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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. What Holly said in a recent tweet!)

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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

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The project is also associated with the White House's Digital Promise initiative , which aims to identify breakthrough learning technologies, determine quickly what works and what doesn’t, and to get the good tools in widespread use among students, parents, and teachers. How It Works. states have adopted.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. We believe that this sort of project is something that all teachers can eventually incorporate at the high school level and is an essential tool for developing effective digital citizenship.

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Wiki Wiki Means Quickly in Hawaiin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I " My colleague, Vicky Davis , is leading a session at the K-12 Online Conference on wikis in the classroom. David Pollard offers some insights why people don't use collaboration tools like wikis. " Maybe we should start a wiki?

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How: 6 Tools and Tips. I think I made up the term " social instructional design " which is how you integrate social media tools into your workshop AND how you plan for engagement during delivery. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Are the three wiki tools listed free? Know of any?

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

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shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible.

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