Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Meantime, if you’re not familiar with DonorsChoose, the idea is a simple one: It’s a site where public school teachers could post what materials they were lacking in the classroom. The cool part?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

Nancy White has a great post about "Blog as Classroom, Playground, Mind Trip" I went directly to the playground, a place to experiment and learn how to incorporate web 2.0 Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , inventiveness. technologies into teaching practice. into their organization's missions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

This is a test to see if I've made onto the wireless network in the classroom at the iLaw conference. Technorati Tags: ilaw We're waiting for the first session to begin, Intellectual Property Protection for Code. The speakers are William Fisher and Jonathan Zittrain. I'm noticing that many laptops here have bumper stickers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

On Friday, I'm doing Chinese New Year lessons at Harry's and Sara's respective classrooms on Friday. At Harry's school, there is an Internet-connected computer, MAC. I didn't want to mess with installing (and unstalling) SKYPE on the computer so I could call Nick in Hong Kong as we view his flickr photo set and he could answer questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

Last year, Sarah Bunting, who writes the blog Tomato Nation , a culture and humor blog, offered to shave her head if her blog readers donated to DonorsChoose.org , a site that allows donors to purchase school supplies for needy classrooms. Does it illustrate the problems of using the Technorati rank as any serious benchmark?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

Coolcat Teacher wrote an excellent post reflecting on the use of backchannels in the classroom. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , backchannel , learning. Technorati Tags: lesblogs Some more things to read on backchannel Backchannel = Blogosphere Liz Lawley on Backchannels and here. Update: September, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2006

Technorati Tags: chinese_new_year Other options: I've collected some great links to many other resources and activities and will need this in the future. Depending on the number of kids/teachers and parents, may need to do fewer centers.). Read Story about Lion Dance. Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year's. Snack and Goodie Bags.

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