That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. million per year to provide accessible book services to students with qualifying print disabilities nationwide. serving students with print disabilities. MORE
Students Connect with Community by Providing Tech Help : The founder of Project SPARTA, Raulston seeks opportunities to match unmet technological needs in the Tallahassee nonprofit community with students eager to gain practical experience working in the information technology field. The great thing about SPARTA is that it provides students the ability to try multiple career opportunities until they find that one thing that ignites their passion,” Raulston said MORE
Schools have a unique opportunity to build their Facebook following and stay connected with alumni due to the captive audience and deep relationships that are built with students, families and faculty. Get “Likes” from Students & Families. Past students sharing their stories. MORE
I talk a lot about how technology can help create tremendous educational opportunities for students with print disabilities. Steffon, who attends Gadsden Community College in Gadsden, Alabama is a straight-A student who has made his college deans list each semester. MORE
all too many students with print disabilities might not have the textbooks they need for class. However, students often don’t know what books they need until the first days of school—a hectic time when Bookshare receives thousands of book requests. MORE
HuffPo recently published my first post, Disabled Students Need Accessible Books. It's great to be able to bring this kind of attention to our work at Bookshare helping students with print disabilities. The Huffington Post recently invited me to become a guest blogger, based on a connection to Arianna Huffington from the Craigslist Nonprofit Boot Camp. MORE
Visit Mexico where the CEGE Foundation uses donated Microsoft software like Expression Studio 4 to prepare university students for careers in information and communication technology. The TechSoup Global network has donated 9.7 MORE
Another interesting infographic from BachelorsDegreeOnline , using data from Educause’s ECAR Annual Study of Students and IT. Are you ready for when these undergrads become grads… and postgrads… and coming to you for professional development ? MORE
Is the Internet Stupefying Students?: "By By the professor’s rule, students in the English classes of Dr. Mark Bauerlein at Emory University must take notes by hand. Laptops must be turned off, he says, to ensure students focus on what’s happening in the room, rather than on what’s floating around cyberspace.“In In half of those screens, they’re on Facebook,” Bauerlein says of the situation in other MORE
I greatly enjoy talking to students, and I am now in Ottawa, Canada, just having spoken to an incredible group of students, Engineers Without Borders Canada. I'm at the annual Canadian EWB conference (each of the EWB country groups is independent of the other), and there are hundreds and hundreds of students here. Mainly engineering students, but as EWB Canada has grown and matured, they've increased the size of their umbrella and welcome non-engineering students. MORE
Student life offices at colleges have a difficult time getting through to students. Students often ignore posters and flyers and don’t read school emails. Text messaging is a great way for student life offices to promote events to the student body. MORE
College students contribute to growing business Nonprofit Hub | News | dailynebraskan.com : "University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior Angela Cuadros treats philanthropy like a job. Each week, there are the hours spent mentoring a 17-year-old girl and volunteering with Dance Marathon. And there’s her position as a resident assistant in Eastside Suites. But this August, Cuadros decided to take her interest for helping others into her professional life as well. MORE
College campuses nationwide are joining the mobile revolution as they realize that it is the best way to reach their students. Make a phone call and a student is unlikely to answer. But send a text, and there’s a 99% chance a student will read it. Many college students don’t even know where to pick up their mail! But send a text, and a student will be 40 times more likely to respond to you than if they received an email. Texting Makes Better Students. MORE
————— Many college students are willingly without a landline, but few are without their social media in the palm of their hand. From Twitter, to Facebook, to Pinterest, there are a variety of ways to stay connected with the staff and student body. MORE
While brainstorming ideas for a fundraising event I have coming up, I tried to think of all the events I had been to and what I liked and remembered most about each of them. After some pondering, I realized that I couldn’t come up with much of anything. There wasn’t a single event that stood out to me. I couldn’t even think of the causes most of the events were supporting! This got me thinking. What could the organizations have done better to keep my attention? MORE
ITWorks students graduate December 2013. Through the course of the program, ITWorks students get internship experience while they earn a professional certification in IT. Even on graduation, students had lessons to learn. MORE
Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. with a collection of over 126,000 books (and counting) that currently serves more than 148,000 members, including over 143,000 students. Qualifying students, however, represent but a small fraction of those who can benefit from accessible books. million students (15% of the U.S. MORE
