Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. All the designers will only give me plastic trees."

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. A Sickening Discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Your design is not just about content. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is not new, but it was on the minds of our volunteer managers, and in a big way. 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. Here’s what they had to say.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Going to school and playing with friends are usually the only things on a child's mind, and normally not in that order. Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. A Sickening Discovery.

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Children Foundation Laptop Camera 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. People go to school because they have to or want to in order to get to their goal.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

After a short conversation with the eccentric donor, she realized that every donor has a different motivation for giving, and a smart fundraiser should keep in mind the donor’s motivation when asking for a donation. Check out their top 15 resources for finding or creating the finances needed in the classroom !

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Oakland Classroom Chicago Conference 55

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. On the other end of the spectrum, there are uses of technology to create unique "co-create" opportunities, if not open opportunities, where content can be made available through APIs and syndication for others to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Transmedia storytelling is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media. It is a much a deeper engagement with the content and the influencers or those most passionate about the cause. She offers some examples of this approach from the activism field.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Keep in mind that use cases need to fit your organization needs for an LMS. Demonstrate how instructors can manage an instructor led training classroom. Show how a web page url can be turned into training content in the solution. Show how a document can be uploaded and turned into training content in the solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important. South by Southwest reinforced the true value of connecting like-minded groups in person — particularly in our field. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere. Some may exist solely online.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important. South by Southwest reinforced the true value of connecting like-minded groups in person — particularly in our field. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere. And am I ever energized.

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Community Offline Hype America 58

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. Is our content compelling? Social Capital 2019. Feb 26 - 28. Social Capital Partnerships / Alexandria, VA / By invitation. General / @ILAToday.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

With that in mind, we’ll dive into general best practices when it comes to the pre-planning stage, venue management, staff assignments, and any tech considerations. With these questions in mind, your team can optimize the venue, start assigning and training staff members, and come up with a plan to mitigate any future issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Susie's Blog (winning hearts and minds over to FOSS) is on a jargon busting binge and has found a wiki that explains what all the alphabet soup of acronyms in the nonprofit sector in the UK means. The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. There's also dogooder.tv New (to me) Blogs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. 5) Online classes.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. With this in mind, you could include stories in your auction marketing materials that illustrate how your programs have helped kids learn to read.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds. The wysiwyg tools in Second Life for making interactive content, while crude by the standards of the video game, animation, or industrial design industries, allow for a much more efficient and social design process. Marketing Plan.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. So we know for a fact the content without context is meaningless. So content without context is meaningless. Does that make sense?

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

By Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. As educators we strive to facilitate experiences where the content is so rich, the activity so engaging, and/or the skill so problem solving that students are motivated internally to continue to learn. Do you remember that feeling of achievement when you earned a new star?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2015

That organization is Learning to Give , a nonprofit that works, through K-12 teachers, to “spark students to learn and act for good” by providing more than 1,700 lesson plans designed to both inspire and equip students to use their hearts and minds to impact the world.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Now, NYSCI is experimenting in a new medium, with a very tough and adult content focus. I sat down with Eric Siegel, NYSCI’s Director and Chief Content Officer, to learn more about False Conviction. While the content is really compelling, the audience and format are obviously challenging. That’s not easy.

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