Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 3, 2010
Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”
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Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
Here in Barcelona, it's standard to see three languages on labels (Catalan, Spanish, English), and in Scandinavia I've seen as many as six. Even in North America, it's becoming typical to see two languages on the walls. As far as I see, an institution like this could: focus on non-language-based participation.
NTEN
AUGUST 31, 2010
Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. .
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.
Museum 2.0
MAY 20, 2008
This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The motivation behind it is the same: the body language equivalent of saying "you should look at this.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 31, 2009
The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows.
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