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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. There are 12,000 to 14,000 classroom project requests on the site at a time. .

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Here's how to search on Technorati. Found from this Technorati Search ).

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He described the curriculum where inmates learn both computer skills and the recording/audio production skills and the classroom space (with "walls made of radio signals"). He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. The student is contributing the body of knowledge.

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Stop Cyberbullying Day: Some Inspiration from the Blogosphere

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: SHARE - Plan to show this video to your students. Speak up in your sphere of influence: the classroom, the PTO, the civic group, the government agency, the educators organization. " Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying ,

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Carnet Williams: Nonprofit Technology, Blogging, Aggregating, & Surfing.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While checking my links in Technorati last month, I came across a link from a blog named "Darkstar.org" and wasn't sure who it was. I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) Many of our students ended up staying in the sector after they graduated.