Hmong Museum Website Exhibit with Educational Curriculum
Hmong Museum will develop and streamline its online educational offerings through a series of online web exhibitions, collections, and enhanced curriculum.
2022-2023 Cultural Heritage and Community Identity Grants - Spring 2022
Goal: Create a more accessible online resource for community members.
Outcome: Teachers, parents, and students will download lessons and have more engagement with Hmong Museum's archives. We will know this has happened when we see how many downloads are completed each month.
We will also be recording communication touchpoints, how many and how often community members are reaching out to us about our content.
The website will gain up to 15 new article entries related to Hmong history and the curricula being created.
Goal: Develop an online exhibition that will engage and teach Hmong history and culture.
Outcome: Students will learn new facts about Hmong history and culture by engaging in the website. We will have a group of students and teachers do pre and post- evaluation, testing the web content. Students will describe how much they know about a certain topic before reading through and interacting with Hmong Museum's website. In the post evaluation, we will ask how much they feel that they have learned or gained after working through the website. We will also ask about the site's engagement level - is this something that held students' attention and did they find it interesting, fun, or engaging. We will ask if they would come back and use the website in the future.
The website project is going according to plans to be completed by mid September. We hired the contractors that we needed including a project manager, artists, curriculum writers, and researchers. We completed two focus groups with community members and sent out surveys to educators to inform our work. The team has completed a skeleton web page, written six articles that are in the editing phase. Logos for the webpage were created and the artist is starting to do work on drawings connected with the research articles. Our goal is to have all of the content and curriculum completed by August 8.
The goals and outcomes have not changed.; Hmong Museum and the website team worked hard through the summer to research, write, and develop an educational website focused on getting resources for teachers about the Hmong. We were able to achieve that goal with the completion of the learnuake.org website. Our goal was to complete 15 articles along with 10 curriculum that would follow those articles. All of these were accomplished. Another goal was to work with a Hmong artist to create drawings that would engage and help illustrate the articles. That was a huge success and truly creates an engaging feel for the website. The last part of this was the development of the website. The the web developer and project manager designed and created the website. It is easy to use and very engaging for the target audience - which are teachers and students 6 grade and up.
The changes from the original budget was that we lessoned the marketing and outreach and added Hmong Museum's contractor to the budget to manage the project. We did not have as many face-time meetings as expected since it was easier for community members to join us virtually.
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