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Free Webinar: Using Mobile Technologies for Outreach and Education - July 16

Tech Soup

She will interview Adam Shyevitch, Teen Initiative Director at Boston After School & Beyond , who will share information about how their organization is using mobile technology for their outreach efforts. Tags: E-Learning Online Seminar Telecom Services Training Training. read more.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

And awesome examples like 826 Valencia or the Boston Children's Museum's GoKids program demonstrate that sometimes putting traditional social services like tutoring or food distribution in a cultural context can destigmatize them. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Tags: visitors. Probably not.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. The event was streamed into Global Kids Teen Grid Here's what the kids has to say and photos. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. local time).

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

The cookie-cutter phenomenon started in the 70s because people have seen Boston [Children’s Museum] and seen the Exploratorium and they want one in their neighborhood. And that what’s happened with the revolution at Boston—everyone else thought we were cute and inconsequential.

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

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At the Boston Museum of Science's video kiosk on wind power, 3/4 of people were most interested in making their own video (as opposed to watching others). Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. And now onto the show. Interesting topics.

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Book Club Part 6: Getting People in the Door

Museum 2.0

The New York Hall of Science’s Career Ladder successfully recruits and advances neighborhood teens as floor explainers, and their full-time staff includes many people who have come “up through the ranks.” Tags: design Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum.

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

Museum 2.0

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Plus, malls are cool.

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