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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Cornell I went to the intergenerational, national nonprofit called Magic Me. Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. Use clear and appropriate writing styles to describe the ideas.

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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

Museum 2.0

The never-quite-opened National History Museum of the Netherlands created an innovative vending machine for historic objects, which traveled to festivals and urban centers for people to add their memories. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

Museum 2.0

NISE-NET is probably the single largest investment that the National Science Foundation has made in informal learning, with the intention of spreading knowledge about nano science. My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that.

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What’s in a name? How America’s place-renaming moment impacts people

Fast Company Tech

From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America , to the return of Forts Bragg and Benning and the newly re-renamed Mount McKinley in Alaskas Denali National Park, we are witnessing a consequential shift in the politics of place naming. The latest place renamings are already affecting the classroom experience.

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