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Digital Beginnings: Parents As Scaffolds

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fast forward six years and he is sitting next to me and I'm explaining blogs to him and watching vlogs together. The other day, I received a request from an academic, Jackie Marsh, whose research focuses on the role of popular culture, media. and new technolgies in early literacy development. in the practice.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See Dave Winer's comments here, or as someone on the vlog list "Fighting for civilty using rudeness.". If you can’t find someone to take on this role take breaks - say every 10 mins - to check Twitter. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically.

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Is it time for a Social Reporter?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. I like the role/label and think David is spot on. Is "reporter" the right role?

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