Tess Porter

Tess Porter is the Digital Content Producer at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, where she focuses on the use of digital museum resources to deepen learning. Her work on the Smithsonian Learning Lab, an online platform for the creative and educational use of millions of museum resources, involves the research and creation of interactive learning experiences on history, art, and culture for projects both within the Smithsonian and in collaboration with other institutions, and the training of educators and others on how to create their own customized content on the Lab.

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The Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Inspiring Civic Engagement (edX)

Discover how museum objects can help learners explore the challenges and opportunities of living in a democracy and inspire civic action. How can educators of all disciplines prepare students to be active and informed participants in a democracy? Join us to explore this question through the lens of six [...]

Interdisciplinary Teaching with Museum Objects (edX)

Educators from four Smithsonian museums will explore connections among their collections and model teaching strategies that participants can implement with their students, whether online or in the classroom. Teachers, don't miss this special opportunity to learn with four Smithsonian museums from [...]