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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

Have Fun - Do Good

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Based on that message, at the following 30th TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I delivered an onstage exhortation to fellow technologists to secure their customers’ sensitive information in response to Edward Snowden’s surprise virtual TED interview. And we do this at a per-book cost less than one-tenth of the traditional approaches!

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others.

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Digital Natives and Twitter (and RSS)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. In the article, the author interviewed Walter J. None of them had heard of Twitter, let alone used it.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

This " Demo Spotlight " highlighted six upcoming games to present their work in front of a stellar jury: Frank Lantz of Zynga New York and NYU, Ken Perlin of the Games for Learning Institute , and Connie Yowell from the MacArthur Foundation. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. SOS_SLAVES. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Finding the Great Impact Story

Tech Soup

We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay. A month after the story was published, an email arrived from a writer at the New York Times who had discovered our feature and wanted to write it up.

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

Museum 2.0

Then again, the New York Hall of Science isn’t just any science center. This interview is not really about an ebook. My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that. interview Technology Tools Worth Checking Out'

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