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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

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To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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Transmedia Storytelling and Co-Creation Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is also applicable to organizations working in a networked way as well as networks of organizations. Does your organization have access to the technology tools and skills as well as the capacity to collaborate beyond your organization's firewall? The diagram below is Robin Good's Collaborative Map of Online Collaboration Tools.

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

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Gaming scenarios: This scenario involves testing a learner’s skills using a gamified, perhaps less realistic application of the knowledge. Because scenarios are immersive, learners can practice the application of skills in a no-consequence environment. Group Collaboration with Feedback.

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Wiki Wiki Means Quickly in Hawaiin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have set up a wiki for the event on wikispaces, my favorite hosted wiki application. (I " My colleague, Vicky Davis , is leading a session at the K-12 Online Conference on wikis in the classroom. Amy Gahran's wiki for blogher posts - to organize them from the huge tag stream that came out of the conference.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms. At first, I liked it a lot.