In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. Roughly 1–2 per cent of students in the United States meet these requirements. MORE
According to a new article by The New York Times , a light nudge can make a big impact in the lives of students. The study found that 70% of students who received the texts were likely to enroll in college, compared to 63% for those who did not receive the messages. MORE
The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Student organization connects non-profits with app development : "Two seniors are vying to save nonprofits thousands of dollars. Co-founded by Wharton and Engineering senior Dhruv Maheshwari and Engineering senior Ali Altaf, Hack4Impact connects student developer talent with nonprofit organizations free of charge. MORE
This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. The Poet application developed by DIAGRAM helps level the playing field by making otherwise inaccessible graphic content available for students and other readers who cannot read traditional books. MORE
A high school student called to ask if I would be in her school project: a video about carbon offsets. It''s only 12 minutes long, so give it a watch , and support a student filmmaker. A looooong time ago, in March 2007, I wrote a blog post, What Do You Think of Carbon Offsets? MORE
One of the big firsts that college students face is learning how to be responsible for their personal wellness. These two factors make text messaging the perfect choice for helping college students take charge of their own well being. MORE
But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. As part of the dinner tradition, AH student leaders, Justin Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer of the AH Student Association, and Torrie Yerkovich, Senior Dinner Chair, planned and hosted the event. MORE
Despite their blossoming independence, college students like to travel in packs. You could even get specific into their majors—for example, if you have some graphic designers or architecture students, you could have them work on an infographic for the week. MORE
High school students build electric car powered by social media - Chicago Tribune : High school students have turned a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia into an all-electric car that is powered by tweets, shares, posts and likes. Turning tweets into watts will take the at-risk students from Kansas City to Washington, D.C. MORE
Twenty-two students from the ASU Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Student Association joined hundreds of the brightest future nonprofit professionals from 33 campuses across the country. Our students did a tremendous job of being leaders and carrying themselves with pride. MORE
Text messaging is the most popular means of communication for college students: studies show that people ages 18-29 text more than any other generation, and use their phones more for text messaging than anything else. Answer questions about student enrollment with text messaging. MORE
While close to 70% of US college students say that they don’t consider themselves to be politically engaged or politically active, 1/3 say online tools such as Facebook, YouTube, blogs and Twitter have greater impact than face to face advocacy, according to recent studies by Knowledge Networks on behalf of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. MORE
Tech Journey returns for second year with more students, stronger mission - Silicon Prairie News : Last year Tony Kioko and a team of other local IT professionals did what, at the time, seemed impossible. They created a nonprofit—Tech Journey—to help empower Des Moines students with limited access to resources to take an interest in technology. MORE
Wired Campus: After Shooting, Students Connect Through Facebook - Chronicle.com: "After Shooting, Students Connect Through FacebookIn the wake of the shooting at Northern Illinois University, numerous groups commemorating the event have already cropped up on Facebook.On one of the largest groups, “Pray for Northern Illinois University Students and Families,” hundreds of students from different MORE
There was a time when that annual rite of passage known as spring break meant one thing for nearly every college student: the chance to let loose—usually in a warm climate—and party down. So make concessions and appeals that allow the students to volunteer in groups. MORE
College campuses nationwide are joining the mobile revolution as they realize that it is the best way to reach their students. Make a phone call and the student is unlikely to answer. But send a text, and there’s a 99% chance the student will read it. MORE
Why Journalism Students Need a Baseline Understanding of Coding | Mediashift | PBS : ". If we don’t expose our students to this — students we want to lead the next generation of journalism and communication — we are doing them a disservice. In fact, it would be smart for universities to add a general coding class to the core curriculum required of students in all fields. MORE
Text messaging is a great tool for helping students adhere to their studying goals. Here are three ways that SMS can keep students stay on track with their study plans and achieve their test day goals. Remind and motivate students to stick to their study plan. MORE
The mission of NAF is to sustain a national network of career academies to support the development of 81,000 NAF academy students across the country toward personal and professional success in high school, in higher education, and throughout their careers. MORE
