
Nick Gamble recently graduated from the Master of Museum Studies program at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information and joined Archives & Museum Informatics in Toronto as Conference Manager. Given his interests in museums, the web, management, and wikis, Nick has worked on a number of new media and exhibition projects using wikis as a project and content management tool, including most notably Mischief & Malice: Crime in the Museum, a senior thesis project, in which he served as a project manager with Jes Koepfler. In 2007, Nick completed an internship in Marketing and Fund Development at the London Regional Children's Museum in London, Ontario. Prior to commencing his master's degree, Nick studied Religion and Fine Arts History at the University of Prince Edward Island and worked as a project coordinator for several years at Generation XX, a non-profit youth drop-in centre and indoor skateboarding park, in Summerside, Prince Edward Island.

Jes Koepfler recently completed her graduate degree in Museum Studies with a concentration in Knowledge Media Design at the University of Toronto. She has worked on a number of new media projects including a Toronto-based, online oral history project called [Murmur]; a proposal for a hand-held wayfinding device – “Bringing the Virtual Museum into the Museum”; a proposal for a web-based educational interactive, called “Glimpse”; and she also designed a “For Kids” website for the Scottsville Museum in Scottsville, Virginia. She conducted a literature review and presentation of “Using Wikis for Project Management” at the culmination of her 2007 summer internship at the Institute for Learning Innovation in Edgewater, Maryland. She has worked closely with Nick Gamble as a project manager for their senior thesis exhibition project, Mischief & Malice: Crime in the Museum, in which they have used a wiki as the project management tool for communication, content management, and collaboration. She rejoined the Institute for Learning Innovation as a Research Associate in June 2008.

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