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Case Study: Transforming A National Network Culture Through Technology

NTEN

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Our tagline, " For your mission, and beyond.

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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

They’ve had lots of experience seeing what works and what doesn’t. How It Works. It is designed not only to enhance instruction in the classroom, but also to extend learning beyond the classroom. Bill Rappel says, "CFY has a decade of experience working with students, teachers and parents on the ground.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. There are approximately 50-60 students in five different countries working together to peer into the future of learning based upon the Horizon Project Report 2007 Edition by the New Media Consortium and Educause (pdf).

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. yes, pbwiki, wikispaces, and wetpaint have free versions). Know of any?

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. I'm nervous.

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