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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Emily at Emily's World offers her thoughts about "Integrating Web Sites into Teaching." " She asks: "As a web designer, I am very interested in the future of educational websites. In my opinion, websites need to have more instruction on how educators can make use of the site."

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Army for the opportunity to participate in this important project and to build their official web site at ForLoveofLiberty.net. Designed specifically for students, educators, and veterans, the site and its content enable users to experience the history of African-American soldiers in an extremely personal manner.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Note from Beth: Every now and then, I get asked when did you first discover the power of the social web? Even if you have the most awesome web site, campaign, or cause out there, you need a thoughtful and dedicated community behind it in order for it to be successful. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. Is there a site where you can get vetted information about nonprofits you might be considering making a donation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

While doing research on the Web for the course content, I stumbled upon an article called " A Field Guide to Cross Cultural Projects " which lead me to an educational technology integration model called CultureQuest. Creating and designing Web sites to publish student work. Using desktop videoconferencing.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Here are the top five ways building a community on social networking sites benefits nonprofits advocating for social change. While it's true that social media is not a silver bullet for major list growth or mega fundraising yet, it is helping to strengthen social justice movements.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Burlington Public Library was one of our test installation sites. After the system was up and running, they found that the refresh rate when scrolling down a long web page was sometimes a problem. We then did check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use. The solution was to disable the IE security settings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Today is Blog Action Day where over 11,000 bloggers/sites around the world will publish, donate, or promote the issue of poverty.  In the classroom, I got to hear a lot of theories as to why poverty exists - but that actually made things seem more confusing.   The event will certainly spread awareness of the issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. s called a web site. I think of a web site as a one-way lecture where someone is talking at me.

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Forum One

MARCH 17, 2010

Even if you have the most awesome web site, campaign, or cause out there, you need a thoughtful and dedicated community behind it in order for it to be successful. During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. is a free web application that lets you brainstorm online. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

which was based on Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web 2.0 site that has photos, etc., I also recently discovered this post/podcast called " Remixing the Classroom." A student came up with an amazing metaphor for how intellectual property should work in the classroom and in greater society. to Change The World.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. national web site for Assistive Technology. This nonprofit has been running for over 20 years. Assistive Tech , the U.S. Closing the Gap Resource Directory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Are Web statistics a matter of transparency. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I left the classroom in 2007 to join Teach For America staff where I pioneered graduate school recruitment for the organization through May of this year. Where can you find these people on the social web? This is an awesome site popular with young people. in General Childhood Education at Bank Street College of Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

We publish a quarter of all of the students' stories in our annual anthology, which you can find in San Francisco bookstores [and on the Streetside web site ]. So, I decided that I want to be a classroom teacher, and I've applied to school. Update: Viet-Ly was accepted into a teach credential program for this fall].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. Dr. Mizuko Ito made the point that digital learning is happening primarily outside fo the classroom and in more of a social and play context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The players conduct a site visit to understand the problem from the point of view of people who use the street everyday. The toolkit has three pieces: Web site Classroom curriculum - game intended to be used in the class for roleplaying exercise. Goal: To make it freely available and distributing it via the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. MacArthur Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

From my view, this is what the web should help us do: become a global learning community. Sites/Blogs about blogging as an instructional tool: Weblogs in the Classroom provides links to articles, tools and examples. Similarly, as an online learner, I find it exciting to share ideas and learn from and with others.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

The kids were everywhere, they're running around, they're cursing, they're throwing things, they're angry, they're upset, just everything coming out, and we would go out into the garden, and you would just see them relax, like just being outdoors, instead of in the classroom. Britt Bravo: What does a typical class day look like?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with March of Dimes to consolidate their more than 40 web platforms to develop an easy and streamlined online experience that could clearly communicate their mission and allow audience members to engage as they like.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with March of Dimes to consolidate their more than 40 web platforms to develop an easy and streamlined online experience that could clearly communicate their mission and allow audience members to engage as they like.

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MAY 9, 2007

Strictly speaking, Second Life isn’t Web 2.0. In fact, at this point it isn’t even on the Web at all. Just as with the telephone, television, the Web, mobile phones, e-mail, etc., While the Web allows for information and communication about museums and exhibits, the virtual world could actually contain museums themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

Like Mozilla, we believe the Web is a “shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold.” Make sure your privacy principles apply across all platforms, both on your own hosted sites and elsewhere. Limited data. Collect only what you need. Use non-personally identifying forms whenever possible. User control.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Shortly after I published my wiki gardening post, Howard Rheingold added it to the syllabus of the social media classroom. Back in 1995, I had a web 1.0 site that was like a blog. I posted a new page every day describing a new web site by an arts nonprofit or tool. The site was called Spider School.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

With the growing trend of social features in game design and in web services, there has been a growing buzz around such motivational systems. Prior to Minds On Design Lab, Seth worked in the educational field first as a 5th grade classroom teacher and then as a technology and support leader in a thriving education technology startup.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The majority of the executive departments and agencies opted to meet this requirement through the implementation of an open government public web site built on the IdeaScale platform. The individual sites, which are now live, provide an important opportunity for citizens to have their voice heard on open government. In a Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

First off, I want to thank Andy Carvin for organizing this day and the ning site and leading by example - showing us how to take an issue and integrate the use of new social media tools! Speak up in your sphere of influence: the classroom, the PTO, the civic group, the government agency, the educators organization. about civility!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. According to the web site , the event will unfold in three phases: Phase one: Launch the homepage with a list of cities which have already registered.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For example, while the iPad features a full-featured browser, it's more than just a web browser you tote with you. In addition to your web site, a tablet computer also gives you the ability to circulate an electronic petition — in person. This innovative platform presents new opportunities and challenges for organizations.

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