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Virtual Morocco in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar with a fez I pocked up in Virtual Morocco in Second Life, a student project! Now via New Media Consortium: Teachers Buzz Session (a weekly gathering of educators in Second Life to visit and discuss SL education projects) comes the opportunity to answer thoese questions via a virtual field trip to Morocco.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. Azzam whose team had won 3rd place in the Microsoft’s Imagine Cup , a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program for student technology and social entrepreneurs. Rami Al-Karmi, N2V Lab.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Just three years ago, negotiators from around the world converged on Marrakesh, Morocco, to hash out a final deal. It works well for students in the United States, but we’re still not reaching American adults to the extent we would like. All students around the world have access to rich and varied educational content. •

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A Guide To Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It comes from Digiactive , a five-month-old site devoted to digital activism and was written by Dan Schultz , a student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He was one of 27 individuals to win the first Knight News Challenge. It is a quick read and very useful.

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Multi-Country Rollout of Salesforce to Support Workforce Development in the Middle East and North Africa

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The solution allowed EFE staff to carry out their day-to-day activities more efficiently and strengthen student, donor, and partner management. After the first implementation with EFE-Jordan, Salesforce was gradually rolled out across EFE Affiliates in Tunisia, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, and United Arab Emirates.

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