Training materials and videos for giving virtual tours will be posted here for your reference.
Virtual Tour Refresher on 12.14.21:
Virtual Tours at Mia (overview)
Virtual Tour Refresher presentation:
2021 Training_ Refresher of virtual tours, 12.14.21
List of virtual tour guides and docents, updated 3.4.21:
Virtual Touring List 2021 (3.7.21)
Videos of training sessions held this fall 2020:
9/29 and 10/1: Overview of virtual tours at Mia
10/8 and 10/13: Adult and University virtual tours
10/6 and 10/14: School virtual tours
Video: General instructions on how to use Zoom for the first time, from Cozy Grammar:
How to use Zoom for the first time
Video: General instructions on how to host a meeting on Zoom, from Cozy Grammar:
Templates to use when contacting tour requestors:
Suggested template for initial contact for school tour
Suggested template for initial contact for university tour
Suggested template for initial contact for adult private tour
School Tours. Training videos for working with Google Slides:
General introduction to the master Google Slide template for school and AAG tours
How to move slides and images within a presentation
How to insert a contextual photo and credit line
How to save and insert a detail photo of the artwork
Adult/University Tours: Training videos for working with Google Slides:
General introduction to the master Google Slide template for adult tours
How to insert an image from the Mia collection page
How to add Mia credit line information
How to adjust image size and text
How to insert a contextual image and credit line
Additional tour resource videos, new 12.30.20:
Downloading and printing from PPT and PDF
Tour day support in Zoom, adult tour
Tour day support in Zoom, school tour
Sharing tour slides in Google Meet
Tour Support Volunteers (posted 3.25.21):
Hosting Virtual Tours on Google Meet
NEW resources posted on 2.1.21:
The docent study group “Let’s Talk Tours” met to discuss virtual tour experiences (for adult and school tours). Here is a recording of that meeting, where participants shared the slides from their various tours:
Brown Bag for virtual school tours, on 2.1.21:
Notes from Brown Bag:
Brown Bag virtual school tours
Slides from Brown Bag (includes best practices for creating engaging Google Slides):
Brown Bag for Virtual School Tours
Virtual Tour Experiences (this will continue to be updated. Send any new reflections to Kara to post):
Virtual Tour Experiences_ 11.14.20
And here is a summary of some tips shared so far from Ginny Wheeler (11.17.20):
And here is the link to the video of our information session on 11.12.20, where people who have given virtual tours shared their experiences:
Info session on virtual tour experiences
Examples of virtual tours
Sample virtual tour for adults of Living Clay exhibition by Mary Ann Wark: Ikebana Association
Sample tour slides: Virtual tour of Living Clay
Sample book tour from Ginny Wheeler, slides and notes: Island of Sea Women Virtual Book Tour
And notes from the book tour: Island of Sea Women Tour Notes
Sample tour from Terry Edam: 09.17.20_A_DH_Terry E_Catholic League_View
And here are some questions from Terry’s tour: window view questions
To read more about some experiences with virtual touring, check out the September issue of the Docent Muse:
We have some examples of student interaction in classrooms for Creativity Academy:
Zoom example: Creativity Academy
Google Meet example: Creativity Academy
Tour development and research resources
Here is a PDF containing all the images in the Art Adventure sets. All these images have great content within the AAG booklets, accessible within the main menu, Programs/AAG/AAG sets.