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Gen Z Hearts AHA

Connection Cafe

Children are an extremely important constituent to their mission because by teaching youth to be active and healthy at these critical early ages, they can help pass this message along. Jump Rope For Heart and Hoops For Heart are two service learning projects that educate and create awareness among teachers, parents and students ages 7-14.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. The descriptions of the courses and teaching approach very much resonated with all the work I've done "TechnoStress" over the years. So for teaching robotics, he starts with an actual object.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. In January, NMC released The Horizon Report , a research-oriented effort to identify emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Opposing Salesforce.com attempt to TM "Social Enterprise"

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Hiring people.

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