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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. Jana will share some techniques such as mind mapping and sketchnotes as well as share the different options for tools – both analog (paper and markers) and digital (ipad). Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Takeaways.

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup

An online collaborative space like wikispaces? Share your favorite tools - or questions about tools - in the comments below or at the Digital Engagement branch of the TechSoup Community forum ! If you have a favorite networking tool for working with volunteers, we would love to hear about it? Is it Facebook?

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A Nonprofit Version of Widget Box?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We believe that this sort of project is something that all teachers can eventually incorporate at the high school level and is an essential tool for developing effective digital citizenship. Several small scale discussions via Skype will be had with the teachers and these journalists. Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming.

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t have minded, but I guess I just felt my digital immigrant accent cut in when I thought 1) I shouldn???t t mess with their stuff, and 2) about the need for some control over my own work. Wow, no wonder it???s s hard to convince others of trying to let go of ???old old ways???

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

Tech Soup

Since then, the organization has partnered with hundreds of schools and provided digital learning resources to 50,000 families in five cities. It's our mission to help students, teachers, and parents use digital learning to help students do better in school." Kellogg Foundation. She's something of a force of nature.

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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

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. Eric Rice writes about the digital divide in California, while Web2.0 happens, I observe day laborers.