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#40BetterHours: The Art of Single Tasking

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It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience.

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3 Ways Social Media Fundraising Is Changing for 2021

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Increase your internal team’s Facebook literacy as well as your supporters’. EXPLORE OUR RESOURCES Courses Podcasts Webinars Papers Guides. Create educational resources about Facebook. For example, answer key questions about getting involved (“How do donors receive donation tax receipts from Facebook ?” “How

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

enhanced cultural and technical literacy, not just an ability to reuse materials, but a willingness to do so. I also recently discovered this post/podcast called " Remixing the Classroom." The podcast outlines the metaphor further. discoverable resources (does not mean repositories, but does mean openness).

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

vlogging, and podcasting). He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. . - Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g.

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An Interview with Silvia Tolisano of Langwitches Blog

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tools and my outlook on literacy, available information, research, and cross-referencing opinions has changed completely. My 6th graders last school year produced for the first time a podcast about Spanish speaking countries of the world as a review tool. I have read many blogs from people around the world, experimented with new web 2.0

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read an edited transcript below. It was written in very scribbled Nepali, her literacy skills were incredibly rudimentary, but what she ended up writing was a piece of journalism. She was also awarded their annual Ida B. Wells prize for Bravery in Journalism.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

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As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. Britt Bravo: Thanks for listening to the Big Vision podcast. Britt Bravo: Hi!