episode closes with Kayli, who was homeschooled, remembering what a thirty-minute virtual session meant to a kid who couldn't go on field trips, and Rebecca on how a single comment in the chat can make an older learner feel like they made a friend.\nKey topics\nTraining undergraduates to deliver live virtual museum programs\nShadow, practice, present: a scaffolded model for new presenters\nObject-based learning when the audience can't touch the objects\nUsing chat, open-ended questions, and gamification to drive engagement\nStudent-built exhibits and programs, including the international New Year Traditions program\nBuilding leadership and confidence through real stakes\nDistance learning as connection for rural, homeschooled, and lifelong learners\nLinks & Resources\nCMU Museum of Cultural & Natural History — programs on CILC...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2eKPm8ob1eS5Ju0DBuhPXRKuQv7Vx4cWT0c4uWSYbCQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MmFh/MmQyYTc4NzdkNGJh/MzIzZWU5MmI3MzRk/MjQwYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}