Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 4, 2009
FreshBrain is focused on an important problem - filling the gap in the education that our teens receive, specifically in the area of 21st Century Skills. Their website, freshBrain.org , provides a social networking based platform where teens can innovate, create and share using a variety of technologies.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? The answer by GSA staffer, was ?No
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. There is this idea that by getting on MySpace you open yourself up to sexual predators and murderers. Teens talk about the organizations at their local church, and thus the church creates a MySpace profile. Follow us on Twitter!&#
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.
Museum 2.0
JULY 20, 2010
Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.
Get Fully Funded
MAY 4, 2021
Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? If a photographer or videographer will be onsite give the volunteer a name tag in a different color, and let the photographer or videographer know to avoid those people. What is the minimum age required to volunteer with this organization? Is proof of age required?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 1, 2009
I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Second, open-ended self-expression requires self-directed creativity. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”
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