TexNET: Texas Network for Exhibit-based Learning and Teaching

沃斯堡科技博物馆将与探索馆和三个较小的科学博物馆合作，这些博物馆与德克萨斯州的农村和讲西班牙语的人口有着密切的联系：探索科学广场，洛雷多儿童博物馆和科学光谱，以开发TexNET，这是一个以展览教学探索馆网络（ExNET）为模型的为期四年的项目。 TexNET借鉴了从过去的展览推广模式中吸取的经验教训，满足了小型农村合作伙伴对展览和能力建设讲习班的需求。 每个小型博物馆合作伙伴将举办为期一年的十件展品。 展览主题是1）运动，2）天气和3）声音。 讲习班侧重于探究学习技术、科学内容、方案编制和讲习班设计，以及每个合作伙伴的机构需求。 Inverness Research Associates将进行项目评估。 他们将通过观察TexNET模式的有效性，单个展览元素在吸引农村社区方面的成功，该项目提高当地农村社区维持自身教育改善的能力的有效性以及培训部分在提高当地博物馆为农村观众服务的能力方面的有效性来审查该项目的成功。

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and Technology will partner with The Exploratorium and with three smaller science museums that have strong connections to rural and Spanish-speaking populations in Texas: Discovery Science Place, Loredo Children's Museum, and Science Spectrum to develop TexNET, a four-year project modeled on the Exploratorium Network for Exhibit-based Teaching (ExNET). TexNET builds on lessons learned from past exhibit outreach models and addresses the needs of small, rural partners for exhibits and capacity-building workshops. Each small museum partner will host a set of ten exhibits for one year. Exhibit topics are 1)motion, 2)weather and 3)sound. Workshops focus on inquiry learning techniques, science content, programming and workshop design, as well as the institutional needs of each partner. Inverness Research Associates will conduct the project evaluation. They will examine the success of this project by looking at the effectiveness of the TexNET model, the success of the individual exhibit elements to engage rural communities, the effectiveness with which this project has enhanced the abilities of local rural communities to sustain their own educational improvements and the effectiveness of the training components in increasing the capabilities of the local museums to serve their rural audiences.