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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach.

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Reflection Wiki Instruction Instructional 56

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JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. As many of you know, I celebrated a milestone birthday this month.

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Generation Content Remix Reflection 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Then, in May 2007, the Scratch online community (called ScratchR) was released. It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. It's an inspiration to anyone trying to create an online community around informal learning. What make Scratch users come to the online community?

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Education Generation Remix Community 20

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APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. I said yes.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived. These videos inspire and instruct would-be participants while stroking the egos of past contributors.

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Participatory Music Project Video 48

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0 Baskets labeled with future projects for the Cambodian bloggers to do as a community were set out.

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Cambodia Social Media Game Blogger 56

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

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AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. SpeedGranting is a tool for the Facebook community to help spread the good by getting funding for worthy projects. Click to play.

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Jing Screencast SWF Project 50

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JUNE 15, 2007

This slide show from Common Craft uses a party as a metaphor for online community. Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. I do this all the time with annotated screen shots to provide "just in time" answers versus typing out instructions.

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Nptech Summary Tag Conversation 50

NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Earth Day, Remixed. Repower America created a submission form with an instructional video to make it as easy as possible. The key to getting submissions remained keeping it easy by offering step-by-step instructions. What if you wanted to showcase 1.8 This was the challenge for Repower America and they tackled it twice.

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Video Campaign Remix America 81

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Giving Day Campaigns and Crowd Funding Campaigns Are Than Dollars Raised.

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