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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. One thing you'll notice is that the presentation itself is a remix of a remix. I remixed it from an earlier prsentation called Associations 2.0 The CC licensed work on Flickr and CCmixter are wonderful resources.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Liz Strauss Asks - Are Crayons Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It made remember the workshops I taught way back in 1993 for arts people about Internet literacy - the web was just getting started. It's a stellar example of good visual presentation and use of creative commons licensing. What would you change, add, or remove if you were to remix this slide show for a nonprofit audience ?

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Durff's Slide Show: Why Integrate Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Search on flickr using creative commons licensing. The point that blogging builds literacy - you show me a bunch of photos of kids at computers and a screenshot of the Starbucks campaign. What are you trying say about the connection between blogging and literacy? Is it licensed by creative commons?

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

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Joshua Greenberg from the New York Public Library talked about transitioning from teaching information literacy to information fluency—helping visitors navigate and harness the vast world of digital information to their own ends. Of course, to do this, staff have to be not just fluent but masters of new information platforms.

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