BLUE is a proud co-founder and co-organizer of this event, hosted by the SPNHC Education Committee.
Natural History Education DemoCamp
June 14-15, 2023 Blog Report
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) Education Committee hosted the third virtual Natural History Education (NHE) DemoCamp on June 14-15, 2023. The goal of the NHE DemoCamp is to share, discover, and discuss educational materials that have a framework in natural history. This is building upon our previous iterations of the 'education share fair' that were hosted at the SPNHC annual meetings 2018-2019.
This year’s NHE DemoCamp had over 150 registrants with 14 different live demonstrations and discussions that took place over the two days. Educational materials shared varied widely in scope, audience, format, and topic from how to engage audiences with virtual natural history collections resources to how to build engaging in-person public programming. You can find short descriptions and links to each educational resource on the event’s abstract page. You can also find recordings for all of the demo sessions on the democamp website.
2023 Natural History Education DemoCamp Partners.
We are encouraging all of our presenters to share their resources as Open Education Resources (OER) on the SPNHC Natural History Education Portal. As a reminder, this portal is also open to anyone! Anyone can add their education or outreach materials to this community space. It only takes a short amount of time to create an OER and it will increase your resource visibility! If you would like help getting started please reach out to Molly.
A huge thank you to all of the organizers from the SPNHC Education Committee and to all of our partners that helped us spread the word! Stay tuned for announcements for next year’s NHE DemoCamp! We are also always looking for new partnerships and members. Please fill out our interest form for more information, or reach out to us through email!