Korea National Parks - EE Center Planning

National Parks of South Korea/Daegu University - Environmental Education Center Concept Development/ Interpretive Plan - Pilot Project.  JVA working on the team with Dr. Ju-Hee Lee, Deagu University, was contracted by the Korea National Park Service to develop the initial interpretive concept for development of a National Parks Environmental Education Center.  This is a pilot project that will eventually be used as a model to develop EE Centers in other Korea National Parks.  This project includes: site selection for the first National Park EE Center; development of the EE building concept footprint and building program; concepts for outdoor EE facilities including demonstration and activity areas; EE Discovery Trails; EE Center program topics and content recommendations; and EE market development.  The pilot concept design/interpretive plan will be completed in December, 2012

Korea Update

Here is a quick update on our Korea work.  We have finished the draft of the first course workbook (photo) and the working draft of our new Korea Interpretation Text Book, in association with Dr. Ju-Hee Lee of Deagu University.  We hope to have the translations, etc. for that book completed by the end of the year.  We also finished the first course lesson plans (being translated) as well.  Dr. Lee is hosting a meeting of key university/agency interpreters in October (China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan) to talk about the evolution of interpretation and interpretive training.  I'll keep you posted.  JV

Korea, Falmouth and more.

The Korea National Arboretum.

Just back from a week in Korea working on our 5-year interpretive training program.  We finished the draft of our Interpretive Services Text Book - to be published in Korean, as well as the lesson plans and course manual for the first training course - Foundations of Interpretation.

New Project ; Historic Falmouth (Stafford County, Virginia) Interpretive Master Plan. JVA in partnership with Lynn Knight of Management Analysis, Inc. (Virginia) were award the contract to develop the Interpretive Master Plan and Heritage Tourism Analysis/Potential for the historic community of Falmouth, Virginia. Many of Falmouth's early buildings remain standing, including the Cotton Warehouse; Duff Green Warehouse; Cambridge Inn, Temperance Tavern; Barnes House; Magistrate's Office; Counting House; Basil Gordon House; Moncure Conway House (boyhood home of the South's most prominent abolitionist); and Shelton Cottage. For more information about the history of Falmouth (and Stafford County) click on this link: http://www.staffordcountyhistoricalsociety.org/places.html#  The project will start in mid September.

John Veverka's text book Interpretive Master Planning to be reprinted in Italian. Dr. Marta Brunelli of the Universita degli Studi de Macerata, will be undertaking the translation of the text book into Italian in January 2013 with a publication date before the summer of 2014.   IMP was published a few years ago in Chinese as well.

Check out my new InterpNEWS international interpretation newsletter.  E-mail me your e-mail address and I will send you the Sep/Oct issue.

That's the updates for new. 
JV

The International Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and Landscape Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Thailand.

I am honored to have been asked to be a peer reviewer for article submissions related to Heritage Interpretation and Eco Tourism by the journal.  This is cool as it will help me keep up to date on what interpreters in these market areas are working on and studying.  I am currently reviewing an article on Interpretive Planning related to Eco Tourism.  Looks really interesting.  If/when it is published I will make a PDF of the article available (with the authors permission) to my InterpNEWS readers.  Cheers, JV

Wow, August Already.  Here's some new JVA news.  Newcastle Universitys Centre for Culture and Heritage Studies in the UK is developing a new suite of Postgraduate e-learning programs in Heritage Management and Tourism.  The program includes 6 modules with each module having 8 units in it.  For the Communication and Interpretation Module, I have been asked to create the Units for "Communication and Interpretation Planning an Programming" and the unit on "Guiding and providing information for visitors".  I have begun working on these Units and hope to have them completed in October.  Each Unit will require about 15 hours of student engagement time.   I'll provide more inforamtion on the total heritage studies program as this is further developed. - jv

InterpNEWS

Hi folks,
Just a quick July Update.  Hope the summer isn't too hot, and you've had some rain.  Lots of things going on, including moving to a new house and office.  I wanted to do a quick note about our new interpretation newsletter "InterpNEWS", that has interpretation articles, information about new books, training courses, etc.  The July/August issue is currently available.  This issue has the "Ten Things To Consider When Hiring A Interpretive Consultant" article.  If you would like to be added to the e-mailing list for the newsletter send me an e-mail and I will send you the current issue and add you to the list.  More happening on the horizon.  Cheers, JV  jvainterp@aol.com

I just completed the Interpretive Master Planning Course at Snowdonia National Park Training Center in Wales, UK.  Our group photo, and a pic from our tour at the National Slate Mine Museum are shown.  There are more photos from the course at:  http://pinterest.com/jvainterp/.   Lots going on, including working on our Old Baldy Lighthouse Interpretive Plan, and working on our new "Interpretive Writing" book.  Check out my web site for current projects, etc.  http://www.heritageinterp.com/ .   Cheers, JV