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Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun and Do Good

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Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. Johns Village Project is a moms-and-tots playgroup that brings together teen moms and adult moms, with all our kids. Tags: interview havefundogood guest.

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Teenagers and Social Participation

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Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project. You have been elevated by the opportunity to contribute to the project. Instead, they are participating in larger projects, joining the team, doing their part.

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

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Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Eventually, the age gap will disappear as native users grow older and raise children who are native users. Tags: aarp age digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN Sami Hassanyeh.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project. You have been elevated by the opportunity to contribute to the project. Instead, they are participating in larger projects, joining the team, doing their part.

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

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For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g. Because of the incredible popularity of genealogy as an activity, history museums are also excellent places for visitor-generated or -supported research projects (e.g.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

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By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Tags: visitors.

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