Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. There are 12,000 to 14,000 classroom project requests on the site at a time. .

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. MacArthur Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. That lead me to Jennifer Rauch, the co-founder of The Generation Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. Who had input?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.

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