Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. • I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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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?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. They appointed a person in the room as the "Backchannel Advocate" and the speaker would ask them verbalize questions from the backchannel. One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. Educators need to intervene and make creative alliances.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Without getting too deeply in the weeds, 21st Century Skills is a phrase that has gained a lot of traction in US policy circles around education and workforce development. The point of the project is to train educator staff to be able to appropriately scaffold visitors' experiences at the museum.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. She came to us with some very well-developed ideas on how to reach out to our educational users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Next year, we hope to develop Entoure’s presence online to provide a truly virtual counterpart to their cycle and fitness events so that our online supporters and friends of the cyclists can experience all the effort in preparing for the ride and they 400km/3 day challenge itself – with blogs, videos, images, live commentary, audio interview.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

Take the time to package the story as best you can: add photos, video, audio, pull quotes, infographics. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program.

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APRIL 26, 2021

This is an example of a peer-to-peer event page by BEACON for Adult Literacy.]. BEACON for Adult Literacy’s peer-to-peer page draws users in with a branded banner image showcasing what this event is and the core mission—adult literacy. The fundraiser leaderboard and thermometer are testaments to the success of the event.

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