France mentioned some cool education technology that had been developed at Purdue, called Signals - Stoplights for student success. Signals blends two key ideas: The patterns of student failure can be spotted early: much earlier than existing systems relying on failing midterms! And, get these signals to both students and faculty. This really made me think about students with disabilities. MORE
Students learn to code for free while donating skills to nonprofits | KSL.com : "In the 18 months since we launched, more than 300,000 people have signed up," Larson said. Many of these students have jobs and kids, and are trying to change careers. Already, hundreds of our students have already learned enough to go out and get software developer jobs." Since the beginning of Free Code Camp, student-developers have donated over $850,000 in free coding to nonprofits. MORE
College students devise apps for nonprofits | The Columbus Dispatch : The OSU students were among about 70 from 11 colleges participating in the event sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. It brings together college students who major in computer science, engineering and other technology fields to devise computer software solutions to problems that social-service organizations face MORE
This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. MORE
UC Santa Cruz students who participated in our volunteer pilot project— proofreading textbooks for our Bookshare collection—have done a fantastic job proofreading over a short period of time three entire textbooks! We’re grateful to Roberto and his students for their wonderful work. MORE
Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. but I got a good test drive because 23 students in my graduate seminar (Theory and Practice of Philanthropy) here at Arizona State University have been invited inside this spring semester to both learn about and hone the evaluation process. MORE
Often, young people see older adults in positions of power and success and think that in order to effect change they have to be of a certain age and status in society. But that’s not true at all. MORE
Student Related Topics VolunteerMark
FEBRUARY 7, 2015
Often, young people see older adults in positions of power and success and think that in order to effect change they have to be of a certain age and status in society. But that’s not true at all.
Byte Technology
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
There was a time when that annual rite of passage known as spring break meant one thing for nearly every college student: the chance to let loose—usually in a warm climate—and party down. So make concessions and appeals that allow the students to volunteer in groups.
SocialFish
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
————— Many college students are willingly without a landline, but few are without their social media in the palm of their hand. From Twitter, to Facebook, to Pinterest, there are a variety of ways to stay connected with the staff and student body.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 5, 2015
While brainstorming ideas for a fundraising event I have coming up, I tried to think of all the events I had been to and what I liked and remembered most about each of them. After some pondering, I realized that I couldn’t come up with much of anything. There wasn’t a single event that stood out to me. I couldn’t even think of the causes most of the events were supporting! This got me thinking. What could the organizations have done better to keep my attention?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. with a collection of over 126,000 books (and counting) that currently serves more than 148,000 members, including over 143,000 students. Qualifying students, however, represent but a small fraction of those who can benefit from accessible books. million students (15% of the U.S.
SocialFish
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Another interesting infographic from BachelorsDegreeOnline , using data from Educause’s ECAR Annual Study of Students and IT. Are you ready for when these undergrads become grads… and postgrads… and coming to you for professional development ?
Mobile Commons
JULY 1, 2014
College campuses nationwide are joining the mobile revolution as they realize that it is the best way to reach their students. Make a phone call and the student is unlikely to answer. But send a text, and there’s a 99% chance the student will read it.
Mobile Commons
MARCH 27, 2015
According to a new article by The New York Times , a light nudge can make a big impact in the lives of students. The study found that 70% of students who received the texts were likely to enroll in college, compared to 63% for those who did not receive the messages.
NetWits
JULY 11, 2012
Schools have a unique opportunity to build their Facebook following and stay connected with alumni due to the captive audience and deep relationships that are built with students, families and faculty. Get “Likes” from Students & Families. Past students sharing their stories.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
all too many students with print disabilities might not have the textbooks they need for class. However, students often don’t know what books they need until the first days of school—a hectic time when Bookshare receives thousands of book requests.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 17, 2013
UC Santa Cruz students who participated in our volunteer pilot project— proofreading textbooks for our Bookshare collection—have done a fantastic job proofreading over a short period of time three entire textbooks! We’re grateful to Roberto and his students for their wonderful work.
