Learn about exciting new developments at Night Kitchen Interactive.
The History of Vaccines has been selected as an Official Honoree in the Science category for the 15th Annual Webby Awards!
Of the nearly 10,000 entries submitted worldwide, fewer than 10% were distinguished as an Official Honoree. We are proud to share this recognition with The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Night Kitchen Interactive is thrilled to receive an Honorable Mention for our History of Vaccines website in the education category at this year’s Best of the Web awards. Presented by the Museums and the Web community, the awards recognize outstanding achievements in website design and mobile applications for museums and cultural institutions. Projects are judged on criteria including content, functionality, visual design, interactivity, and technical approach, as well as their ability to provide engaging and relevant educational resources to specific audiences. Learn more about the History of Vaccines website, developed for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in our case study here.
Night Kitchen Interactive is proud to be partnering with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges, an instructional website for classroom learning (project launch June 2011). Documenting four American Indian communities, the website highlights first person narration of the environmental issues facing these tribes and their responses to those challenges.
The site presents a media-rich, scaffolded learning environment with progress tracking and assessment features. Students watch videos, explore interactive activities, and answer questions along the way to gain deeper insights to the integral role the environment plays in the daily lives of American Indian communities and draw connections to local environmental issues. The culminating classroom presentation activity allows students to collect notes taken across the site into one central web-based planner.
Following an extensive discovery phase with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Night Kitchen Interactive is creating a new website centered on clearly presenting the Institution’s three distinct but related services, and providing multiple opportunities to showcase SIA’s expertise through dedicated areas for exhibits and educational materials.
Our solution involves integrating the Drupal CMS with SI’s centralized data asset network (proprietary centralized collections management system and media delivery service). Ultimately, the new website will establish a cohesive online presence for the SIA and present its wide range of online resources in a manner that is intuitive and easily accessible to audiences seeking assistance with preservation services, as well as in answering questions about institutional history.
Night Kitchen Interactive is collaborating with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to create an interactive web presence for their How Things Fly exhibition. The exhibit, created with middle school students in mind, introduces visitors to the key principles of flight through fun, hands-on activities.
Building on the physical exhibit’s interactive nature, the online presence for How Things Fly will allow visitors to try their hand at a variety of interactive web-based activities, such as designing their own paper airplane and launching it into social media cyberspace.
Following the Phase 1 launch of its newly designed website, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) has opened up Monticello.org to visitors, inviting them to comment on, tag, and favorite content across the website. In keeping with TJF’s goal of “engaging global audiences in a dialogue with Jefferson’s ideas”, the new website now reflects the voices of Monticello’s own staff (ranging from guides and volunteers to researchers) and the broader community of Jefferson enthusiasts. Over 200 fans have already joined the Monticello community since its soft launch in late December. Since online community engagement can’t happen without creating the tools and environment to foster it, we took some important steps to help make this happen. Read more.
Night Kitchen Interactive’s Director of Learning Strategies, Stacey Mann, will be speaking at the 2011 AAM annual meeting in a session that weaves together the disciplines of learning science and exhibition design.
The Art of Storytelling website, created by Night Kitchen Interactive for the Delaware Art Museum, was highlighted in an article on "Twenty-First Century Storytelling" in the December issue of School Arts Magazine.
We are proud to say that the project was featured alongside other innovative storytelling sites designed specifically to engage young audiences in the study of art through the combination of technology and traditional storytelling. Launched in 2008, the Art of Storytelling website continues to receive stories and artworks from online visitors from around the world. Read the full case study.
Since its launch a little over a year ago, the Connect social network for DNA barcoding professionals has gained over 700 members.
In response to audience feedback, Night Kitchen Interactive collaborated with the Consortium for the Barcode of Life once again to further enhance visitor experience.
We have partnered once again with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) to present "PhilaPlace to AnyPlace" – an evaluative review of the PhilaPlace website, focused on exploring the potential ways this community and mapping platform can be shared with other historical and cultural organizations.
