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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Participatory processes often (and sometimes unintentionally) restructure the product. That''s expected.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Last year, I did a workshop at a conference for professionals who do audio description, a service that makes visual images of theatre, television, movies, and other art forms accessible to people are who blind or have low vision.

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. You can come alone or with up to three people.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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How to license mixed media, without a law degree

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. If you upload your images to Flickr, the license information is displayed on the photo page ; 3) Embed the license information directly into the file. Beth's Flickr Stream.

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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