Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

For example, Harry showed me a few keyboard shortcuts that I didn't know. Making media together is another way to teach your children about various causes. Here's a few stories about some children mentioned in the video: Sina, age 15, is an orphan and head of her family, two younger sisters aged 12 and 9.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. Luckily, we seem to be too small, and our human rights activist users don’t seem to be a top priority for them!

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FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another direct content example is that of the number of websites that emerged post-Hurricane Katrina. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2008

TSF has helped support a poor school named Beng Krom School, with 595 grammar school children on the far side of the Mekong. s children really need three latrines to expand from the two they have for all their children and teachers. For example, I know that Earl K. Now Beng Krom???s and Ruth K. are my parents.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2015

Magic is part of the Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses , a Florida charity that visits more than 35,000 adults and children each year with its team of tiny horses. The organization visits hospitals, hospice programs, and children who have experienced traumatic events. and 2x, respectively." Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

fast forward six years and he is sitting next to me and I'm explaining blogs to him and watching vlogs together. and new technolgies in early literacy development. She came across my " Mommy, what's a blog " post when looking for examples of young children's involvement. young children's interest in them."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I guess you could say it is an example of in-bound marketing. The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. Example : Lets say 20 people on the list below retweet the article (more on how to make this happen a little later).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

A good example of such a program is Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley Assistive Technology Services. Programs like this often add an array of useful freeware software to their AT computers like GCompris , Childsplay , and the Zacbrowser , which is an Internet browser specifically designed for autistic children. Touch the Future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

The poetry program uses poetry books recommended by ReadBoston , one of the first citywide programs designed to help children learn to read. It unites children, families and the community to help children be successful readers by third grade. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference. All live blogging disclaimers apply. What are the best examples of social networking use? How do increase internet literacy with communities? Use this to communicate with your children. GapersBlock - great example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2005

I've been researching typing skills curriculum for young children for an after-school ctc. I found some excellent lesson plans where the emphasis is on integrating typing into learning, early literacy skills. One example had a family - the clicker family. Each finger puppet has a job or is assigned to a letter in a row.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

" Over the years, I taught many workshops for arts educators on how to integrate the web into the curriculum, although not as much recently since I have two small children. Note to self: Time to rethink the old 1998-99 version of " Zen and the Art of Internet Searching " to incorporate tags/blogs).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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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.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. Chuck offered a quote from an advisory psychologist who commented that "children should be the brightest thing in the space." Tags: evaluation children's museums exhibition design professional development.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I wrote about that visit in my last blog post: Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos. Their goal is to help protect vulnerable children. I especially appreciate Big Brother Mouse because of their shared focus on access to literacy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. Women and their children are disproportionately victims of outside violence as well. Women and children are 70% of those who live on less than $2 or $1 a day.

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