VISION
What Is YOUR Best Idea?
Protea, Photo by Amy Seidman ©
On behalf of the National Park Service, tell us your ideas for sharing National Park experiences. Register to submit your media and tech solution by posting it here on www.TechThinkTank.org.
Tech Think Tank is a blog created to offer media providers, tech companies, and individuals a voice in the NPS Renaissance of Interpretation as part of Incredible Places Made For the Media ™ Suite of Interpretation Tools.
Purpose
Dedicated to uncovering the strongest, most viable, and effective technology tools for use in NPS interpretation. Appropriate media and technology applications and providers shall be invited to be a part of Incredible Places Made For the Media suite of interpretation tools.
Currently the National Park Service has formed internal committees to evaluate existing technology, media and how they may be used in the parks in future. As part of this endeavor, Incredible Places has provided this platform to invite technology specialists, media producers, and interpretation enthusiast to tell us about your solutions and share ideas. We want to know what new cool stuff is out there, what you believe would benefit the National Parks, and your ideas for how we can educate people about our natural resources.
The National Park Service current agenda is called the Renaissance of Interpretation and consist five pillars. Two of them are using “emerging technologies” and working with “partnerships”.
We invite you to submit your ideas, technology solutions, services, applications, media, and anything related you feel would make a great contribution to the National Park System interpretative process through exhibits, films, seld guided tours, and all the educational material you see when you visit a park. This also includes solutions for handicapped and elderly who are not able move around like the general public.
Interactive multimedia offers a retention rate of 35% which leads to obvious benefits exist for uses in exhibits and for handicapped people. The application and possibilities are boundless and is in the interest of educating people about National Park Service and similar organizations in need of these applications.
Join us today to help generations tomorrow!