Mobile Commons
JUNE 15, 2015
Text messaging is the most popular means of communication for college students: studies show that people ages 18-29 text more than any other generation, and use their phones more for text messaging than anything else. Answer questions about student enrollment with text messaging.
Frogloop
APRIL 6, 2011
While close to 70% of US college students say that they don’t consider themselves to be politically engaged or politically active, 1/3 say online tools such as Facebook, YouTube, blogs and Twitter have greater impact than face to face advocacy, according to recent studies by Knowledge Networks on behalf of Harvard University's Institute of Politics.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 15, 2012
This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. The Poet application developed by DIAGRAM helps level the playing field by making otherwise inaccessible graphic content available for students and other readers who cannot read traditional books.
AFP Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Students Connect with Community by Providing Tech Help : The founder of Project SPARTA, Raulston seeks opportunities to match unmet technological needs in the Tallahassee nonprofit community with students eager to gain practical experience working in the information technology field. The great thing about SPARTA is that it provides students the ability to try multiple career opportunities until they find that one thing that ignites their passion,” Raulston said
NonProfit Hub
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Despite their blossoming independence, college students like to travel in packs. You could even get specific into their majors—for example, if you have some graphic designers or architecture students, you could have them work on an infographic for the week.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 29, 2011
That's why it's painful to hear about disputes over denying students with very real print disabilities access to these resources. We’ve already made a huge difference in the area of software for students with disabilities and for human rights and environmental organizations. million per year to provide accessible book services to students with qualifying print disabilities nationwide. serving students with print disabilities.
Have Fun - Do Good
AUGUST 13, 2013
A high school student called to ask if I would be in her school project: a video about carbon offsets. It''s only 12 minutes long, so give it a watch , and support a student filmmaker. A looooong time ago, in March 2007, I wrote a blog post, What Do You Think of Carbon Offsets?
VisionLink
JULY 28, 2015
The mission of NAF is to sustain a national network of career academies to support the development of 81,000 NAF academy students across the country toward personal and professional success in high school, in higher education, and throughout their careers.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 14, 2012
I greatly enjoy talking to students, and I am now in Ottawa, Canada, just having spoken to an incredible group of students, Engineers Without Borders Canada. I'm at the annual Canadian EWB conference (each of the EWB country groups is independent of the other), and there are hundreds and hundreds of students here. Mainly engineering students, but as EWB Canada has grown and matured, they've increased the size of their umbrella and welcome non-engineering students.
TechImpact
DECEMBER 24, 2013
ITWorks students graduate December 2013. Through the course of the program, ITWorks students get internship experience while they earn a professional certification in IT. Even on graduation, students had lessons to learn.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. Roughly 1–2 per cent of students in the United States meet these requirements.
AFP Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
College students contribute to growing business Nonprofit Hub | News | dailynebraskan.com : "University of Nebraska-Lincoln junior Angela Cuadros treats philanthropy like a job. Each week, there are the hours spent mentoring a 17-year-old girl and volunteering with Dance Marathon. And there’s her position as a resident assistant in Eastside Suites. But this August, Cuadros decided to take her interest for helping others into her professional life as well.
AFP Blog
APRIL 27, 2016
Students learn to code for free while donating skills to nonprofits | KSL.com : "In the 18 months since we launched, more than 300,000 people have signed up," Larson said. Many of these students have jobs and kids, and are trying to change careers. Already, hundreds of our students have already learned enough to go out and get software developer jobs." Since the beginning of Free Code Camp, student-developers have donated over $850,000 in free coding to nonprofits.
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
Visit Mexico where the CEGE Foundation uses donated Microsoft software like Expression Studio 4 to prepare university students for careers in information and communication technology. The TechSoup Global network has donated 9.7
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 29, 2010
I talk a lot about how technology can help create tremendous educational opportunities for students with print disabilities. Steffon, who attends Gadsden Community College in Gadsden, Alabama is a straight-A student who has made his college deans list each semester.
