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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. This is a problem for two reasons. What if I assigned you to make a video of your ideas about justice?

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Babycastles is New York’s first independent video arcade. One man came in that was 82 years old and said he’d never played a video game before – he was given a controller and taught how to navigate.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. This is a problem for two reasons. What if I assigned you to make a video of your ideas about justice?

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Go read it. The skill set: Play ???

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

NTEN

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Babycastles is New York's first independent video arcade. One man came in that was 82 years old and said he'd never played a video game before - he was given a controller and taught how to navigate.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. There's not a lot of work in pinball, and I had a deep secondary interest in unschooling and free-choice learning.

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