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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning Briefing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Attending this press briefing will grant you access to a panel discussion and one-on-one time with some of the greatest minds and most influential s in the fields of technology, digital media, education and learning. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The John D.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. He has created a " Mashup Page " with the sub-title: Dr. Mashup or: Why educators should learn to stop worrying and love the remix.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Resource List Early Use of Backchannels Tara Hunt, Backchannel=Blogosphere Marc Cantor, Spell My Name Correctly Liz Lawley, Backchannel Modes Liz Lawley, Confessions of a Backchannel Queen Clay Shirky, Snarkiness on Parade NY Times, In the Lecture Hall, A Geek Chorus Dannah Boyd, Bridging Diverse Groups Backchannel in Learning and Education Vicky Davis, (..)

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

Or maybe education staff are not willing to engage real-time visitors in dialogue around controversial issues. There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century. There are some ideas that will never fly where you work. That’s fine.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 health emergency and the ensuing global crises only continue to exacerbate these inequities and drive colossal disruptions in the provision of education across the world — highlighting massive challenges that serve as wake-up calls for the social sector and catalysts for transformational change.