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 17, 2011
But I think it fits the graduating class of American Humanics (AH) students, all 18 of them. The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. As part of the dinner tradition, AH student leaders, Justin Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer of the AH Student Association, and Torrie Yerkovich, Senior Dinner Chair, planned and hosted the event.
AFP Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2013
College students devise apps for nonprofits | The Columbus Dispatch : The OSU students were among about 70 from 11 colleges participating in the event sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. It brings together college students who major in computer science, engineering and other technology fields to devise computer software solutions to problems that social-service organizations face
AFP Blog
MARCH 20, 2009
Is the Internet Stupefying Students?: "By By the professor’s rule, students in the English classes of Dr. Mark Bauerlein at Emory University must take notes by hand. Laptops must be turned off, he says, to ensure students focus on what’s happening in the room, rather than on what’s floating around cyberspace.“In In half of those screens, they’re on Facebook,” Bauerlein says of the situation in other
Mobile Commons
JULY 1, 2014
College campuses nationwide are joining the mobile revolution as they realize that it is the best way to reach their students. Make a phone call and a student is unlikely to answer. But send a text, and there’s a 99% chance a student will read it. Many college students don’t even know where to pick up their mail! But send a text, and a student will be 40 times more likely to respond to you than if they received an email. Texting Makes Better Students.
AFP Blog
JANUARY 26, 2015
Why Journalism Students Need a Baseline Understanding of Coding | Mediashift | PBS : ". If we don’t expose our students to this — students we want to lead the next generation of journalism and communication — we are doing them a disservice. In fact, it would be smart for universities to add a general coding class to the core curriculum required of students in all fields.
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 4, 2011
Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. but I got a good test drive because 23 students in my graduate seminar (Theory and Practice of Philanthropy) here at Arizona State University have been invited inside this spring semester to both learn about and hone the evaluation process.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 13, 2009
HuffPo recently published my first post, Disabled Students Need Accessible Books. It's great to be able to bring this kind of attention to our work at Bookshare helping students with print disabilities. The Huffington Post recently invited me to become a guest blogger, based on a connection to Arianna Huffington from the Craigslist Nonprofit Boot Camp.
AFP Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Student organization connects non-profits with app development : "Two seniors are vying to save nonprofits thousands of dollars. Co-founded by Wharton and Engineering senior Dhruv Maheshwari and Engineering senior Ali Altaf, Hack4Impact connects student developer talent with nonprofit organizations free of charge.
AFP Blog
JUNE 12, 2014
Tech Journey returns for second year with more students, stronger mission - Silicon Prairie News : Last year Tony Kioko and a team of other local IT professionals did what, at the time, seemed impossible. They created a nonprofit—Tech Journey—to help empower Des Moines students with limited access to resources to take an interest in technology.
ASU Lodestar Center
JANUARY 18, 2017
Twenty-two students from the ASU Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Student Association joined hundreds of the brightest future nonprofit professionals from 33 campuses across the country. Our students did a tremendous job of being leaders and carrying themselves with pride.
AFP Blog
MAY 28, 2013
High school students build electric car powered by social media - Chicago Tribune : High school students have turned a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia into an all-electric car that is powered by tweets, shares, posts and likes. Turning tweets into watts will take the at-risk students from Kansas City to Washington, D.C.
Mobile Commons
AUGUST 18, 2015
One of the big firsts that college students face is learning how to be responsible for their personal wellness. These two factors make text messaging the perfect choice for helping college students take charge of their own well being.
Tech Soup Blog
AUGUST 14, 2013
This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.
AFP Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
Wired Campus: After Shooting, Students Connect Through Facebook - Chronicle.com: "After Shooting, Students Connect Through FacebookIn the wake of the shooting at Northern Illinois University, numerous groups commemorating the event have already cropped up on Facebook.On one of the largest groups, “Pray for Northern Illinois University Students and Families,” hundreds of students from different
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