Sessions of special interest to AAMV members at AAM, Boston 2006 

Thurs. April 27		2:15-3:30 pm		New faces, New Ideas: Creating and Maintaining a Museum Internship Program
Chair				Debbie Young, AAMV Board member, Director of Volunteer Services, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis,   Indianapolis, IN
Presenter				Nina Jensen, Director Museum Education, Bank Street College Museum Education, New York, NY
Fri. April 28		2:15 - 3:30 pm		Nurturing and Inspiring Experienced Docents
Chair				Carol Tang, Chair Educational Programs, CA Academy of Sciences
Presenters				Rachael Bertone, Docent California Academy of Sciences (Vice President NDSC) Patterson Williams, Master Teacher for Asian and textile art, Denver Art Museum Ann Thomas, Docent, Denver Art Museum (NDSC board member)
				Session sponsored by AAMV and by the National Docent Symposium Council (NDSC)
Fri. April 28		3:45 - 5:00 pm		Broaden Your Volunteer Corps
Chair				Maretta Hemsley-Wood, AAMV Regional Director, Docent Program Manager, National Air & Space Museum Smithsonian Institution , Washington, DC
Presenters				Linda Apple, Director, Volunteer and Community Programs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and AAMV Regional Director Lucy Darragh, Program Manager, Volunteer Services, Museum of Science, Boston Joanna Rothman, Manager of Volunteer Programs and Internships, New England Aquarium
				Session endorsed by AAMV, AAM Committee for Diversity in Museums, AAM Development and Membership Committee
Sun. April 30		3:45 - 5:00 pm		Distance and No Distance -- Building an E-Docent Community
Chair				Herminia Din, Assistant Professor of Art Education, University of Alaska, Anchorage , Anchorage, AK
Presenters				Rika Burnham, Associate Museum Educator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Gin Wachter, President, National Docent Symposium Council, AAMV Program Director, and Docent at Saint Louis Art Museum Soren Kaplan, CEO, ICohere, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA
				Session endorsed by AAM Media and Technology Committee, National Docent Symposium Council, AAMV, and AAM Committee on Education

                                                                                                                                                                 updated February 21, 2006
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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