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New Media Literacy Site from MIT - and check out the great Vlog Tutorial!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The new media literacies web site is working to integrate new media materials into compelling activities for K-12 students for use in or out of school. Vlogs As Citizen Media From Steve Garfield's Flickr Stream. Henry Jenkins is the Team Leader. There are tons of excellent resources here! Welcome to Videoblogging 2.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These teens are actively involved what Jenkins calls "participatory culture" - a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. .

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Is it time for a Social Reporter?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. Last week or the weekend before I was at a conference, with wireless and live blogging and vlogging.

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