Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For them it’s really easy to take a class on Zoom, shut that window down, open up another Zoom link, and volunteer. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. However, many of the in-depth classes cost a bundle and take a week or more of your time. The GE Crotonville Center is the legendary example An easy "ask" for your local corporations is: can I get a donated seat in your classroom? Some are free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. No one would expect to have to protect terminally ill children from hackers, but co-founder Brian Westerman discovered that some of the kids the foundation was helping were being spied on through their laptop cameras.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. Over fifty avatars attended. I learned a lot. We will be holding a moot trial of Bragg v.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

” You know, you could say something like in one sentence, “You are helping kids go from bullied, and disconnected, and really struggling in the classroom to becoming a leader in their community amongst their peers and applying for college.” You’re helping to change lives of these students.” Put that in the chat.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students. She came to us with some very well-developed ideas on how to reach out to our educational users.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Last week, I had my first serious experience with useful back channels at a conference ( WebWise ), and it taught me some lessons about how back channels might be used effectively as a learning tool in museums and other experiential venues (like conferences and classrooms). The back channel isn’t just a social space.

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