This chapter is chapter 8 and it is about high-tech gadgetry. “High technology can reveal the world in exciting new ways. However, incorporating this technology into the interpretive program must be done with foresight and care.” Enos Mills and Freeman Tilden imagined the possibilities associated with using current technologies in interpretations. Through high-tech gadgetry, local nature centers and the smallest of museums have expanded their sphere of influence both on-site and to the world beyond. Computer …showed first 75 words of 497 total…

…showed last 75 words of 497 total…take advantage of CD-Rom technology and use them to get a message into peoples’ homes and schools. Distance Education Systems, interpreters can expand their sphere of influence nationally and even globally. They use satellites to broadcast live interpretive programs to audiences at other locations. Geographic Information Systems, Aerial photographs and satellite data imagery allows people to see their world from an entirely new prospective-from above. Most birds-eye views of familiar areas fascinate people. Thank You.