Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. A Sickening Discovery.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. A Sickening Discovery.

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Children Foundation Laptop Camera 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

(Psst, also consider entering the Muse Awards come 2020, but that's a story for another day) @artlust doing a charming job hosting us at #museawards #AAM2019 ! As important as excellence is, shared success is equally important in this field. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. Brian uses donated laptops and tablets with Skype software, connected to cameras in the children's classrooms. A Sickening Discovery.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. Since most educational games struggle to find logical ways to be integrated into a classroom, Ovos took a different approach by creating a game based solely on curriculum-based material. JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

They are not content to just sit and click. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats. Communicate more frequently in shorter bursts of “snackable content”.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Operating in over 50 regions across the country, TFA finds, develops, and supports a diverse network of leaders who expand opportunity for children across classrooms, schools, and any sector or field that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate. Success Story: Creating Engaging Student Journeys With St.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Any successful fundraiser knows the value of good marketing. With a compelling and content-optimized event website. Post real stories as impact statements on your campaign website to connect donors to your mission and incentivize them to give. Use social media to provide consistent campaign updates and fun promotional content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

They are not content to just sit and click. Isadora Faber, a 14-year-old Brazilian student, launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats. Communicate more frequently in shorter bursts of “snackable content”.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios. TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling. The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. Others suggest that numbers alone don't tell the story.

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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. 16) Hybrid costume party.

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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. Robin’s asking, “Writing a grant, how can you report impact and add measures to success with looking for funding for a pilot program?”

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We also created highlights pages of infographics, visualizations, and data stories to summarize key takeaways, trends, and insights into the state of K-12 education, including those for the Mathematics , Reading , and Science reports. As you can see, while it was a busy year full of changes, it was also one of growth and great success.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We also created highlights pages of infographics, visualizations, and data stories to summarize key takeaways, trends, and insights into the state of K-12 education, including those for the Mathematics , Reading , and Science reports. As you can see, while it was a busy year full of changes, it was also one of growth and great success.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

This gallery has always been tough for exhibitions--it serves as a pass-through to the classroom, and during evening events, people pour through it on their way to and from classroom activities. The content was developed in a participatory way but is presented traditionally via artifacts, text, photos, and audio.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Now, all students and schools can achieve the level of success experienced by one of our student users, Tyler Norwood, a seventh grade student at the Corte Madera School in Portola Valley, California. The next day, Monday, Bookshare.org was free to all U.S. In the first three months we quadrupled the number of students we serve!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2009

I hope you'll share your own story in the comments. We talked about the atmosphere in our offices, classrooms, and homes. We cheered and booed, questioned some parts and added additional content about others. I didn't have to choose between the noisy chatter and the highly produced push content.

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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. How did you make decisions about how to structure the story? The result is False Conviction: Innocence, Guilt, and Science.

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