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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. s boot-strapping the project with graduate students and resources scrapped together from LANL, in a very entrepreneurial manner. s Los Alamos National Lab.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. s boot-strapping the project with graduate students and resources scrapped together from LANL, in a very entrepreneurial manner. s Los Alamos National Lab.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The anatomy of a dispute is to identify parties, issues, and structure a process and create an environment for feedback from neutral observers. He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison?

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Teachers still steer the boat, but students have much more freedom and opportunity with the controls.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

I see four main reasons: Most participatory experimentation in museums starts in educational departments, and many educators primarily engage (and are funded to work with) students. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. It's messy.

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Tags: Benetech internships human rights Miradi fellowships MBA environment Bookshare.