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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. ” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) 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. We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

Museum 2.0

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. How much do we value brand awareness outside of local markets?

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