Darren Milligan

Male

Washington, DC

United States

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation
Smithsonian Institution
Website
http://www.SmithsonianEducation.org
About Me
Darren Milligan is the designer and director of digital media projects at the Center for Education and Museum Studies at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, USA. There he produces print and digital learning resources, manages social media initiatives, and directs websites including the two-time People's Voice Webby-Award-winning digital portal for education at the Smithsonian, smithsonianeducation.org. He served as art director and producer of the Institution’s teacher magazine (Smithsonian in Your Classroom) and integrated online interactive IdeaLabs, distributed to every primary and secondary school in the United States (more than 80,000 schools serving 30 million students). In 2008, he also worked on the team that established the Smithsonian as one of the founding institutional members of the Flickr Commons (flickr.com/commons). Prior to the Smithsonian, he developed digital citizen-science projects and online mentoring communities at the nonprofit Purple Martin Conservation Association (www.purplemartin.org). Darren is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the American Association of Museums Media and Technology Committee, and serves on various Smithsonian committees focused on education and web/new media strategies. Darren is also an amateur photographer and manages the blog, www.printedprimate.org, focusing on pre-photographic images of primates in western cultures.

Comment Wall:

Load Previous Comments

  • Jack

    Hi Darren. I was wondering if you have students or educator contacts who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!

    Feb 1, 2009

  • Jack

    Thanks for the idea, Darren!

    Feb 2, 2009

  • Jack

    Hey Darren,

    Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

    That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

    Do you mind posting on Facebook again?

    Thanks,
    Jack

    Apr 24, 2009