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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 28, 2014
Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 22, 2007
I love the photos, but I think you can better visually demonstrate the ideas expressed in the reasons - For example, "Blogging Connects Us To Global Conversations" - Why not a screenshot of Globals or this photo for example example, although it is all rights reserved, but you could ask permission).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 3, 2010
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?"
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 21, 2006
I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 19, 2006
That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. That's Danah Boyd in RL who was also live blogging the event. He was also in NYC and live blogging the event as was Danah Boyd - the official MacArthur Foundation live blogger. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places.
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. The basic idea is that there is a set of skills that need to be emphasized for kids today to be good citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st century--skills like collaboration, global awareness, and media literacy.
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