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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These stories come from all over the world such as US, China, Russia, Japan, etc. That is why we need to show them clear instructions and reward them with praises. He asked them a question. .” To help young children understand, we tell international folk stories to illustrate our ten values. But he said, “No!

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. ask each member of the circle to pick two people, but don't tell them. His guide in country turned to him and said, "Be yourself.