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Fish Tale Has DNA Hook

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I've written about Dan Janzen's idea for a DNA barcoding device , which you could use to identify the different kinds of life you encounter. Best wishes David Duthie Fish Tale Has DNA Hook - Students Find Bad Labels - NYTimes.com

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is this my life? ;-). The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. It isn't quite a taxonomy, but it does layout the tags according to key aspects of the project. Who had input?

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Revitalizing Global Partnerships to Further the Sustainable Development Goals

Connection Cafe

As we thought more expansively about partnerships, a question was asked about what role students across the world can play in the SDGs and how can they participate. The panelists all agreed on the need for consistent, quantitative data accompanied by qualitative stories to make that data come to life.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. They want to improve their quality of life and confidence and lead an independent life. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. The volunteers were high school students.

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Free2choose and the Social Dimension of Polling Interactives

Museum 2.0

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. A one-minute video clip presents the issue (for example, whether students should be allowed to wear headscarves to school). The setup is always the same.

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