Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Games — both digital and analog — provide a great opportunity for inviting players to interact with a real-world causes and societal challenges. government and encouraging participatory democracy. The Senate Immersion Module will launch in Boston in March, at the opening of the EMK Institute. Never Alone (Kisima In?itchu?a).

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Game Tech Support Module 50

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I went to two science centers, one huge (Museum of Science Boston) and one tiny (Acton Science Discovery Museum), and told them: "I'll work for you for free for three months, and then let's talk about whether you are going to pay me." By the spring of 2003 I felt I'd learned what I could in Boston and tried to figure out where to go next.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This conference will be the platform for improving public awareness and receptivity to direct and interactive market driven philanthropy. AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. This is your chance to meet, interact and learn from the best of the nonprofit best in fundraising, marketing and more. EverTrue / Boston, MA / $300.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

A New Kind of ARG Like most ARGs, the Luce Center's Ghosts of a Chance is an interactive narrative that rolls out over several weeks. Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming.

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

2 Participatory Chinatown In this game, you're transported to Boston's Chinatown to view the development of new areas through the perspective of the varied citizens that make up their corner of the city.

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Game Impact Libya Social 88

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. HubSpot / Boston, MA / Less than $1,000. INBOUND 2016.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111