Linguistics Learning Carts
I created a series of educator-facilitated demo carts for the Ohio State University Linguistics Department's Labs in Life at COSI. Each demo was developed through an iterative development process that involved cycles of prototyping and revision. OSU student educators in the Language Lab now use the demos as part of their programming for COSI visitors. In the first demo, visitors learn about syllabary writing systems by translating a Mayan word. To accompany the opening of a new major dinosaur exhibition at COSI, I created three demos on dinosaur-related speech and language science that explore reconstructing dinosaur hearing abilities, non-linguistic animal communication, and reconstructing dinosaur vocalizations.