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Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

What was the basis for this project? How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Why is that?

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls.

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out professional development.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. The content is often seen as not being community-specific.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. As of today, ScratchR boasts 236,997 projects created by 37,820 contributors of ScratchR's 174,425 registered members. The ScratchR spectators are part of the 5 million+ ScratchR website visitors who check out projects but don't join.