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Seven Ways Your Organization can Put Privacy Into Practice – and Why

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From restricting wireless access points to encrypting data on your organization’s portable laptops, keeping a secure environment is an integral part of preventing data leakage and upholding your constituents’ trust. This applies both in building friendships and in building business, and the learning starts right at home and in the classroom.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Betsy, a former teacher with a Master's in Education and Learning Disabilities, has a keen understanding of what educators need to adopt Bookshare.org and other technology in the classroom.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

[The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. Parents want the kids to have that opportunity to learn, but sometimes parents are not always the best teachers," says Bricker.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. It starts in the home.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program. MacArthur Foundation.

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